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I turned 26 in February. At my 25th birthday, I expected to have a bit of a quarter-life crisis, and that never really came. However on the first anniversary of my expected quarter-life crisis, I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s important to me. One of my recurring thoughts relates to health. I thought I […]
Year In Review As 2017 closes down, I’d like to reflect on the events of the past year. I visited New England for the first time, changed roles at work, suffered a fairly serious head injury (and recovered), crossed a few items off my bucket list and made countless other memories. Happenings Activities Canoe and […]
by Charlotte Perkins I recently heard The Yellow Wall-Paper (dash included by the author) on the podcast Stuff You Should Know. The novella (or short story) depicts a woman married to a physician in the year 1892. Throughout the story the woman slowly becomes mad, obsessed with the wallpaper of the a room in which […]
One of my responsibilities in producing software at Epic is planning for projects. This involves considering: Man-hours required to complete a given project spread across stages of design, development, code review and testing A projected deadline based on the project’s scope and number of full time employees This is not something that my company has […]
My cousin Justin and his wife Missy recently gave birth to an adorable 7lb 11oz baby Gradyn Chase Games. He is the first of my cousins to have a child and I’m super excited for him. The name Gradyn (or Grady as they intend to call him) seemed particularly unique to me and got me […]
The election of our new President, Donald Trump, has greatly impacted the day-to-day life at work for my team and I. Once-sidelined plans for the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to contract with Epic to support their Medical Appointment Scheduling System (MASS) were placed back on the table in February 2017 when the new Secretary […]
I want to use this post as a way to add an ongoing and updates list of favorite articles. Here’s how I intend this page to work (if it doesn’t as of this posting, then, well, I haven’t gotten around to it yet: Below you’ll see a list. That list will be sorted chronologically by […]
Debugging the Development Process is a book written by Steve Maguire and published by Microsoft Press in 1994. I happened upon this book while moving offices in my company and noticed someone was giving it away. I grabbed it and have found that it has great advice, even if it was published in what feels […]
Notes Below you will find notes I took using my iPad’s Notability application. I find this app to be incredibly valuable and worth the mere dollars I paid for it. Please feel free to read through my notes and shoot me any questions you may have in the comments. I took this algorithms class with […]
For those who aren’t well versed in the world of Healthcare IT an EMR system install is often known as a Go-Live, which occurs when a hospital or clinic “goes live” on a new software suite. An electronic medical record (EMR) is a digital version of the traditional paper-based medical record for an individual. The […]
In the Fall of 2014 I went apple picking with a few friends at Velkommen til Eplegaarden, “da apple orchard vit da Norvegian exposure”. I’d like to say I picked a full bushel of Apples, but that was certainly not the case. A bushel is defined as: a unit of dry measure for grain, fruit, […]
Life with Sweaty Palms If you have sweaty hands, sweaty feet or sweaty anything, you know the huge burden on quality of life that it can be. I have had sweaty hands (palms) and feet for as long as I can remember–at the very least since late elementary school. The average reader may look at […]