Today was my last day at Microsoft after almost a decade. I was extremely honored to work with great people, dealt never-ending but fun challenges; I believe these days gave me crazy amount of learnings – both as a professional and hopefully as a genuine good & caring human. Thank you Microsoft and all who have been part of my journey.
โAll meetings have partings, and all partings have returningโ (ๆ่ ๅฎ้ขย ๅป่ ๅฟ ่ฟ)
Trying to be back to casual cycling ๐ but now I have a family to go along with it…vs me simply getting one bike and ride..
This journey has been killing my wallet and research time for mini DIYs (Hitch, Car Rack, in Home Rack, Stand, PSI enabled pump, other accessories, and -most importantly- Bike Assembly etc) – didn’t realize this in past but bicycles are becoming more like a car ๐ฆ so many things to install, know and be careful to treat.
Now my butt pain is asking me to do something and I am yelling back at it like “Deal with it”.. ๐
Historic weather forcing us to pull camping sleeping pad near the AC for the night. Well at least tomorrow is two digits after three consecutive record breaking days… ๐ Reminds me the crazy summer of 1994 in Seoul…
Now we have one more middle school graduate in the house.. after open-air socially-distanced ceremony in the hot 80s day at nearby high school’s football field.
Now it is rental car – as rental car companies sold their inventory to used car market which has been appreciating values & limited new car inventory with production backlog and semiconductor shortage. Ha….now let me think what the next one will be..
Journey of 6 month driving surveillance ended and returned the device back to insurance company. – They are claiming I got a discount but realized have no way to prove back.. ๐
The renewal rate actually came in about the same price when I signed this up (which had the participation discount) but made me wonder whether this was worth of it….and also triggered me to think of total switch to Pay Per Mile companies…
Thanks to this endless Pandemic and magical YouTube algorithm, I have came to try unusual things I hardly done before… (and Amazon wins as I end up ordering some tools….)
Starting with one floor mat deep cleaning per day at shower time while waiting for handy steamer to arrive..:)
You break it, we fix it – lived the life of ‘Bob the Builder’ today
– PC reinstall with USB media : found no USB thumb drive at the world of Cloud, so had to order Amazon’s same day delivery and made the USB repair/installation media and recovered a PC which turned to black screen upon every boot
As our gentleman in the house -who never sits straight while putting more weights on chairs- have more time at home with various chairs because of Pandemic, this meant my chair repairing skill goes beyond the wood chair repair
– Plastic chair with broken back: after failed attempt with Super glue, went to epoxy glue. As the broken part was highly visible part of chair, had to go with multiple sanding after the glue and spraying paint and coating with Polyurethane.
– Bent Steel folding chair with disjointed horizon bar: so after using hammer and bring back the bent part, the question was whether I am willing to go into welding (which I don’t have any tools…) so settled with steel epoxy…
– Office chair: This is the still one of the mystery need to solve – how can you rock the rolling office chair?! But our gentleman must have showed that skill before he broke the chair. Similarly my first attempt with Super glue didn’t last long, so attempted with epoxy glue, but as this doesn’t have much visibility I am not willing to go into sanding/coloring part..
All in all, total four items in my household got the treatment, Home Depot and Amazon was the winner and I enjoyed smells from various chemicals (and now I understand why they check the birth date when I purchased the spray can..)
