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Four star evening! Taking away one star as it is a little chilly at 60F.

My boy is back. @wrenman

While watching the highlights of stage 7 of Giro d’Italia, noticed someone flying the confederate flag in Italy. WTF!?!?

This photo of Rosette nebula that I posted last week is featured on my company’s internal website as “Photo of the week” from colleagues.

I found out yesterday that Jerry Springer died two weeks ago. So sorry to hear that. He was a very interesting personality - going from being a progressive politician to king of trash TV.

This is a bad side effect of not consuming news - I don’t learn about important happenings like this.

Periwinkle and Cinquefoil growing in my yard.

In 17th and 18th century the supply of nails was strictly controlled by the British empire. For people in American colonies, moving from an old house involved burning it down to recover all the nails to build the new house.

Heard in an interview with Roma Agrawal on 99%Invisible.

Want to read: Nuts and Bolts by Roma Agrawal 📚

Completed another lap around the Sun, successfully! 🖖🏽 ✌🏽

Hey @mikehaynes : Loving your micro.blog theme “Outpost”. Thanks for sharing!

Went for my birthday ride a couple of days early. Started this tradition of riding the same number of miles as my age. Let’s see how many more years I can continue this.

link to Strava

I have planned a 2-day trip to Texas this Fall. I must make sure that before leaving, I have my will and all the other documents in order. Who knows if I will return alive from Texas?

Last night was the year-end concert of Connecticut Youth Symphony. It was one of the best concerts that I have ever attended. These high-schoolers really hit it out of the park last night.

It started out with “To uncertainty” - a modern piece composed by a student at University of Hartford. I have yet to learn to appreciate modern classical music made by composers who are alive right now. Thankfully, it was short.

Second offering by the group took it at least 10 notches higher. The violin soloist Mindy Zhao was super impressive. She won the yearly concerto competition with this Mendelssohn violin concerto and they orchestra accompanied her beautifully in this performance. Considering that Mindy is only a sophomore in high school, she has a lot of music greatness in her future.

After a brief intermission, CYS played the best music of the evening - Tchaikovsky’s 5th symphony. Four movements spanned over 45 minutes and it was just amazing. The wind section did a fantastic job and the strings accompanied them admirably. The whole performance was so beautiful and moving that even the conductor couldn’t contain his emotions and was in tears at the end.

According to my son who played viola in this performance, the first two movements of this symphony are the two best symphonic movements ever. Check out Tchaikovsky’s 5th if you haven’t listened to it yet.

My son had an enriching experience and he grew as a musician playing in the “Opus 83” string ensemble last year and in the CYS this year. Sad to see that this chapter in his musical life is ending. But, looking forward to more great classical music as he joins the orchestra at Davidson college this Fall.

Pretty young leaves all around me on this warm sunny spring day.

Watched a movie - “Bridesmaids”. My favorite was the cyber security lady. She was the funniest of all. I was quite certain that the main character was played by Rachel from “Friends”. Couldn’t believe my eyes when the credits rolled and turned out that she was a different woman.

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For a long time, I used to bite my nails to a point where they started bleeding. About 12-13 years ago, I decided to stop doing that. Now, every week as I trim my fingernails, I tell myself that I don’t have to worry about any addiction, I’ll be able to stop doing anything if I want to.