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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 ...
Day 15: New York in Russia Travel Log
I’ve by now adjusted to the new timezone (La Professeure hasn’t). It’s been a fun month with trips to Sydney first, and then to Russia. But now it’s back to normal routine, and I have to look for...
Day 14: St. Petersburg in Russia Travel Log
For a change, we did not have to take an early flight this Viking cruise. So we took a leisurely morning, having breakfast at the restaurant first, and then the panorama room, saying goodbye to t...
Day 13: St. Petersburg in Russia Travel Log
We woke up at 6:30 for a 7:30 tour to visit the Peterhof palace today. That was a price to pay for the early admission. There were very few visitors at the time we got there. It’s billed as the “...
Day 12: St. Petersburg in Russia Travel Log
We woke up early in the morning (after having a late night the previous night) to go to Catherine’s Palace at Pushkin. The palace was nice; we took a guided tour round the garden first, and onl...
Day 11: St. Petersburg in Russia Travel Log
We docked for good at St. Petersburg, and had a busy Hermitage-focused first day, which consisted of visiting the Hermitage museum, its impressionist wing, and its storage and restoration center,...
Day 10: Mandrogy in Russia Travel Log
We docked early at Mandrogy, which is what our tour director describes as “Disneyland of Russia”. It was like a Russian village themed amusement park, complete with a visitor’s center and a carto...
Day 9: Kizhi in Russia Travel Log
Today we crossed lake Onega to visit Kizhi. The lake was very calm and made for smooth sailing. We also had a visit to the wheelhouse in the morning. It was amusing, the controls look like they a...
Day 8: Kuzino/Berillov/Goritzky in Russia Travel Log
Today we docked at Kuzino, got bussed to Berillov, and then got bussed to Goritzky to re-join the ship. This all happened in the morning, within 3 hours. There is nothing at the port of Kuzino,...
Day 7: Yaroslavl in Russia Travel Log
We spent the morning in Yaroslavl. That is supposed to be an industrial town but we weren’t taken anywhere near industrial buildings. Instead we went to the old part of the town, where there are ...
Day 6: Uglich in Russia Travel Log
Today we made a port call to Uglich. The ship didn’t dock till 2pm, so in the morning we had lectures (about Romanov dynasty and Russian language lesson). The time passed by. Viking is good about...
Day 5: Moscow in Russia Travel Log
This was the first day we had an early start, because we had to squeeze in a morning excursion before leaving Moscow in the afternoon to get to Uglich in afternoon the next day. We left around 9:...
Day 4: Moscow in Russia Travel Log
Today we had a long day, visited the Cosmonaut museum in the afternoon, and a night tour of Moscow. But the morning was again idle. We got a late start, with me getting breakfast at Panorama bar...
Day 3: Moscow in Russia Travel Log
The first full day in Moscow was spent on the boat at first. La Professeure had a late start (she still had jet lag), so I got breakfast and checked out various public areas of the ship. Then she...
