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Another Month in Lockdown
Misadventures in Food There’s been a few snowstorms in the past month, so we’re staying in. And cooking a bit more than usual too. For valentine’s day I made a mille crepe cake with some flash-f...
Same Sh*t Different Year
The new strains Pretty much all my medical professional friends got their vaccines (including some here), which was great; but the administration of the next phase is so muddled. We heard stori...
Year-end survey for 2020
1. What did you do in 2020 that you’d never done before? Zoom 2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No resolutions 3. Did anyone close to you give bir...
Moving to an Online Existence
Silver Linings With a pair of vaccines having been approved, here and cases spiking everywhere post-Thanksgiving, we have been hunkering down more: we don’t want to be 林美香. A few weeks before Th...
Work/Life Balance
Streaming concert When Hallie IV died, I started using La Professeure’s hand-me-down Dell desktop from 2006 as my personal computer. I still use it for some work, like editing sound files or vid...
Make the Right Call
Out of a job During the summer, La Professeure’s school was scrambling to prepare for a school year with Covid, and with conflicting directions about how much in-person instructions there would ...
Music in the Time of Covid
“Live” concert Our music organisation partnered with a startup company/club that “networks” people who love music and music organisations. I don’t know what that means - I have read their descri...
Coping with the Lockdown
Heatwave When we moved into the house, the inspector had told us that our central A/C would be due for replacement any time. We even got a few thousand dollars knocked off from our purchase pric...
Misadventures of Covid 19 Lockdown
Disney ride We stayed in our house for the most part during the first month of the pandemic lock-down. The only time we left the house was to take our daily walks around the neighbourhood. Aroun...
Health Drama
(No, this is not recent.) I think it comes with aging; our bodies fall apart gradually. Part of the drama that happened during my hiatus here are several health episodes. Septum Our company went...
Routines
The Setup Heading into my 7th week in lockdown. But I really don’t notice much being changed… I’m still working, except I don’t have the commute. The company buys everyone a monitor (and keyboar...
Work Drama
NDS's Fledglings I just passed my 7th year anniversary of working at New Hip Company last November, but I switched teams a year ago before that, so it was like starting up from scratch again. B...
Music Stuff
Now that I have time to reflect on it, maybe some notable stuff did happen in the last 3 years… Carnegie Hall I didn’t play at the Carnegie Hall concert last year, but the year before, I did pla...
The Quarantine
The Setup The reason I am back here is because of quarantine. I’m starting the 3rd week of working from home now and haven’t ventured more than a few blocks from my house. This feel strangely si...
Sheltering-in-place
Um... Hi? It’s weird. 3 years is a long time, but as I’d written before, I feel like life had come to a standstill. Even though OD reopened, I see no reason to go back. And how I’m writing for ...
Because My Life has been Boring
That’s the reason I have for not writing. Middle Management I’ve been a tech-lead for 2+ months now and I cannot say I have enjoyed it. As an engineer I have a short set of objectives to build ...
End-of-Year Survey, 2015
What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before? ~ Use a snow blower. Play solo at Zankel Hall. Put down a pet. Get a promotion. Visit New Hip Company’s headquarters. Perform at a cemetery. ...
Catch up
A lot of small things happened since I last wrote, but I haven’t been motivated to log onto prosebox. So the is almost 2 months’ worth of entries: The Lead With my promotion I’ve been assigned ...
California Dreaming
I am in California now, at New Hip Company’s headquarters, pretending to work. As soon as I returned from France, my manager gave me the news that my promotion was approved as a ‘strong promote’...
Goodbye Henrietta
Today was appropriately gloomy. Cold, damp, and drizzling all day. Henrietta declined even further the last few days; I wished we could have brought her to the vet last weekend. But as it stood, ...
A Life Well-Lived
Since we came back from France, we noticed that our pet rat Henrietta had lost some weight. I’d thought that’s because she is leading a healthier life style now, so didn’t think much of it. And L...
Busy and Busy
The last two months have been quite hectic, as I prepared my promotion packet. In my company, the decision of whether one gets promoted does not lie in the manager, but rather lies in a group of ...
Myrtle Beach Travel Log
Day 1 (Thur): Woke up at 7 to get ready. We arranged La Professeure’s colleague to come over and house-/rat-sit while we’re away. So we changed the sheets and arrange the house to get ready for ...
The World As It Is
My tech-lead has been on vacation for a few weeks now and we are just taking over for him, and we have had fire-fighting excercises. It doesn’t help that the other senior member on my team doesn’...
Burn out
This past few weeks I’ve taken to working from home a day each week because I’m always tired and not sleeping well. It didn’t help that there were many small fire-fighting exercises at work becau...
