After a bit over one month back in Berkeley, things are back the way they should be. I am getting settled into my job back at UC Berkeley with Educational Technology Services (ETS) as a Systems Administrator. Even better yet, I am no longer being paid peanuts to support the entire IT department for my group. Of course, the challenge now is to standardize and stablize the environment at my new job while juggling learning new things and carrying on new projects. The most fun part is dealing with more instances of Microsoft software, something that I would much rather not see much of when I work.

Along the home front, the house is getting back to normal also with the return of Shareena and myself. Shareena has been busy cleaning up the inside of the house with some help from Olivia, while I have been cleaning up the yard that has grown unkempt for the better part of nine months. So far, things are going well on the inside and the outside is slowly coming around as well. Other than the occassional large boxes (for a new desk for Shareena and a dresser for Swati’s room), Shareena stuff is stacked inside her room and so the house no longer suffers from clutter mania.

So the next steps for me are to start playing basketball again at the RSF and to try to get Shareena outside and exercising some more now that she has cleaned up the house and will have some time to take a break from school/work and do some stuff that she likes (reading, sleeping, cooking) along with some research to do some minor home improvements. So it should be some more good times as things get back to normal.

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