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A Tiny Hiatus and Elections
I haven’t updated since mid October. I had suspected that might happen when my workload expanded more rapidly than I had expected. Now that things are a bit more under control, lets talk about the rest of last month: PAS Retreat Every Area Development District in Kentucky has persons holding the same job title I…
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Kentucky Affordable Housing Conference 2013
Let me first get some musings out of the way: I love it when conferences have a twitter hash-tag with no intended use or purpose, it reminds me of the sort of pseudo embrace the practice of planning has often (but not always) given social media (we’ll use it, but we’re not sure if its…
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KY APA and the Awesomeness Mini-conference
Last update, Sept. 19th? Yikes! Since the 19th I attended the Kentucky APA conference down in Louisville and the Awesome Collective’s mini-conference in Covington, Ky. The government also shut down and the ACA’s health care exchanges went live. Its been a busy few weeks. Kentucky APA The Kentucky APA conference was held on Friday, September…
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October Training Smackdown
Beginning this week and continuing for the next month I’ll be heading off to various training, certifications, and seminars including CDBG, Affordable Housing, and KY APA. I’ll be doing my best to catalog things I learn, insights and anecdotes, as well as resources here. Because of that oncoming train-pocalypse, I have not made time like…
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Quantifying (and Qualifying) Self
Another recent hobby of mine is looking at data about my life. I think we can all agree that sometimes we just don’t remember things the way they happened. More often than not, this is observable in disagreements I have with my fiancee over various sequences of events. Given that problem, we become unreliable narrators of…
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Homebrewing
Another thing I’ll likely be writing about consistently is our home-brewing. By our, I refer to the list of people I collaborate with to brew beer: Rebecca (my fiancee) and I brew small all-grain batches (1 gallon) in our kitchen. Matt, Nikki, Mike, and Emily brew as a “guild” doing all grain batches. Rebecca, her…
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Tax Rate Calculations
Recently, I’ve been working on tax rate calculations for cities in Northern Kentucky. This is a yearly service the ADD provides for free. Kentucky cities and special districts utilize these tax rate calculations to ensure they receive at least the same amount of revenue each year from real property and tangible property taxes. This helps…
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Quitting a PhD
I’ve been contemplating for a while now what the first post should be after the “unfortunate change of hosting providers.” At the time, I was considered leaving my PhD program and trying to find a job as a planner. I ended up following through on that consideration and leaving the PhD program at UC shortly…
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An unfortunate change of hosting providers.
Due to a particularly poor set of circumstances surrounding my change of hosting providers, I lost all the data from my previous wordpress installation. I’m still in the process of attempting to recover the data, but prospects are beginning to look grim.
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Test Post
Boom.