Got a loaner Outback XT as our Outback’s dash lit up after the last thunderstorm.

The extra 80 hp is so much fun flooring from a stop.

Leave a movie theater at 630am, check.

Changing a tire with an impact driver »»»» Changing a tire with the tools in the trunk.

One of our cars caught a nail during the storm on Thursday, and a neighbor saw me set up the jack and getting started, and he was like I’m not going to let you struggle like that and got his toolset out to the car —less than 5 minutes to get the donut on.

That was about 20 minutes of intense wind, with the regular levels of thunderstorms last evening but it has downed so many trees.

Yesterday, I had a sense that today would be a challenging day at work. So much so, that I unusually said it aloud, to my boss.

Glad the day is over.

Listening to a bunch of contemporary Piano based musical pieces around the sub 5 minute mark, after Succession’s series final, landed in my discovering Sofiane Pamart

London, Sahara and Medellin are my favorites. Kiddo’s are Ocean, London and Medellin.

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One of the main reasons I’ve continued to follow so much of Chennai’s happenings over the last 15 years was the written Tanglish I could consume. This, despite never having lived in the cool parts of Madras that the Chennai Twitteratti seems to have experienced in the 80s/90s.

While I nominally can read தமிழ், ( no thanks to Keyes High School’s Veeraswami Kindergarten’s Tamil slant allowing them to be one of the few places in Hyderabad that formally taught you in தமிழ் for all those children of immigrants from Tamil Nadu settled in the Padma Rao Nagar - West Marredpally Areas of Rail Nilayam centered Secunderabad), I do not think in it anymore, it’s that much of a hop to understand it as naturally as the extra effort in reading it takes away from the probability of understanding it quickly.

This new feature at an operating system level, as path-breaking and progressive as it may be, and despite me making an additional effort to read more தமிழ், it makes me feel I’ll understand it that much less in the future.

Just in time for my family to have moved to Chennai.

Feels so weird booking a ticket to MAA instead of HYD.

Goodbye DDG

Triumph is scared of Royal Enfield.

Case in point : www.triumphmotorcycles.com/motorcycl…

Even our oven thinks it is too humid.

Demo’d one bathroom that the good son managed to get water damage in thinking we have the spare. Just before we had family visit, we discovered the second one was also waterlogged due to a bad caulk job and 90s builders tiling without waterproofing in the bathroom as if it was all a backsplash.

Fun times ahead.

( Micro.blog iOS app put this in draft and never published it )

I picked up some chest infection, which I tried to self-soothe/heal with home remedies/OTC, and now we’re at the point of Zpak+Steroids. Tested -ve twice during that week for COVID so the doc ruled out Paxlovid

Not sure if it was the bath demo work or all the travel in the mountains that did it.

Kiddo asked what is MRF during the Test Match.

It is fun to have visual aids to explain with.

Data transfer between two NASes has taken the whole week—lots of learning around file permissions between default usergroups that Synology and TrueNAS.

Blackberry something with ice cream at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant.

Ordered as an afterthought but probably the best meal of the trip.

That score to end it - I wish to hear that in a symphony soon.

Jan ‘22 : Test +ve for COVID

May ‘23 : GA DPH catches up to me from being backed up all this while and calls to ask me about my symptoms during that time.

15 years.

“Happy 31st work anniversary” posts on the group’s Slack make one look young.

Got a glimpse of the Wife’s work laptop only to find my ride home during my FOB landing at Rochester 15 years ago. He’d moved on from ROC to follow his adviser and has no references to his time there on his socials.

Small world indeed.

Unsubbed to The Talk Show - maybe will pick back up on following @ gruber.com feed. The needle moved not because of his opinions, not his interviewees or their opinions but that final Squarespace ad.

I’d instead take a broken random DAI implementation playing the same ad compared to his pitch.

As much as one gets to enjoy the foliage all around in the Atlanta area, there’s something cosmic about being able to seeing sunrises and moonrises from behind the Mountains.

Picture doesn’t capture the Milpitas Odor on the first proper Speing day

Wife travelled for work this week which meant that the kiddo and I co-slept after a long time. Each night was at least 10 hours of non stop sleep with some of the most high budget action filled dreams I’ve ever had.

This shot clock for MLB is making baseball feel like IPL.