Family
- Parents visited
- Bunch of paperwork
- Some IRS interaction
- Citizenship (!)
- Joint 39th birthday party
Hiking
- Panorama trail (discovered the “open space preserves”)
- Arastradero Preserve
Small visits
- Children’s Discovery Museum (x2)
- Palo Alto Zoo (via a birthday party)
- Taj Mahal (Agra trip)
- Camera Museo, Aravali Biodiversity Park (Gurgaon)
- Kinokuniya
Longer trips
- Kauai
- Big Island
- San Diego: Legoland, Disneyland, California Adventure (!)
- Los Cabos
- Carmel
Activities
- Playing with magnets and iron filings
- Found an old board of Go
- Bit of Tennis playing
- Board games (Dixit, Ticket to ride), card games (Go Fish)
Notable Eating
- Hawaii: Kuleana Rum Shack, Merriman’s
- Vive Sol (many times)
- New places: HiroNori, Kusan, Tilak, Little Blue Door
- India: Kitchens of Awadh(Gurgaon), Sana-Dige (Chanakyapuri), Peshawari(ITC Mughal)
Me
- Went for a 10K race after a long time
- Mixed year at work
- Discovered a new Barnes & Noble location (Redwood City) and a new used books store (Menlo Park)
- Catching up & meeting with various people
Exploring/making
- Tweaks to personal website/blog
- Tinkering with Urbit, Darklang, Mathematica
- Made a small puzzle RPG
Home
- Living-room refactor, painting, curtains
- Lots of car trouble with the Subaru; trade-in for an X3
- Carpet cleaning
- Minor changes: Nest cams, wifi routers
Tara
- Birthday at Little Gym
- Weekly gymnastics here
- Apps: Minecraft, codeSpark
- Swimming
- Things that didn’t work out: Skateboard, T-Ball
- Things that did work out: Chess
- Fun little habit: playing Hangman with characters from Disney/Harry Potter
- Peninsula Youth Theater (summer camp)
- Some unintended gluten intolerance
- Some school tours for next year
- Various playdates
Reading/listening
- Audiobooks (me):
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
- Plato’s Republic
- The Dawn of Everything
- The Return of Holy Russia
- The Red Book
- Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carrol
- Audiobooks (Tara):
- Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire)
- Wings of Fire (books 1-3)
- Reading (with Tara):
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Mysterious Benedict Society
- Reading (me):
- Nemo (Alan Moore)
- The Untethered Soul
- Against the Day (finally completed!)
Watching
- Animated:
- Big City Greens
- Re-watched
- All of Harry Potter 1-5
- Edge of Tomorrow (on the plane)
- Nightmare before Christmas (“family viewing”)
- Midnight in Paris
- In the hall
- Marcel the Shell
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Misc streaming
- Glass Onion
- Shaun the sheep
- Troll, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Bullet Train (weekend binge)
- Where the Crawdads sing
- The greatest Showman
- “The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window” (very forgettable, but it led to us purchasing the same wine opener)
- Drive My Car
- Death on the Nile (nowhere close to the original)
- Dropout, Inventing Anna
- Moonfall (went too far)
- My Little Pony: New generation (disappointing)
- Stranger Things (latest season)
- Abbot Elementary (loved it)
- With Tara
- Rings of Power (colossal letdown)
- Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
- Junior baking show
- National Geographic wildlife documentaries
Resolutions
- Better sleep (long elusive)
- Minimal “good habits” around physical/mental health