Trying to catch up the time lost yesterday, I started at 5:00 AM, though it was quite different from normal routine: I was sitting at the desk on which the laptop could be connected to modem directly in my son's room.
Another co-worker I worked with pretty closely due to some old stuff my retired backup left sent me an e-mail in which her son's image was embedded. Oh, I forgot to mention she had started going to her son's baseball games every Friday to cheer for him while filming the video clips and taking the photos. Her son sounded a college baseball star playing first base. Oh, it's easy for me to write but a long trip for her during every weekend: Yes, her son plays for a very good private liberal & Arts school in Southern California.
Working from home was a little bit more flexible because the whole environment was less intense. I did catch up a lot of stuff within 12 hours. At the end of the working, I called Dennis to check the progress, he mentioned that he replaced the parts and belt but heard noise from somewhere he was still trying to find out. He might be able to finish it tonight but I prepared it might roll into tomorrow morning. I probably would stay at home at least for another half a day and asked him to take time.
I shared some general thoughts and observations with my alumni in our chatting group last Friday, which was triggered by Officer Peter Liang's case: some people are very rational, even they are on the verge of losing the games, they can make the rivals feel the opposites, so these people often can survive in the last second because their rivals are scared to flee. However, if you don't care of anything, you always can wait until the last second, then everyone else will lose. Using myself as an example, in my life since childhood, I have almost died five times, the most recent one was two years and a half ago, what else am I scared? how long can't I wait? If my assumed rivals keep trying to test my limit, they will lose very ugly at the end. I won't leave the table until I see all of them fading. This is a valuable experience I learned in my life of 50 years.
Due to the inconveniences I had in the last two days, I hadn't paid attention to the reactions on Officer Liang's case until tonight after I read a string of chats in my alumni group. Chinese communities seemed pumping up. A nationwide rally on February 20th is being proposed and organized. As the epicenter, Chinese in New York City are absolutely the most inspired. However, until today, I still hadn't seen any major media reporting this case. If you guys don't care my concern, I don't care you.
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