It was a balmy July night in Bneid Al-Gar, a neighborhood in Kuwait City overlooking the Persian Gulf. Kuwait could be oppressively hot in the summer but I recall summer evenings being tolerably warm and sometimes nice. I loved Kuwait at night. …
From the perspective of a UX research manager
Over the past year, I’ve written a lot about preparing for interviews for UXR positions. Here’s one spot where you can find all that content:
Fireplace progress, painting, and a fabricated bathroom countertop.
I’m less than 10 days away from moving in and this past week was a flurry of progress. I made a trip to the house almost every day this week to approve various decisions.
The most exciting thing to see come together this week was all the progress on the…
Hello again! It’s time for me to update you on my home renovations in extraordinarily minute detail. It’s been two weeks since my last update … mostly because week 13 was very quiet but last week was very eventful.
Week 13: August 2, 2021
With all the delays in materials due to the pandemic, scheduling…
Painting closets, cleaning the chimney, and installing bathroom tile.
We had a busy couple of weeks and the bathroom is slowly starting to look like a bathroom and not a construction zone. Here are updates from the last two weeks of renovations:
Week 11: July 19, 2021
This week, the crew removed the old mailbox and installed a new one. The contractor had suggested…
A tub, a new move-in date, and a structural report.
I know you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the latest updates in my home renovations.
Not so much? :)
In any case, the past three weeks have been very busy with various projects and decisions. So busy that I’ve been tardy with my updates both here and on Instagram…
Tile progress and a missing tub
This week, the construction and tile crew got to work on the tile in the kitchen. I’m blessed in that the prior homeowner had done a lot of renovations to the home, especially in the kitchen. But I wasn’t in love with the kitchen backsplash or the kitchen pendants. A…
When I first started this publication/blog, my intention was to write about the process of renovating the house pretty regularly. Alas, between work, the actual renovations, and life . . . time got away from me. …
Whether it is the Vice President or a colleague, there’s no excuse for mispronouncing people’s names.
You may have missed it in the chaos of the 2020 Election and the pandemic but last October, David Perdue, a senator from Georgia, mocked Kamala Harris’ name at a Trump rally. After intentionally butchering her name, Perdue ended his remarks with, “I don’t know, whatever.” The crowd laughed because…
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We had the day off yesterday so an outing to Santa Cruz was in order. It was gorgeous! We even spotted an otter playing in Monterrey Bay. Before the pandemic, I always took the Bay Area’s proximity to beaches for granted. Now I’m really grateful that I can see…
