Okay, first I am going to force myself to recount some positive aspects of the past few days despite how challenging it may be to do that right now. I got here successfully and had a quite pleasant stay with my first hosts. I didn’t forget anything crucial at home. I got an international SIM […]
In less than 48, er 24 hours, I’ll be boarding a plane that will take me to another plane, which will land me in The Netherlands for a three-month stint working from a town called Delft. Two colleagues asked me separately today if I had started packing. I haven’t. That question made me a bit […]
We bought a house. This one: It’s just a stone’s throw outside of Providence in a town called Cranston, not to be confused with Scranton, PA (“The Electric City”, made famous by Em’s favorite VP, Joe Biden and our favorite TV series, The Office). The street is a cul de sac with very neighborly feel. […]
Hello again, loyal readers. A two-legged ally of mine named Guy-maly is currently doing commissioned illustrations. Naturally, I arranged for her to do one of the most photogenic member of the household, myself. I think it captures my personality well.
Ah, San Luis Obispo, the happiest place in the country, my old college town, and the last leg of our trip to CA. This place holds many memories. It’s where I first developed my enthusiasm for bicycling and where I grew to love the feel of a small, walkable town. It had been about 8 […]
My mom’s garden is immense. Em liked to come out here to sip her tea and bask in the sun in the morning before my mom woke up. There’s the most impressive rosemary bush I’ve ever seen. It’s constantly moving from the swarm of drunken bees rolling around in it. We estimated about 200 bees […]
My grandma doesn’t travel anymore at her impressive age of 96, so it had been a while since we saw her. We planned to meet up with her for lunch in her retirement community’s dining hall. We showed up right when we had planned to, and my mom barged into Grandma’s room. She was well-dressed […]
My mom recommended this place as well – the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (I hesitate to include the link since their website makes it look more cheesy than it is, but so it goes). It’s an impressive feat of engineering – basically a cable-driven elevator that goes several thousand feet up a mountain to Mount […]
We saw a couple of things in Pasadena that remind me of my sister. Exhibit 1: a Hello Kitty store which was the pinkest store I have seen in recent memory. Exhibit 2: Fish Dish seafood restaurant. I once heard Kira recite the rhyme, “I wish for a fish on a dish.” Score one point […]
Em wanted to visit this place when we came put here last year, but we didn’t make it then due to some lousy weather at the time. This time, we made it, and Em was primed for it. This attraction is alternately referred to as “The Huntington Library” or “The Huntington Library and Gardens”, or […]