Fun with parking tickets in St. Louis
By Tim Lumpkins on December 8, 2012Read moreOn November 7, I received a parking ticket because I was parked on the wrong side of the street on street cleaning day. The city of St. Louis wanted payment of the $10 penalty within 15 days or the...
Lethargy will be the death of me
By Tim Lumpkins on December 7, 2012Read moreLethargy will probably be the death of me. I have a lot to do, but no motivation. One unfortunate effect of having free time is that I don’t feel intense pressure to work on anything. The intense feeling of...
Moving on
By Tim Lumpkins on December 3, 2012Read moreOctober 25th was my last day as a full-time employee at Webster University. I’d been there for a little over five years, and I’d been unhappy for about half of that time. I was unhappy for a number of...
Today’s Lesson: Don’t leave a banana in a plastic bag for a month
By Tim Lumpkins on November 30, 2012Read moreToday’s lesson is that you shouldn’t leave a banana in a plastic bag for a month unless you want lots of tiny, winged friends flying around your apartment. Don’t make the same mistake that I did. It’s not a...
Today’s Lesson: Double-check your site after you fiddle with it
By Tim Lumpkins on November 23, 2012Read moreToday’s lesson is that you really should double-check your work when you make updates or fiddle around with your site. About a week ago, I started building a website just so that I could learn PHP in a fun...
Today, I give thanks for 3 simple things
By Tim Lumpkins on November 22, 2012Read moreToday is Thanksgiving and today, I give thanks for 3 simple things: Friends and family I am thankful that I have a loving friends and family who have supported me when I’ve needed them the most. Without them, I...
New Additions
By Tim Lumpkins on September 10, 2012Read moreI spent a good chunk of the weekend organizing my portfolio. A few of my creations have been posted and more will be as I find a free minute here and there. There’s no posted link to my portfolio...
Update & getting back into the swing of things
By Tim Lumpkins on August 14, 2012Read moreI’ve not been posting much because grad school has taken a lot out of me in the last couple of months. Now that I’ve finished a couple of semesters, I think that I’m finally learning my limits. While I...