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I read a lot of blogs and enjoy the wide variety of content: keeping up with family/friends, new gadgets, coding, building science, geeking out, etc. I've always thought about starting my own blog as mostly a way to write more, but a lack of content/focus and knowing myself well enough that I wouldn't be able to stick with blogging long enough if I had a short lapse of interest has kept me from embarking on the quest. But I was thinking about it more today that between my short VBA scripts, gadget testing, home automation, and even the occasional race report, I could probably put something together.

Just a quick blurb about me before I begin, I'm a data analyst working on energy efficiency in buildings, and I run. "Data analyst" isn't the most in vogue term, so data scientist, research analyst, statistical programmer, and the list can go on; use what you'd like. But "runner" is a pretty safe secondary title. I spend much of my time in Stata or VBA with a very small, but slowly growing, use of R. I've touched a number of other languages that I could probably remember if I cared enough to write them down, but at this point I'm just thinking of topics that I may write about. Python will likely appear with growing frequency over time.

A lot of my early posts will probably involve going through my personal.xlsb macro list -- a suite of tools I use frequently in Excel to make my life easy. I've even added a couple custom ribbon bar menus to add point-and-click ease to a lot of the macros, and the most used ones get a custom keyboard shortcut (I shy away from the mouse whenever possible).

So that's it for now. I'm not sure how many posts I'll do per week/month/whatever and it probably won't be a regular frequency anyway, but I'm hoping I can share a lot of code, tips/tricks, races, and whatever else might come up.