On “old” songs
Obviously, my songs were new and my parents’ songs were old, but I found myself listening to some music today and suddenly realized all of it was around 25 years or more in the past, which is (just fo…
Life
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A new change
I joined Pure Storage in the beginning of last year, and felt like it was one of the best year of my life, for numerous reasons: * Learning to live outside “the Google bubble” * Meeting a bunch of…
Library haul (Jun 2019)
Guess we got a bit greedy there ...…
Current library haul
Plumbing adventures
About a month ago, the faucet in one of the bathrooms started leaking. I ignored it, until I couldn’t … and then I turned off the water supply to the faucet, thinking I’d get to it later. All I was a…
Learning about local budgets
On a weekend-stay-over in Monterey recently, I saw some poster mentioning changes in the county budget and realized I had no perspective of the "order of magnitude" of this. Looked it up, a…
Adventures with exhaust fans
This might be downright trivial for a lot of people, but it was an ”Achievement Unlocked” moment for me. There was a Nutone exhaust fan in our bathroom that was really loud, as in louder than any sou…
Where can I get these alphabet blocks? :-(
I had bought some blocks a couple of years ago (too early!) and now that Tara’s going to be three, dusted them off to really use them for alphabets instead of just "blocks for a tower". Of…
Monthly recap (July 2015)
(Intended to make up for an absence of Facebook, and for personal archival ... this one is rushed, will do a better job next month!) Yosemite was the first long-ish "go somewhere and stay there…