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Rabbit and a Look Back
3 years on It was a little bit more than three years that we began our lockdown. We’re not quite back to pre-pandemic behaviour still - and I don’t think we ever will, or should, but I don’t thi...
Procrastination
A variation on a popular survey 1. First concert - Chinese University of Hong Kong Choir 2. Last concert - Me 3. Worst concert - Me 4. Loudest concert - Metrics 5. Best concert - Hard to defin...
Bloodbath
Still Alive After coming back from Argentina/Antarctica, I tested positive for COVID and had to work from home. This time it wasn’t as bad as the first time I got COVID - I didn’t have to take t...
Year-end Survey 2022
1. What did you do in 2022 that you’d never done before? Use a heart-shaped jacuzzi. Work a Hybrid in-person/remote work week. 2. Did you achieve your goals for the year, and will you make more ...
More than Bargained for
‘Tis the season for performing I’m upstate now at the in-laws with La Professeure for Thanksgiving. It’s been a busy month because of the Carnegie Hall concert, and also because of the Christmas...
Sticker Shocks
Electric future We bought a car. A couple of months ago our car started having occasional problems - every once in a while, it would have trouble starting, and when it did start, it would get st...
Fewer Arrows, More Wood
Screwed over by the freeze This week I learned that the education department’s headcount was finally unfrozen, but it went to someone else… It seems that someone else interviewed for the role wh...
Rough Shots
Move-blocked I had a meeting with the hiring manager and tech lead of the education team a few weeks ago. I met with the manager first and made it sound like it was going to be a boring job in t...
Land of the Fat Dumb and Lazy
Money matters I finally heard from the education group at work, and that they got approval for a headcount. The manager said she would ping me when the opening is posted, so I am cautiously opti...
These times
Nice while it lasted I heard from the Covid response team from work at the end of last week, so this week I’m allowed back to work. Even though for the most part I am still having virtual meetin...
Just Like a Cold
Inevitable Well, it was going to happen some time. I performed with my amateure group two weeks ago (they were short of performers), and had dinner with a few friends afterwards. I suspect that...
The Ridiculous, the Profound, and the Tacky
Kind of back to work Starting from April, we had to physically go back to work for 3 days a week, but I took last week off, and took one day off the week before that, so I have spent a total of ...
On The Move
Um… where’s everybody? Two years after the pandemic the office is slowly returning to normal. My office is going back to part time in-person next month, and March would be a “transition” period ...
And the winner is...
Slow Progress It will have been 2 years of lockdown by next week. The two years passed by like a blink, since every day is so monotonous and there is nothing to really mark the passage of time. ...
Not My Problem
The Nor'easter We got snow for about 12 hours straight, and ended up with about a foot on the driveway. But it wasn’t too bad to dig out since the snow wasn’t packed in. It only took ~2 hours fo...
Better Than Nothing
Chasing a lost cause I started feeling stuffy down my chest on Friday, and stayed on the sofa for the whole day yesterday watching, amongst other things, FA Cup Match Of The Day and re-run of th...
Year-End Survey of 2021
1. What did you do in 2021 that you’d never done before? Bake 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...
Train Wrecks
Derailed Holiday Plans I’m in Binghamton now at my in-laws again, for Christmas this time. Normally my brother-in-law would visit as well, but it looks like he and his wife are not coming becaus...
Thanksgiving Break
Reminder of abnormalcy We just came back from upstate visiting La Professeure’s parents for Thanksgiving. It is nice to spend holidays with family again. And we went there a day early - stayed T...
Plan-Making Plans
Middle management Two weeks I gave a presentation on the design of our project. It was well received, but the implementation is going to take over a year to finish. The managers want this implem...
Where No One has Gone before
Cabin Fever It’s been 2 weeks since coming back from Ticonderoga. It is a small town. There’s one Walmart, one Dunkin Donut, and one McDonalds, and that’s it. The rest are just lake houses, farm...
Land of the Free
Vacation at Ticonderoga We are at Ticonderoga now for a vacation. La Professeure’s college roommate invited us to her father-in-law’s lakehouse on Lake George. It’s a nice little cottage, and th...
Now That We can be Present, Let's Not
Take twos It’s been almost 2 1/2 months since I have been fully vaccinated and we’ve done one round of in-person visits with friends. Now, the second rounds have started. A couple of weeks ago ...
Back into It
Visits It’s been 2 months since we have been fully vaccinated, and we have been taking advantage of our regained freedom. The first in-person social visit was upstate to my in-laws. We stayed w...
Pandemic Projects
We went upstate to visit La Professeure’s parents last week. It was our first post-pandemic visit. I’ll write about that later but it was the surest sign that we are slowly returning to normal, s...
