Mewsyngs of an Upstart Feline Miscreant

I have completed a life changing decision today-- I'm retiring early.

This isn't an irrevocable decision. If the economy tanks and I need to go back to work, I'll do that. But for the time being, I have enough in savings that I felt safe in closing out my current chapter at work. My manager was very understanding and we worked out a last day-- today-- that gave me plenty of time to wrap things up.

( Looking back on the Google years... )

Brace for impact... I'm finally getting around to unloading my camera pictures since I fell off the blogging boat mid-2018!

First up, my company had a dumplings-making workshop as a team-building/culture sort of thing. We didn't actually make the dumpling skins, which I had kind of hoped we would, just the filling, according to the recipes they gave. Some select pictures...

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A thing that the Google catering team does is to have "pop-up" community events at various campuses. These typically feature a large number of "social" venues like tents and sofas, a stage and speakers for live performances, and of course... food!

My team recently moved from Mountain View to Sunnyvale. As if to bid us farewell, they had a pop-up at Crittenden!

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The last event of the summer that I noted was this 'pop-up' -- basically a lot of chairs and "socially friendly" settings appeared on the grass in the middle of the campus, and there were tables serving up various snacks. Not a huge event, but it was nice. Hope they do this sort of thing more often!

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dracosphynx has been jonesing for a Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki ever since his trip to Japan. Unfortunately there aren't a lot of options for something so... specific. However, he did hear about this one restaurant nearby that serves it.

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This year the Google Kitsmas party was held at the USS Hornet museum up in Alameda. I dithered about going, nearly didn't-- I missed the 'RSVP' post, but wrote the party planners and was assured I should just pick up a wristband.

Overall it was a pretty good experience! The pictures, let me show you them.

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