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Plan-Making Plans in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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...
Off my Arse in Trichotomy
Vaccinated I got the second dose of Pfizer vaccine last weekend, so I should be fully vaccinated by next week. The case number in Nassau county is about the same as last summer, though it’s tren...
The Beginning of the End. Maybe in Trichotomy
Vaxxing up In New York, the vaccine availability was extended to 40+ at the end of last month. The morning when I became eligible, La Professeure scheduled an appointment for me. Then told her f...
Cooking Survey in Trichotomy
By now everyone in my immediate family has gotten at least one dose of the vaccine, for various reasons - Cheesedog , Spencer, La Professeure, her siblings and both sets of our parents. (Not me t...
Creations in Trichotomy
You blink and they are in high school Little Boo-boo has been accepted to his top choice of high school. We haven’t spent as much time together since I moved to the suburbs, but I’m very proud o...
Another Month in Lockdown in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
“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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
(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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 in Trichotomy
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 ...
