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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...
Compromises
A couple of weeks ago I complained off-handedly about the commute I’m having, and that made La Professeure sad because she said she loves her life right now, and wants me to love mine. I guess pi...
Emotional Masturbation
It’s been a month and a half since I last wrote; I feel like there should be stuff to write about, but can’t really recollect them all. Food, Friends, and Merriment There has been several non-o...
Carnegie Hall
So I played in yet another of the amateur group’s Carnegie Hall concert two weeks ago. By this time it was no longer a big deal - I was not nervous, I was not excited - it was more like a chore, ...
Just catching up
I feel, again, like I don’t write here any more, since it’s been a month since I last updated and that update was just a survey. In truth, there is not much to write about. Except perhaps the sn...
End-of-Year Survey, 2014
Happy New Year. I figure I’d do this first before posting an actual entry… What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before? Go on a river cruise. Perform with one hand at Carnegie Hall. P...
Tis the Season
Doctor's visit I mentioned last entry that our rat Henrietta had a tumor and needed surgery. The surgery happend the first Tuesday of December, and went very smoothy - apparently tumor removal f...
Because I cannot sleep
The suburbs that never sleeps Lately I have been having more days when I just can’t sleep. Ever since I moved to the suburbs, I have to up at a normal hour, 7 or 8 in th morning, having had 5 or...
