The pandemic put a wrench in a lot of things, and one of those things for us was finding a new synagogue. When we lived in San Francisco, Sherith Israel was our home, but it’s simply too far away to visit regularly, and our life with kids in the east bay means we have less […]
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Wallace and Gromit, MUNI Heritage Weekend, and Lego
October 22nd, 2025 by pleia2
A few weeks ago we had plans to go to LEGOLAND Discovery Center Bay Area, but then Aaron came home with a cold and fever, causing us to postpone our plans. This was a real bummer, but thankfully Adam and I had an alternative for that day: seeing Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit […]
Local Fall Festival and old-ish computers
September 18th, 2025 by pleia2
A few people have remarked recently about how activity-driven we are as a family. It’s true, we have a lot of adventures! But the fact is, we also spent 2.5 years at home during a pandemic when our children are little, so part of it is making up for lost time. Another part is that […]
School begins! And August winds down.
August 29th, 2025 by pleia2
Our summer in Philadelphia was lovely, but we had to come back so the kids could start school in early August. It’s still surreal to me how early they start, but it was an exciting year for them, Aaron was finally joining elementary school as a Transitional Kindergartner (TK), and Adam was starting 1st Grade! […]
Philly summer 2025 concludes!
August 13th, 2025 by pleia2
All the project work I mentioned in my last post aside, we did have some fun adventures the last week and a half we were in Philadelphia after returning from New England. The boys got to see a lot of grandpa through afternoon visits all summer, but we were also there to celebrate his birthday […]
Parks, fairies, cars and airplanes
July 3rd, 2025 by pleia2
Last year we began spending summer vacation for the kids in Philadelphia, but I was a little sad to miss some of the California summer activities. This year we delayed our visit to Philly by a couple weeks so we could! Plus, MJ was traveling for a conference the first week of June, so it […]
Graduations, trains and lagoons
June 12th, 2025 by pleia2
Unbeknownst to me, the last day I was in Boston sadly overlapped with Aaron’s pre-school/pre-K graduation, and MJ also had a major work event that day. The graduation was a week before his actual departure from the school for good, so it was an important transition for him and we were sad to miss it. […]
Our IBM LinuxONE AI Arcade & more at the Red Hat Summit 2025
May 29th, 2025 by pleia2
Back in 2019 I participated in my first Red Hat Summit. It was my second week working at IBM, and the whole thing was quite a whirlwind tour of exploring a vendor-specific event and getting to meet a whole bunch of people at IBM who I’d come to know a lot better in these past […]
Anniversary, Star Wars, and Mother’s Day
May 22nd, 2025 by pleia2
On April 28th MJ and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. This year we actually had the opportunity to celebrate it on the actual day with a lovely dinner out in San Francisco. We went to our favorite sushi place where we are friends with the owners and chef, and had spent so much time […]
IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 launches
May 13th, 2025 by pleia2
One of the several things that has kept me very busy at work lately is the launch of the new IBM z17 and it’s sister system, the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5. I have a lot of fun with these launches, but they’re also a lot of rather high-stress work based around tight deadlines, regardless of […]