Self

Major updates: * Started at a new place, Pure Storage … having a blast! * Visited my brother in San Diego (and saw the two-month baby!) Minor updates: * Tara getting a bit better at swimming, le…

Major updates * I guess the biggest highlight of this month was that it turned out to be my last month at Google after nearly eight years (!) there (might write more on that separately). Minor upda…

Major updates: * Spent the last week of December and the first week of January in India (also, a couple of days in Singapore). Mostly fun. Caught up with a lot of people. * Tara’s birthday party! A…

Spent a week in Kauai. The first few days were surprisingly windy and rainy, but … improved a lot towards the end. There is nothing better than floating on your back under the sun (can come pretty cl…

Some ups and downs this month … leaving out some things. One surprisingly good movie I saw this month was “Never let me go”, based on a book by the recent Nobel-prize winner, Kazuo Ishiguro. It’s alr…

(nothing much happened this month) Minor updates: * Went to Barnes and Noble with Tara for the first time (fun!) * Zume pizza party with our ex-neighbors * Meeting some friends * Kick-started jo…

Highlight: Went for a 5K run. Very slow, and a sore afterwards, but the first run of any sort after a year. Minor updates: * Tara’s daycare was closed for three days, and we went to Happy Hollows…

Highlight: I’d got tickets for the Monterey Bay Aquarium back in December, but finally went this weekend, at the end of July. Visiting after three years, and my favorites are always the jellyfish and…

Big highlight: Tara’s cousins were visiting. We went to San Francisco over a weekend, then drove further up north to a small beach town near Bodega Bay (my second good AirBnB experience; slightly les…

Big highlight: finally finished the 1000-piece puzzle I had been working on (will share a full album later). Sold my 7-year old second-hand Civic and bought a new Subaru Outback (so we can finally ta…