Character: Echo 🐶

Our second dog. Echo arrived in our life just before the COVID-19 lockdown in the year 2020. The most gentle and friendly dog that I have come across.
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Weekly Notes 43/2025

We are back in Bengaluru. We drove back on Sunday, so traffic would be light since it was in the middle of the long weekend. The drive was comfortable. We took three breaks, primarily for me and Echo to stretch. Back from a slow Deepavali weekend, work is getting hectic as we approach...

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Weekly Notes 41/2025

The first half of the week was hectic. I am taking a week off from work (Wed to Wed), so the work week was busy as I tried to close as many loops as possible. The idea is to spend time with family in Thrissur; otherwise, Uma has holidays and gets to enjoy...

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Weekly Notes 40/2025

We are in Thrissur and will be here for some time. The drive from Bengaluru was comfortable and good. We left at 2:10 AM and reached our destination at 10:25 AM, covering approximately 500 km in 8 hours, including brief stops. I think that’s a very good average on Indian roads. I was...

Dog at park 3

Weekly Notes 15/2025

We went to Cubbon Park on Saturday with Echo. Now that we have three beings who need attention at home, Echo gets the least. So we made plans to go for a walk only with him like last year – WN 13/2024. He had lots of fun. We need to do this often.  

Echo finished his Gotcha Day cake in no time. 3

Weekly Notes 12/2025

We returned from Langkawi on Wednesday after a week-long vacation. It was a good trip. I had nearly a thousand unread emails, both work and personal when we returned. Around 80% of them are non-critical – newsletters, alerts from GitHub, issue trackers, etc. But I believe in inbox zero, so I had to...

Espresso martini at Frangipani Langkawi Resorts 1

Weekly Notes 11/2025

The first half of the week was busy, with most of the time, including some weekend hours, spent closing work TODOs. But now that we’re in Langkawi, it’s all good :)