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First 1/2 Marathon (race)

Mar 04, 2023

First 1/2 Marathon (race)

Today I got to run in the Berry 1/2 marathon and am very pleased with an official time of 1:51:46 despite injury and illness the last few months. I’ve been running (1) half-marathon every month since moving to Rome - and today was #30 in a row! Running has been a journey for me, and hopefully there is a lot left in that journey in the future 🏅

Thawing out ❄️

Feb 20, 2023

Thawing out ❄️

A lot has happened since I last updated this blog! Yasmeen has officially signed her contract to start as a board-certified physician in family medicine on Sept 1st! I started a Staff Engineering role at Mailchimp (Intuit) last August, and have really been enjoying some of the cutting edge work we're doing on our team. Naveed is reading, writing, playing soccer...really doing it all! Soraya is walking, talking, and ready to start school once we move back to Norcross around July! My dad and step-mom moved close to Yasmeen's parents in Norcross, so we're very excited to join the party after residency wraps up in June. I'm working on learning Go and AWS through my new project https://api.choregg.com. I'll try and update the blog again soon, but life is moving quickly right now!

Soraya turns 1! 🎂

May 23, 2022

Soraya turns 1! 🎂

Our baby girl turned 1! We had a small get together (really more of Naveed's friends than Soraya's) and are so happy with these two little monsters. Yasmeen is wrapping up her 2nd year of residency - which means no more nights / weekend shifts and we'll all have a bit more time together. Spring is in the air! We set out the bird feeders and hanging plants this weekend - and are ready for some fun days in the sprinkler.

Spring is in the air

Apr 15, 2022

Spring is in the air

Time for shorts and short-sleeves over here in NE GA! We've been enjoying hiking with our friends, family runs with the stroller, and gardening / cleaning up the yard the last few weeks and it's starting to pay off! Soraya turns 1 year old next month, and we are so excited! Naveed is really starting to read well and is obsessed with PS5 (my fault) - we love playing Elden Ring and Hyrule Warriors together <3. Yasmeen starts 3rd year in July, and we are so excited to have so much of her time back. I've been painting again, so hopefully more art to upload soon. Lots to look forward to!

Good day sunshine!

Mar 18, 2022

Good day sunshine!

It's starting to thaw out over here in Floyd County and we've had some of the most beautiful days of the year so far this week. It's been sad to see some of my favorite co-workers leaving for other opportunities, but the market is great right now and I'm really excited to see some of the paths these younger folks take. Yasmeen is wrapping up her time as a 2nd year, and we're really looking forward to 3rd year of residency where we will get a lot of her time back. Until then - keep on truckin. Soraya is 10 months and Naveed is coming up on 4.5 years old, so we're having more fun with these kiddos than ever right now.

New website!

Feb 21, 2022

New website!

Welcome to version 2 of my site! I think I've finished porting over most of my vanilla NextJS site to a Sanity.Io implementation and it has already been life changing. Now I can update the blog from my phone - so hopefully I'll update more often 😂. Every one is doing well - we are all just working hard. Soraya and her brother grow more amazing every day. We are very lucky.

Welcome Soraya!

Oct 14, 2021

Welcome Soraya!

We want to welcome our sweet baby girl, Soraya Elizabeth Shariff-Shay, into the world! She came on May 14th, 2021 and weighed just over 6lbs. Naveed has turned out to be the best big brother I've ever seen, and loves his sister more than his mom & dad sometimes! I am so excited to see them grow up together, and feel our family is finally complete 😄. In other news - my running is going great. I hit 40 miles in a week last week, and have broken my goal of 25mi/week for 5 weeks in a row! It really does a lot to help with other stressors such as Mailchimp getting acquired by Intuit and Yasmeen's job in general haha, but we're making it!

8 months later...

Mar 04, 2021

8 months later...

Wow I can't believe it's already been 8 months since my last post 😂. Let's see..what's new...Yasmeen is 6.5 months pregnant with a baby girl who is due in early June! Naveed is doing amazingly well in school and we've almost made it through the whole school year without anyone getting sick 🤞. We are very fortunate for that when so many others have been lost in this terrible time. Yasmeen is working harder than ever and I'm trying to up my running game a bit before the new baby comes and I lack all sleep. I'll try and update this with a bit better frequency.

First Day of School!

Jul 30, 2020

First Day of School!

Today was my son Naveed's first day of school - and while it had a rough start - I have to give it to the kid because he was one of the only ones who didn't cry when we dropped him off and wasn't crying when we picked him up. That's my big boy! We're going to miss Claudia hanging out with us over here, but hopefully we'll all hang a lot since COVID is still shutting life down right now.

Under Construction

Jul 28, 2020

Under Construction

Hi! My name is Danny Shay and this is my personal website. I'm still doing a lot of work to build out this site, so please bear with me while I add the last few sections. I'll be updating this blog from time to time - so please come back soon for more updates!