mid July update:
It's July 17th, mid july. it was busy but not purposeful, but some good movements happened that will give me a chance to reimagine the future. 1 week of exercise followed by 1 week of period. cooking was okay. work could have been better. for the next half of July, I want to continue exercise, put some thought into reimagined life and set some direction for myself.
I did put thought into direction, did exercise but do want to focus better at work and spend way less time on sm.
July is almost here and what do I want:
1. Exercise : Swim in the evenings + gym = 3, free yoga at farmers /
https://www.laparks.org/aquatic/summer/stoner-park-pool
Adult Lap Swim Pass (30 entries): $88
2. Work : optimal focus + AWS + business + team
2.2 : one big learning project
3. Learning : ask about certification from D. data science.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118 , looker
4. Money : get more clarity , get notes done, make actionable steps. simulator. coursera.
5. Cook and clean
6. Keep SM to just Friday.
7. take the masterclass on investing. the money with katie show. youtube.
8. Of course, outdoor fun.
9. Hobby photography
10. This desire to organize thoughts and share.
11. Z - clean, eat, read, library audio books / activities.
12. check roth effects.
13. Drive
Events:
July 4 long weekend - meh jurassic museum
July 12 member's breakfast
July 19 - topgolf
28 - school tour
July 29 - 626eatstreet
aug 1 - Dentist appointment for Z and me.
aug 2 - training
Aug 5 - Gardening propagation
Aug 9 - Arv
Aug 10 - Scooter's dentist appt.
Sep 3 - zoo
Sep 17 - tar pits
Weekday:
M - gym / office AND read
T - (WFH OR big and tiny) AND possibly swim / dishes / Z bath
W - gym / office AND cook
Th - (WFH OR big and tiny) AND possibly swim / Z bath
F - gym / office AND possibly swim / dishes
Sa - AJ class +laundry / grocery AND possibly cook / Z bath
/ read
Su - read / money habits AND Batter / cook if not done on Saturday else Outdoor / chill
Thoughts for July:
- drive Z to day care M & F.
- AJ - passport update for CA app
- Ar - visa / tickets
- CA next step
- Austin ticket / Bay area ticket / Vancouver ticket
- Stay
- India tickets / Scooter's brighthorizon credits
- Rat and I - savings transfers
- Researching and Saving money for Shopping
- decisions on housing / car / rotimatic and nymble / composter
- Z swim clothes / insulated bag / cup
- understand subscriptions : netflix / masterclass subscriptions / barnes and nobles / f1 / prime / ymca
- Z schooling research / year 3
- 529
- money habits
- understand economy and job
- profile to maintain: visualization / AWS data engineer / data analyst / manager / ad fraud space
- profile to build: search / data science techniques / graph
- tax deficit commuter card
- Z brush / bath / diaper / book / oil
- use YMCA membership - find swim slots, find AJ classes, onepass possibility : saturday class / online fitness gold gym/cycle
- gym routine - figuring out
- masterclass expires on September 23
- dentist appointment for Scooter and Z
- workaround for big and tiny on site requirement
- SM accounts - the why and the how ; flowers / nymble
- understand LA commute
- LA museum pass / zoo pass from library / Newspapers / consumer reports
- konmari - photos
- what about service / volunteering? thoughts on immigration
Days
1. Oil bath for whole family, lazying, random useless museum, talking about economics when i should have been sleeping.
2. Waking up feeling shitty. Feeling restless. A creative pursuit. Masterclass on investment.
3. some work, lunch @ Westfield mall / shooter alert.
4. clothes, cleaning, reading news, z bath, katie show, other room clean up
5. Scooter walk, lazy work, lot of investing related reading and podcast.
6. Walk, library card exploration, some financial spreadsheet, cooking
7. Random browsing. Swim.
8. Z bath, face painting, cook, park.
9. Yoga. Farmers market. Cooking. checking for dental/ eye / Scooter's med appointments.
10. Period day. Ice cream date, paneer, reading and music with Z.
11 -
12 - immigration volunteering, cook
13 - some work, immigration volunteering, saturated investment gyan
14 - health checkup, brunch date. some tickets
15 - some happy red tape,
16 - Venice canals, cook, ticket booking, little ai
17 - swim,
18. fidelity
19. gym, tickets, golf
20. dishes, laundry, cook, some ua , some fedex research, austin tickets.
21. fedex, looker
22. Mop, counters, restroom, z, mats - all clean between Rat and me. Met Tim and Linda for lunch.
23. rest. much more social media than is healthy.
24. fedex. work. cook
25. bond. office. immigration. ticket. partner
26. gym. office. tickets
27. work / presentation
28. School tour, work, ip vendor, cook Briyani, swim
29. Kaara kuzhambu, food market.
30. Yoga. Grocery shopping. Booked India ticket. Setup travel card tracking spreadsheet.
31. Slept terribly. Gave some gyan that I think is useful. dishes, cleaning, looking for wallet, ML plans. tickets.
Happiness
Fatty breakfasts.
Reading the same book to Z feeling annoyed and helpful at the same time.
ordered a book bundle for Zaya from the STEAM theme from the library.
got access to wall street journal using the lib card and a bunch of audio books, have too many books than I can read.
booked a bunch of tickets to zoos and museums for free using the library card.
room b has been opened to life, and verandah is almost set up. fingers crossed.
assessing things to learn in H2.
learning about investment.
Z can understand most everything we say. She knows when I ask her to get something from the room. She knows when I ask her to put something back where she took it from. She knows that trash goes into the dustbin. I'm so impressed how much she learns.
Z when she takes milk gently strokes me with her little hands and it's the most warm touch I ever know.
An amazing sunday lunch with such a simple but flavorful jeera rice, dhal and chicken thokku. Just can't beat the combo. And ice cream
the most flavorful tacos - homemade with chicken, chimmichrri, ranch, yogurt n some veggie. dash of lemon.
Ali Sethi.
The romantic girl is long gone. Except once in a while you are watching an Instagram reel of some recipe and you are not actually watching it. You are just listening to someone's vocal cover of a very moving song and you are reminded of that person you were in the past that knew how to think of love. Two such covers - meenamma and the female version of 'managalin niram paartha kaadhal mugangalin niram paarkumo'
Cali Tandoor biryani. And a Briyani when you are not expecting one tastes so much better than a Briyani you ordered.
Venice canals was amazing. I love the houses there - they have a lot of character.
a day out with Tim and Linda at the nursery. some new plants are home.
https://12ft.io/ - a way to pass paywalls
Z's calls with her grandma.
I ask Z for kisses. Sometimes she gives me kisses especially if she leaving for day care, but most times she says No. I feel sad for a second and then happy that she knows to confidently practice saying no. I'm also happy for the few times recently where I never asked her for a kiss and she would just decide to give me a few. Success.
Food
AJ - Z's lunch packing everyday. bread sandwiches, guac , butter cookies, chicken, golden beets. rotis and dosas. mushroom, chicken. homemade tacos. amazing chapathis.
Annie - spinach dhal, gochujang tofu scramble, kathrika thokku. Batter. Chicken. Jeera rice, dhal, spaghetti squash poriyal. paneer. spinach sambar, beans poriyal, brussel sprouts. potato masala. keerai poriyal. Chicken Briyani. Kaara kuzhambu.
Outside: Indian sweet and spices subpar food, Eataly cannoli , ravioli and carbonara, and amazing gelato, colony kitchen bowls, annapurna bisibelebath , pongal and rasa vada. wanderlust creamery * 2. white truffle potato chips from trader joes, bunch of readymade italian food from trader joes. chimmichurri. briyani from cali tandoor. Shef meatballs and cauli rice and tangy fish sauce. Seoul Tofu. Mr.sate.
Learning
about investment:
travel cards - shopping for points
little book John Bogle - why index is better than mutual. p/e ratios not helpful
chatgpt - portfolios from the Tony robbins books
asking about roth withdrawals and rollover / tax - need to combine with tax loss harvesting
capital gains in roth
moving average
Looker:
- modelled queries : aggregate tables / quick start - copying from explore to model
- stacked charts
- optimizing queries
- appending results instead of rerunning
- persistent derived tables, aggregate awareness, and performantly joining views.
- derived table / new view for incremental PDT with trigger on created_date using a data group in the model
- aggregate tables must be persisted for aggregate awareness - it uses the smallest possible table for a view
- aggregate tables are a typre of PDT made available to the user as a refinement
- primary_key: yes
- minimal joins - you can have a regular join with 4 tables and a minimal join for just a subset of 2 tables.
- monitoring PDT in dev and prod under admin
Thoughts
Overwhelming organization of thoughts for someone else's need. It's better to accumulate your own thoughts, summarize, follow and only give away tiny bits here and there. Don't give gyan that someone is not asking you for - it's not the best use of your energy.
Several inspirations arise on top of regular responsibilities.
Responsibilities : rest/health. Z cleanliness , nutrition and engagement. Rat health. Work. Rat money partnership / education.
Inspirations : Investment knowledge from podcasts and coursera. AI. AWS. Fraud groups
Volunteering: Immigration
It would be great if I get to the office as it does help me focus on only the things I can do from there:
work, study, gym.
When meeting people the default plan is usually food and it involves spending without control. I think there's scope to rethink meeting people in a more healthy way - like a park or zoo. and also the introvert in me is super social suddenly and after folks leave, my head's almost ringing with an energy I can't calm down. Got to find a way to manage energy while engaging with people.
As much as I tend to focus on the positives, Z is not like an angel all the time and neither am I the best mom that can be. She scrams and throws food down sometimes. If I'm in a bad loop it can become a vicious circle. Some days, I stuff food so she can get a taste before she rejects. I have to hold her down like a escaping convict to brush her teeth, bathe her etc. I'm sure it will get better, but patience needs to be learnt again and again.
investment clarity:
put savings stuff in CDs. liquid.
put stocks stuff in indexes and bonds. not liquid.
leave some for experimentation.
understand expense ratio. understand what happens within an index fund. understand international index.
commodities.
