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The "modern" age of cameras
My mom has been making movies for us from the pictures and videos we give her of our son and she is quite good at it. As we were viewing some of the videos lately, I noticed the image quality of the older videos was pretty poor. Just over 4 years ago, we got a Pentax Optio S5i to replace our Olympus Digital Stylus. The Pentax as a great camera for its time and was quite compact. However, fast forward several years and then we started to see that the 320x240 videos were pretty bad. After seeing a review of the Flip Ultra, I decided to get one just for video. That brought us up to 640x480. Wow, a 4x increase in resolution! We were still at 5 megapixel for still images, but video was better, not great.
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Paperless on sale until Sunday!
Paperless, the new name for ReceiptWallet, is on sale until Sunday (5/17) for $34.95. It has the new branding on it, but it's still my beloved ReceiptWallet! Additional features will be coming and this is a great opportunity for those that haven't already committed to becoming organized to start.
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Running again
I've been running on and off for more than a decade. I've used it as a way to relieve stress and by running 2 marathons, proved to myself that I can accomplish physical goals that we're unimaginable to me years ago. After my last marathon, almost 2 years ago, I haven't run very consistently. My son is now 2 and I feel guilty about running as I should be spending time with him. However, I do need time for myself. To that end, about 6 weeks ago (maybe longer), I started running every other day. I've been doing a decent job keeping this up, only missing a few days which I just made up the next day. While I'd like to run 4 days a week consistently, this every other day schedule is working out quite well. My runs are 3-5 miles and take 30-50 minutes (I'm not back down to a 9 minute mile) which is enough to get my heart going, but doesn't take that much time that I feel guilty about knocking off from work early and still get back in time to walk the dog.
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Working smarter, not harder
Work has been the focus of my life for a long time, especially the 5.5 years prior to my new job. Being a self-employed contractor meant that every hour I worked, I got paid. Then when I started ReceiptWallet, I had to not only do my contract work, I had to handle support and development of ReceiptWallet which took up more time.