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Earthquake and other Disasters
Earthquake Before and after the earthquake hit, the wind was blowing very hard, and I was still in bed half waking up. So when the house shook I thought it was just a very strong gust of wind an...
The Saga of non-Bidding War
House as identity We’ve been going to open houses on the weekends but up till two weeks ago hadn’t found anything we liked. Two weekends ago we saw two nice houses that we would put an offer on....
Another Audition Date
Constant Entertainment After a period of chewing the ottoman cave, the rabbit has returned to chewing on the couch. We had tried to distract him with other chew toys but he always returned to th...
Left Behind
Get a hint La Prof went upstate for the funeral of her maid of honor’s mom. I stayed behind because of the rabbit, and because I was scheduled to host a recital. The recital concert was surpris...
Happy New Year
The Break The way the holidays fell this year, with Christmas on a Monday and New Year on the next Monday, we were able to get a 1 ½ week off by taking three vacation days, since the Fridays wer...
Year-end Survey 2023
1. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before? Set foot in Antarctica. Snorkle. Run a concert series. See an orange sky. Visit the Statue of Liberty. 2. Did you achieve your goals for ...
How Does One Measure a Life?
In Love La Professeure’s sister-in-law’s father, who lives 20 minutes away from us, has had a case of dementia since last Thanksgiving. The doctor discovered a tumor in his brain, removed it by ...
The Expectations Game
Jaded When Rabbits are happy, they hop straight up into the air and zip around. It’s their version of dogs’ zoomies. Our rabbit used to do that on a daily basis. However, lately La Professeure a...
Novelty
Montauk We took half of a week off to go to Montauk three weeks ago. This would be our summer trip, and the first time we visited. On the first day we arrived early, so we had time to tour the ...
Busy and Hot Summer
Amateurs I’m now upstate with the in-laws now to celebrate my mother-in-law’s birthday. This is the continuation of the summer where we have social obligations many weekends in a row. On Bastill...
Onset of Summer
Passing the Baton Our amateur music group had the last recital of the season and a board meeting last week. ENT pianist is hoping to delegate more responsibility to others from next season on, s...
Real Estate Dramas
Afford to be picky So far, house prices are high, and the ones that fall in our price range all have some issue with it. We often wonder to ourselves what the homeowners were thinking putting in...
Does Anything Matter
Maybe you should stop I played Mozart at the last amateur group’s recital without having paid a lot of attention to preparing for it. I didn’t feel the pressure of playing a concert, as a result...
The Sandwich Generation
Kids these days The rabbit is now always asking for treats. He nudges us to get attention and tries to get behind the desk in the office. In general he is very patient but he has been known to t...
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...
