Drinking from the Garden Hose

This year we are spending the holidays at home in San Diego! The pandemic certainly shifted our plans 2020 holiday season and this year we are spending both Thanksgiving and Christmas in our new home for the first time (cute, adorable milestone - one worth calling out!). San Diego has been home for over a year now and I really do love the lifestyle. My fiance and I have dreamed of moving down here for most of our relationship, we'd fly down from Seattle for a weekend with friends at the beach and try to figure out which companies might be cool to work for in the area, assuming at the time I'd be nearly in my 40s before I'd have the type of seniority at AWS to take a field role in such a desirable part of the country (certain cities are very coveted and have literally no turn over for decades, it's a dream job). HOWEVER, the pandemic and remote work situations enabled us to make the move sooner than later, and we are both extremely happy down here for a variety of reason

I’m sitting in a window seat, 10,000 feet and climbing over the California desert, above the clouds. It still amazes me that humans were able to invent flight and integrate air travel into society the way we have. One day I fully plan on looking down on Earth from a different perspective, somewhere in space, somewhere that’s always been above me. In the third grade for a class wax-museum I was Sally Ride and wore a full astronaut space suit and had a 5 minute bio memorized. I also went to space camp twice and have already entered a Blue Origin lottery to win a seat on a commercial space flight, so it’s going to happen one way or another. It’s just about the same price as an American wedding these days…  Albert Einstein is a gentleman who needs no introduction, but I will recommend his collection of essays The World As I See it. His reputation as one of the most brilliant minds in human history precedes him, and much of the wisdom he gathered outside of the realm of academia he articula