Matt Sandy's Blog

As some of you know, I have been working from a $300 netbook for the past year whenever I travel. The netbook is fine for editing text and checking email, but falls short when trying to handle anything more. Luckily I can code most things without the help of an IDE, but coding an image [...]

This is a long overdue post. I am visiting Phoenix, and have been for a while now. I spent Christmas, New Years, and today down here. This was the first Christmas without Grandma, and it was the white elephant in the room for quite a while. Not going into sad things here, because why leave [...]

I took some photos for Sunny because she wanted to see what Minneapolis looked like this time of year. Looks like spring still has a ways to go to get Minneapolis ready for summer. I definitely had fun getting out of the apartment. Thank you Sunny for giving me a reason to go take some [...]

The warm weather has returned to Minneapolis and brought with some definite smiles. The people I have seen while out biking seem happier, and I can see why. The snow has become just a memory and the skies have only allowed for rain to fall. I have still been a bit cooped up writing code [...]

I thought I would be updating this more, but I have been incredibly busy with work, but I think most of the stress is finally tapering off. Today I deposited the first check of my new raise, and am typing this entry out while listening to The Sunset Tree by The Mountain Goats on my [...]

I took another trip to California, this time with Norman. It was a pretty crazy day hours. We left at midnight, got to Sunny’s around 6 hours later, left her place, and then ended up Morgan’s by the end of the day. I think exhaustion hit Norman and I pretty bad, because we ended up [...]

Norman arrived on the 3rd and I totally forgot to take photos when he came up to Minneapolis for a visit, but we did have a chance to look through some old photos of Phoenix from back in the day. He was able to take a look at the grad program offered by Minnesota State [...]

Story time for future Matt. On the 15th of this month I headed to California to see about a girl. While at Fyf Fest Fran introduced someone named Sunshine in a pleasantly diabolical scheme to provide me with a reason to move to California. She did freelance design work and had a sweet smile. It [...]

I have realized writing at night isn’t my strong suite, so this is me working on correcting my poor night-owl writing skills. I figured this would be a good time to write about my day with Norman. We finally saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World which was AMAZING! Before the movie went over to Green [...]

Ex showed up unannounced to get her stuff and she didn’t even pick up her plant that she has guilt tripped me into watering for the past month. Went for a ride, got a flat, broke a tire lever, broke my pump (at 50psi no less). To top it off the work server turned off [...]