What a month!
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🇮🇳 & 🎾
The 🇮🇳 trip went great but I got hit by a nasty case of Delhi belly on Day 5 by accidentally dipping my samosa generously in some sweet tamarind chutney1.
I’ve really gotten back into Tennis 🎾 and enjoying every bit of it.
📺 Mentalist binge
My wife and I basically went on a Mentalist binge. It’s a show I watched for 5 seasons and then paused for some reason. We enjoy detective murder mysteries but with slightly less darkness. My wife was so hooked that I think we plowed through an entire season in two days. While the show is not emmy worthy necessarily, it had a decent enough conlcusion to the Red John mystery - lacking from most long running shows today2.
Upcoming Sabbatical
Instacart–my current employer–gives us 4 weeks of sabbatical every 4 years. I’m closing in on year 8 without taking the first one, so I decided Jan 2023 was going to be the 🏖️ month. But in preparation for a 4 week leave, Work has been brutal, so probably have to keep that in mind as I review December’s goals.
🎧 New earbuds
Bought new earbuds - Bose QC Earbuds II as I gave my previous Airpods to my dad. I love the noise cancelation with the Bose, but given I ditched plans of moving to a Pixel3, figured I should get the Airpods Pro Gen2.
Review December’s Goals
- ✅ Finish 🛠️ IT for the folks in India
- ✅✅ moar 🎾
- 🙅 publish 2 blog posts
- ⛔️ Switch to android
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TrueTime or CBE - one concrete task - 🙅 Start playing the Tabla/Piano
Goals for January
- Travel (Costa Rica! ❤️)
- 2023 recoup & think about goals, intentions
- Home renovation duties
- Henry Theme:
- I want to clean + spiff kau.sh up
- Build out the Shorts feature
- Create a changelog video post
- Blog posts:
- Keeping an India SIM active as an NRI
- How i use Loopback to stream to two airpods/bluetooth headphones
- Simplify life: Put 4 unused items up for sale
- Book reading
- To Do List Formula: How to Increase Your Productivity and Master Your Time
- The Staff Engineer’s Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
- Restore my Tabla (I have plans to start playing, but first try to repair it)
- Start David Blaine’s Studio magic course.
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While I was extremely careful with not drinking water or uncooked raw items, the Samosa landed up being too spicy and the closest thing I could find is the sweet tamarind chutney so dunked it in there. 🤦 ↩︎
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yes… looking at you GOT. ↩︎
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Talked about this in this episode. ↩︎