We made it through our trip and haven't got sick yet. COVID cases are starting to take off at kid's school, though. Not super optimistic their containment will continue to hold, and even if it does, they're going to have a spike in cases due to community transmission more broadly. Kid's teacher was out sick this week, her family has COVID.

I started ( Read more... )

So we're travelling for the winter holidays and visiting Julie's family for the first time in two years. If I'd made the plans in December rather than November, they probably would have been different. But ultimately I couldn't put Eris through the last-minute cancellation of her holiday plans after all she's been through so far. So it's down to ( Read more... )

My parents are in town this weekend for a visit. So they're getting a little time alone with the grandkid today, and I'm getting a bit of remarkably quiet time, starting with a nice brunch with Julie. They're taking her to the DeCordova Sculpture Garden and Drumlin Farm today, and we have some zoo trips planned together for Sunday and Monday. And I ( Read more... )

Last week, we took our first family vacation in over a year. We joined my parents and my brother Solomon at a vacation rental in Auburn (near Worcester), MA. I reread Cryptonomicon and tried to struggle my way towards Mythic again in Magic Arena. We cooked bluefish and salmon and London broil, had a fancy tapas meal takeout for Fathers Day and a ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I went back to Cleveland for the wedding of my friends Markos and Michelle. Was a very happy occasion, they're clearly a great match.

This was also my first time seeing my parents and brother in person in well over a year. Plus was my first experience with pandemic travel, and traveling alone is always a bit surreal these days. (Very ( Read more... )

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Took a rather long Thanksgiving break home in Cleveland this past week. It was very relaxing. We met up with Dan and Anne and Isaac. Had a nice Thanksgiving meal at home. I took my mom for a birthday dinner, which I'm home for this year, due to the unusually late Thanksgiving.

I spent a lot of time curled up with Breath of the Wild, which is a ( Read more... )

Last week, I was away all week for an internal conference in the Munich office. First time traveling business class, which sure was a luxury! (Though still wasn't much for sleeping, the fundamental constraint of luxury air travel is you're still stuck on a plane ( Read more... )

We've been under the weather for the past two weeks, and Julie will be away on business travel for the next few days, starting tomorrow. I've been pretty exhausted ( Read more... )

A few weeks back, daycare was off for a week and we took the opportunity to visit my brother Solomon on Sanibel Island. Was a very lovely vacation, with beautiful scenery and good food (some home-cooked). We visited a local nature preserve, saw some dolphins in the wild on a wildlife cruise, and swam in the Gulf. Was nice to see my brother and meet ( Read more... )