On Work
I sometimes say "I want to work till I die", and people take it to mean that I want to "hustle forever" or "be a wage slave forever" etc. This is, of course, not what I…
Life
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Read-Aloud
Have a good pipeline of night-time reading lined up:…
DIY Chocolate Fondue
(Credit to my wife)…
Monthly recap -- Jun 2023
Major update(s) * Weekend trip to Yosemite * Tenaya Lodge * Tara's first time in the park * Small hikes Minor update(s) * Wee…
(Older) places to eat
While cleaning up old posts (more on which later ...), I found this, and ... it’s worth revisiting how these places come and go 1. Vive Sol 2. Curry pizza house 3. State of mind pizzeria 4. P…
Monthly recap: April 2023
Major updates A week in Switzerland * Zurich * Lucerne * Interlaken * Jungfrau and Harder Klum * Zermatt * Gornergrat…
Monthly Recap: March 2023
Major updates * Gave up on trying to set up a Minecraft server and just went with a 2-person “Realm” instead — works well! * Opened one of birthday gifts late — a toy microscope, but still good eno…
Monthly Recap: February 2023
Major updates Trip to Carmel where we stayed in an AirBnB in the woods * No internet: board games, reading, sleeping early * Fortunately got back in time before the storm closed the roads Tar…
Monthly recap (January 2023)
Major updates New year, new beginnings: joined a bunch of very interesting people doing very interesting work at Luminary Cloud Minor updates * Dishwasher, dryer and a toilet all failed on one we…
Annual recap — 2022
Family * Parents visited * Bunch of paperwork * Some IRS interaction * Citizenship (!) * Joint 39th birthday party Hiking…
Monthly Summary (December 2022)
Major updates * India trip to meet family * Decided to start at a new place post-Sigma (will follow-up with a post with details on each) Minor updates * Traded in my troublesome Subaru Out…
Monthly recap (November 2022)
Major updates * Moving on from Sigma (more on this later) * Trip to Kauai * Tara’s birthday Minor updates * Meeting various people, some after many years * Bunch of birthday p…