Hi, I’m Blaine. I enjoy reading, building software, hiking, making music, and playing games.
My wife and I, along with our two wonderful dogs, Willow and Piper, live in Salem, VA, USA in the beautiful Roanoke Valley of the Appalachian Mountains. I work remotely as a software engineer.
I’m a progressive democrat and secular humanist. I spend my freetime working for progressive change in local government.
Here you’ll find posts about my several hobbies, new projects I’m working on, political and business ramblings, and random stuff I enjoy.
April 19, 2025As a creative person I regularly find myself at odds with perfectionism. Sometimes it looks like researching an idea for months to ultimately park it on the shelf. Sometimes, but not often, I get the courage to just push in and try, for better or worse, regardless of the potential for failure.
Although completely rewarding, extracting and archiving long forgotten microcassette recordings was always a side tangent to a different goal, making microcassette tape loops.
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