A Week In Review

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Once again, way too many things going on, and oftentimes, no time for a short reply to somebody’s email…

This post is a random collection of small things that happened last week; too small for separate blogs but still worth mentioning for this reason or the other…

  • The first time since I owned AirTags, I used it to find a missing object – the house keys, which fell out of my pocket when I hurried up to cross Sheridan before the light turned red. I only noticed it when I was approaching my home, but the FInd Me app showed a bold blue arrow leading to the place where I dropped them, and I quickly returned and found them.
  • Making dinner in the Youth shelter. I asked J. whether he was OK with peeling potatoes. He: I love peeling potatoes! I do it every Thanksgiving at home. I mean, I did it before I was kicked out…
  • Another exchange in the shelter. S.: I hate Florida! That’s where I was called n*** for the first time.
  • I remember when I made pumpkin pie for the first time, I used milk instead of the heavy cream and declared that “it turned just fine.” On Saturday, I made it with heavy cream. What can I say?!… the same as with Georgian Apple Cake – you can’t cheat when baking! If it’s heavy cream, then heavy cream it is! Makes a world of difference!
  • I took two pairs of boots for repair instead of throwing them away and buying new ones. Aside from the fact that I really liked one of these two pairs, my primary diver was a desire to minimize waste, so I am quite proud of myself!
  • I bought all my Secret Santa presents.
  • We made progress with the Pg Conf EU slides, so I almost stopped panicking.
  • I finally scheduled a plumber and had four annoying things fixed. All four were in my small shower, and it would take me several hours to fix them (although, technically speaking, I could fix them all). That’s something that was totally worth delegating!
  • The weather is so gorgeous, I do not know whom I should thank for it!
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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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