We got back last Friday (like early morning) so through a week of work already.

I started to write a travel journal (like a physical book) started our last vacation (Jordan).  So I continued on this trip and it's good to go back and review what I wrote.  It is very time consuming on the trip though, but as a bonus, Taiwan had lots of tourist stamps ( Read more... )

It's been a while.  Sorry everyone!  It's cliché but I've been pretty busy at work, which makes me tired.  And that leads to me not prioritizing journaling.

But let's catch up.

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But not the Green Day type.  Even though I was at a conference for the first two days of last week, I've been unmotivated and stressed out.  So I randomly took Friday off since I have extra vacation days.

Anyway, let's talk about less boring things!

Angie and I watched AMC's new Interview with the Vampire series.  I'd actually say it was pretty ( Read more... )

During the cruise, I finished Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.


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I've been wanting to make an entry for a while, but I've either been very tired or not prioritizing it (too busy). Now, it's hard to remember what I wanted to write about so let me write about random things recently ( Read more... )

So it took a little longer than I expected, but I'm finally tested negative this morning. It was about 10 days from when I first felt symptoms so not bad. I think I was anxious because the minimum isolation period for my work was 6 days so it was longer than I expected. And while I had things that I can and should do onsite, none of it is super ( Read more... )

I tested positive for COVID Thursday morning. On Wednesday evening, I was feeling not well including a fever. Luckily on Thursday, I had two morning meetings (8-10) so Angie was able to pick up a test. I actually felt much better on Thursday morning, but decided to take the test to be a good person, plus we were planning to go to an office ( Read more... )

I am old. And since I'm super sore that means that I did end up playing soccer after work.

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As background, I'm a big fan of the Foundation novels (I even think the ones after the trilogy are okay). But when I heard that Apple TV was adapting it, I couldn't imagine it would be good because modern Hollywood would destroy an epic (thousands of year) story that is not character focused. It's especially difficult since the first novel is ( Read more... )

It really is starting to look like once a month is getting to be my posting rate. Not good. That's mainly because work's been killing me. Probably more in the stress aspect than anything. But today, I did feel like I made some good progress on several projects so that's good. I also have this fear that people think I'm incompetent, which is ( Read more... )