Snow in DC
While 2023 was seemingly a year of nonstop travel, 2024 has... not been so far. In fact I've been in the US since New Year's Day, and more or less will be for the foreseeable future. Last year I was able to finagle frequent work trips to Asia and teleworking from the Philippines, with the trade-off being that this year I need to do much less of that, at least for now. Instead, I'm back in the DC area, and have more or less completed the long, slow move that began last May. In many ways that's nice- I finally have an apartment I can call my own, in a fun neighborhood in Alexandria, and I get to reestablish friendships and networks that sort of lay dormant while I was living in Asia. If Nikki was here living with me I don't think I'd mind it much at all. Alas, the US immigration system is terrible, with the glacially slow processing of spousal visas being among the least of its sins. If nothing else it's an excuse to take things easy and catch up on work, p