General – Bednar.co

Images have been moved back home

Back when I first started this blog I hosted the images with the WordPress Media Library. Then I found a cool service called B2 Backblaze which works like Amazon S3, but at a fraction of the cost. I was not able to find a huge need for the service, but I decided to try offloading the blog images there to allow for quick access and to take the load off of the server.

However, over the years, I have found it to be tedious to upload the images on B2, grab the URL, and put it in the blog. So late last year I decided to go back to the WordPress Image Library. The biggest problem though were that I had almost 250 images stored in B2 and had to migrate all of them back to WordPress eventually.

Well I am glad to update that effort is finally done. I did not have that many posts, but uploading the images and fixing the links too a long time to complete. It also was a good time reviewing all of my old posts and reminiscing. I am still using B2 to store my website backups, but all of my files are not accessible to the outside world anymore.

2018 Recap

As the year shortly comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on what has happened over the last year because I feel like it has been extensive. My goal for next year is to do a better job documenting these things as they happen so I don’t forget them. Life does come at you fast, so it easy to to lose track of the details and what is really important.

In March, I started a new job. After nearly ten years at my prior employer it was time to move on. This would be my second professional job and a lot of anticipation came with it. I would join a much larger company with many new opportunities.

In April I got married to the love of my life. We had a great time out in Las Vegas. I can’t wait to good back this upcoming April to celebrate our one year anniversary.

During the spring and summer I did a lot of flying with my new job. I tried to blog about these trips, but many were non eventful or I didn’t have time. Through the year I logged 98 flights, just shy of 100. I hope to break the 100 mark in 2019.

In July we went to Memphis to see my sister and also to Minneapolis to see my brother-in-law and new niece! Outside of these trips we didn’t do much vacationing, so I hope to change that next year.

Fall was nothing too special, just the same as the rest of the year. My travel started to curtail a bit, so I wasn’t able to hit Platinum Pro on American Airlines, but hope to be able to next year.

In December, my wife also got a new job. I think it will be a great opportunity for her to grow her career and I am very proud of her for making the jump.

Finally Spring in Columbus

On Friday, the weather in Columbus was actually nice for a change. So, before the weather decided we had too much of a nice thing and change on us, we took a walk downtown along the Scioto Mile. I grabbed a few pictures before it got too dark.

The first picture is of the Main Street Bridge, along with Miranova Place, and the CoverMyMeds building.

Summer Recap

This post has been on my mind for a while, but I just never got around to making it. I have been super busy lately and my time on the computer outside of work is very rare these days. That may be good or bad. Anyhow, I just want to make a summary of the summer so that I don’t forget it in the future if anything else.

June: This month started off well and the first week in I finally got a house! It was my seventh attempt, but I finally got one that accepted my offer and I was in contract. However, the very next week I started feeling awful and it got to the point where I decided I needed to go to a doctor. I thought it might be the flu but it turns out I had mono. That’s something you are supposed to get when you are in K-12 and here I am almost 30 getting mono. Just my luck! The first three weeks were pretty awful but after that the symptoms started to tapper off. I hope that they will find a vaccine for this sometime in the future, but at least for me I will never have to deal with it again. June wrapped up with a business trip as well as the typical house buying activities.

July: July was very hot and by the middle of the month I had completed all of the stuff for my house and was now a home owner. I also made a much needed trip to IKEA. I can’t wait until it is in Columbus next year. Very exciting but also somewhat scary. Luckily there was not too much rain during August so I didn’t have to do much mowing. I did do a lot of spending though because as I found out my house needs many more things than apartment life needed. By now all my mono symptoms had vanished.

August: The start of August was a lot more of July just busy getting things I needed and doing things for the house. However soon enough high school football kicked off and that started to occupy my weekends. I also had two weddings in the span of a couple weeks. I did get to travel Wisconsin and see some old friends which was nice. About this time though I started to get my yard in shape after acquiring many yard tools.

September: Another wedding and more high school football. The Buckeyes were rolling up to this point which was great. The Browns were being awful which was expected. This was also my birthday month and I turned 30. I entered another decade of my life. This month also brings along fall and soon enough the weather will begin to dramatically change.

So that was a quick overview of June to September. It doesn’t seem like much in text but there was a lot packed into these months. I did take a lot of pictures to document the memories. In the future I hope to post more often and include those pictures to keep all the details straight.