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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · May 3

have heard myself say "next week looks a little lighter so i should be able to follow up on this" for about two months straight now

but next week i should definitely be able to catch up

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 16h

bravely staying up past midnight on a weekday as long as i am surrounded with clocks showing 3pm

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 21h

seriously tho i am so jetlagged and i was following the Monday travel and meeting schedule but Monday didn't exist in my personal timeline

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 21h

smugly scrolling past the Columbus Day discourse on the timeline because i am so enlightened that i simply refused to experience Monday this week

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d

trying my best

Sign in English and Chinese: don't look only at your mobile phone

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 1d

sleep issues so profound that a 14 hour flight and corresponding time zone shift actually fixes me

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

the key to packing is to balance out the hyperbolic pessimism (three pairs of underwear per travel day) with hyperbolic optimism (3 full sets of workout attire per week)

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

seats are so far away. it's a long, long way down.

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

how do you not all have neck problems

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

stole the kiddo's periscope kit and walked around my apartment at 6'2" viewing height for a bit. jesus christ, how do you Talls live like this.

Sneaky scoping

A picture of a child looking over a fence with their periscope goggles.

Put on your periscope and take a peek...

up high

Get a good view that's taller than you!

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

(yes i am still procrastinating on packing)

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

feeling nervy about the strategic strawberry jam reserves

a cutting board covered in 11 pint jars and 3 half pint jars of canned strawberry jam

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

if it wasn't for procrastinating packing for an international flight, i would never find time to recondition my butcher block and organize my kitchen cabinets

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 2d

"If you lose an item inside your seat, please call for assistance"

me [distraught, whispering to a flight attendant]: my crab

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 2d

i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 2d

We rarely buy anything in airport duty free but I was very tempted by a LIVE HAIRY CRAB

A refrigerated display case of hairy crabs in Shanghai Pudong airport, each tied with string to stop them escaping

A close up of hairy crabs in a Shanghai Airport refrigerated display case tied with string to stop them escaping

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 3d

either the airline sent my check-in email a full day early or i have once again bungled basic time conversion

if your email says 24 hours until your flight you cannot send at midnight the day before for an 11pm flight without scaring the shit out of some people!!

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 3d

6:55pm, just five more minutes to bedtime

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 4d

to be fair, toddlers are extremely dramatic, and I got away with it

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 4d

when the kiddo was in preschool and I was watching a lot of historical cdramas, I was trying to tell his teachers about a conflict he had with a fellow toddler and my brain could only come up with blood feud

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 4d

watching a modern cdrama to improve my language fluency and I'm about 10% better in business and social situations and 1000% better at devastating put downs towards my future daughter-in-law who is not the same social class and station as me

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6d

I'm afraid that I have -- once again -- dramatically overestimated my productivity and have fallen far behind on my goals.

But tomorrow, I'll totally be able to do all the things I didn't do today plus all of tomorrow's tasks, right?

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6d

thank you for your service

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6d

never going to make it to staff parent if i don't get my shit together

Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6d

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6d

if anyone else needs executive leadership coaching, he's got some slots available after peewee soccer

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Ronnie Chen @ronnieftw.bsky.social · 6d

the utter humiliation of trying to do my engineering leadership job after getting brutally roasted by my 5 year old this morning for not asking him to get ready for school "kindly, and with confidence"

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