Monthly recap (November 2019)
Major updates: * Tara turned Five! :-) * Went for a Frozen 2 viewing with her and her friends * A pump-it-up party :-| Minor updates: * Home maintenance: dryer had to be repaired, added a t…
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Monthly recap (October 2019)
Major updates: * Home with Tara for a week * Trick-or-treating with Tara 😀 * Poor sleep discipline 😔 Minor updates: * Finally got a “Real ID” * Met up with friends a couple of times * D…
Random synchronicity
1. There’s a particular house with a very elaborate Halloween setup, with movie scene recreations, and a screen playing various scenes. I take a few pics when I pass it once, about a week ago, settin…
Quick rules for personal technology
(Edit: found this while cleaning old posts, must be about 2-3 years ago, but seems very relevant still 😀) Bunch of suggestions from me, take it or leave it: * get off social media * no more free…
Monthly recap (Sep 2019)
Minor updates: * A team offsite that involved sailing in the bay (on the USA-76) * Some frustration with the limited AT&T data plan that I have * Went for a Gulzar event * Rapunzel at the Pla…
Notion
I've always been prone to trying out new apps in the note-taking, information-herding, organizing, brain-storming, storing-and-finding space, not because I like shiny new things (I used to like sh…
Monthly recap (August 2019)
Major updates: * Towards the end of the month, we took a trip to Kauai * Got some work done in our kitchen (tiling the floor) Minor updates: * Started out mildly embarrassing but ended rathe…
Monthly recap (July 2019)
Major updates: - Laguna Beach vacation - Accepted an offer from Confluent, Joined on the 22nd! - Surprise birthday party for me (again) by Shivi - A friend’s mother passed away, attended the funeral…
Retro-active content
Just finished importing two old Tumblr blogs (each from roughly 4-5 years ago), one under my name and one ... not. So there's suddenly a lot more content at this blog, in 2014-2015 ! (of course,…
Monthly recap (June 2019)
Major updates: * Trip to Maui (again) … this time featuring (1) hiking, and (2) close encounters with sea turtles * Two movies with Tara: Secret Life of Pets 2, and Toy Story 4 * One of our friend…
Rediscovering an older self-version
I've started a new blog or a new online journal so many times, some private, some public, that I've really lost track of all of them. This is mildly complicated because some of them were pseud…
Monthly recap (May 2019)
Major updates: * Some backyard spruce-up: bird feeders, and my first gardening experience, a pot of badly-planted yet hardy Marigold * New fun activity with Tara: “quilting on paper” (more on that…