I’ve recently been reprimanded by a friend, who draw my attention to the fact that I haven’t posted here for a while. Well, not reprimanded, really: it was a very sweet note inquiring whether I was ok. I’m sure the thought hasn’t crossed people who follows me on Twitter, as I’ve been very active over […]
Well, I’ve been back from Madeira for a while, but it took me a moment to organize the notes and pictures. The journey has been challenging, for a whole set of reasons including a big question mark around my health, but overall I’m satisfied, and I was able to check a couple of things I […]
Well, I’ve been silent, I know. I’m in a good enough place to know that, just because no one asked, it doesn’t mean no one noticed. I know you did. ’cause you did, didn’t you? It would be easy enough to say I’ve been busy with work, but that would be just a part of […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Do you remember when we started, before going down the rabbit hole of the Heike Monogatari? I was taking a look at the Japanese Ghost Tales by Lafcadio Hearn, so today let’s take a look at the second tale of the collection, which is perfect because it’s also tragic and romantic. It’s […]
Just a quick update to let you know that we spiked so much that we had to resize the chart. This was before New Year’s Eve: This is today. We are around 170.800 new cases. In one day. The death toll is stationary, hospitalizations are going up steadily but not spiking. Yet. On the eleventh […]
I haven’t posted a global update in a while and I rarely take a look at that dashboard anymore, at least until we get a new one with vaccination rates. Still, it’s due to record some picures, once in a while, since this has turned out to be something like Anne Franke’s diary (hopefully, with […]
Well, Easter is in one week and, as announced, all of Italy will be made into a red zone. I remind you that when you’re red you basically have to justify that you’re getting out of the house because you really really need to, you can’t visit friends and you can only visit relatives if […]
Last week‘s problems did not go away, but they were not resolved either. They stayed there, festering like infected wounds, and this casted a shade of immobility on the whole week, a week otherwise plagued by more troubles, more bad news and a general lack of improvement on all fronts. Yesterday evening the football team […]
This week has been tough, and I feel like I failed. Failed as a friend, as a mentor, and leader. Although I consider myself to be a rather accomplished professional, it’s no big news: we can put it there, right next to all my other failures and they can chat amongst each other at night. […]
Well, I spent the whole week in quarantine and I must say that my week didn’t change much. Sure, I wasn’t able to go to the laundry and pick up some stuff that has been there for at least a month, but they’re used to it, by now. Sure, I had to scare the delivery […]