• Dates: 2026-11-01 – present
  • Status: unfinished
  • Importance: 7

Here’s where I’ve been spending time recently:1

  1. Work
  2. Life essentials/logistics: lately, green card, marriage certificate, dental insurance, plus usual chores
    1. New interest: taking a bigger role in the daily planning and prepping our cooking/meals
  3. Eating dinner and watching TV with my wife on weeknights, and planning and doing Fibo-friendly weekend activities like pumpkin farm visits and birthdays
  4. Walking with Fibo and my wife in the mornings, and doing shoulder and thumb rehab exercises while Fibo runs around at the dog park
  5. Texting with and hanging out with family and friends, old and new
  6. Reading about Massachusetts politics (we just had the blue wave election of 2026!), discussing AI-drug discovery with friends, writing blog posts/side projects, and playing games/watching sports (let’s do less of this last one)
  7. Playing volleyball twice per week
  8. Bike commuting around Boston on weekdays (to HMS or to cowork with friends) and walking around HMS
  9. Figuring out how to balance it all and savor each experience

It’s enough to keep a man busy — that’s for sure. But overall it’s fun and rewarding.

Footnotes

  1. I enjoy journaling throughout the day about what I’ve done and sometimes using Toggl to track my time down to the hour. It’s nice to pause and savor what I’ve done/experienced instead of just rushing from one activity to the next. Time tracking also helps me know whether I’m spending time on the things I consider most important. I may come back and do one of these posts every few months. ↩