Posts on Justin Vollmer

After over a year of weekly notes, I’ve decided to place the series on indefinite hiatus.

Back to the office this week, with some storm spotter training on the weekend, and a bit of gaming!

Holy Week, 2026!

Back to a busier week, combined with preparations for Easter!

This was an overall pretty standard week for me… Goal Progress Books: 2/18 📚 Photos digitized: 15/500 🖼️ Work Similar to last week, this week at work was also quieter than normal, due to both vacations and work trips.

Daylight Savings Time has arrived!

For the first time in a while, I got to spend at least one day this week heads-down on a project!

Another busy week, with a fun team dinner on Thursday to break it up!

Another short entry this week; keeping busy at work, and unfortunately not spending a ton of time on personal projects.

Short entry this week; I’ve been busy with work/personal projects and I don’t have much to share… Goal Progress Books: 2/18 📚 Photos digitized: 5/500 🖼️ Workouts: 3/7 💪 GTD reviews: 3/7 daily, pending weekly Work This week was particularly busy with proje…

At long last, my schedule started slowing down this week!

This week actually ended up busier than the last, though unlike last week it was primarily during office hours. 🤔 Goal Progress Books: 2/18 📚 Photos digitized: 3/500 🖼️ Workouts: 4/7 💪 GTD reviews: 3/7 daily, pending weekly Work Somehow my meeting load at…

This week’s update might be even shorter than last… with Winter Conference going on, my week was heavily consumed by work discussions and dinners.

Shorter post this week… a lot has been going on, but mostly work-related, and therefore not much to share here… Goal Progress Books: 1/18 📚 Photos digitized: 3/500 🖼️ Workouts: 3/7 💪 GTD reviews: 5/7 daily, weekly pending Work This week has been a whirlwi…

One full week of 2026 over already?

All the cool kids, or at least Robb, Matt, and Jan-Lukas are updating their app defaults, something that started in the blogosphere back in 2023.

First weekly note of the new year!

I did a little review, and unless I’ve missed a post somewhere, I’ve only once written a public “New Year’s Resolutions”.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings That remains one of my favorite quotes.

I’ve seen a number of other bloggers writing year-end book reviews and commentary on what they read (shoutout specifically to Manu, SuperBetsy, and Jeremy Keith), and I decided to join the fun!

Week in Review It’s the last full week of the year!

Following my pattern from yesterday, for Christmas this year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the lyrics of one of my favorite Christmas hymns: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come (LSB 358) 1 “From heav’n above to earth I come to bear good news to

For Christmas Eve this year, I thought I’d take the opportunity to post the lyrics of one of my favorite Advent hymns: What Hope!

Week in Review It’s the last week before Christmas!

Week in Review Monday and Tuesday were pretty normal, with meetings scattered throughout the day.

This past week largely saw a return to my normal schedule.

Yesterday afternoon in the office, one of my coworkers asked me (paraphrasing) how I back up my photos so that everything isn’t only in iCloud, and what I would recommend that she do.

This week I’m combining two posts into one (25.46 and 25.47), as I was a) delayed writing last week’s post, and b) it was looking short anyhow.

Over lunch, some colleagues and I were discussing why Christmas music is its own genre, with specific sounds.

Welcome to weekly note number 45 for 2025!

This week’s post will be fairly short.

Welcome to my 43rd weekly note post!

This week’s update might be even shorter than last week’s, although with a few twists!

I think I’ll keep this week’s update short and sweet. 🙂 A majority of this week in-office was spent in user acceptance testing of the new systems.

After being gone all of last week, it was nice to be home and in a little bit more of a normal routine this week!

This week was one of my busier in a while, as I was in-office on Monday morning, then traveled Monday afternoon/evening to Fargo, ND for some meetings with colleagues based out of our office there.

This week will once again be a shorter post, as a majority of the week followed my normal patterns work/life patterns.

This week’s post is a bit shorter than the last few (which in general isn’t bad in my opinion).

This week turned out to include a nice mix of work projects, local events, and some quality time experimenting with new tools.

This week turned out to be an interesting mix of holiday productivity, server upgrades, good food, and diving deeper into some AI tools (a phrase I never thought I’d write).

It’s been another week already?

This week was mostly back to my normal routine, with a few bright spots that made it memorable.

After a week away, this week it was back to the office, and a semi-normal schedule.

The past week was both more and less eventful than normal.

I promise I’m not a food blogger, nor am I aspiring to be one, but I like to take photos of tasty food when I’m out, and I was out to eat with coworkers a few times this week, and so… this week’s update is going to include some food photos. 😂 Monday was o…

Overall, the past week has been pretty standard, without much to write about.

This week we had a coworker from Fargo visiting our office, so Monday saw an earlier morning than normal in the office, anticipating their arrival.

This week’s update will be a little shorter than normal, as nothing overly eventful occurred.

With a shortened week this week (thanks to Independence Day on Friday), my normal work week was both shortened, but simultaneously filled with a few extra meetings as everything was compacted into 4 days.

Monday of this week I opted to work remotely, mostly due to remote meetings, and a single in-person meeting at our manufacturing facility, which is closer to my house.