June 2018 – John Canessa

I typically get a couple dozen technical books for each non technical. I purchased via Amazon “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. I saw it mention while reading an article in Medium. It took me less than a week to read the book. The subject is very well known to me. Will explain why it is the case in the following paragraphs.

I was born in Lima, Peru. My parents left Europe in the 1930s in search of a better life. I had three siblings. One of the twins graduated from college as an international attorney and passed away months after. My other two sisters are physicians. One continued her studies in the USA and Europe. Today she is a professor at an Ivy League school spending time in a lab in China at a well know university. I came to this country over 40 years ago with a scholarship to attend an Ivy League school in New York.

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20,000 American Flags are displayed for every resident of Massachusetts who died in a war over the past 100 years, Boston Common, Boston, MA, Memorial Day, 2011

It is a beautiful day in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul part of the Memorial Day 2018 weekend. The forecast calls for very warm days. On Monday the temperature will be reaching 95F. My wife and I decided to go for a walk first thing in the morning. Today Saturday we got up at our usual time (05:30 AM CDT), had breakfast (yogurt, granola, blueberries, strawberries, bananas and a cup of milk with a shot of espresso) and headed out. As the walk progressed, we ran into several people getting their daily walk out of the way in order to avoid the high temperatures. Showered and sat in front of my computer. I will be working for the next four hours or so. This afternoon my wife and I will attempt a walk around one of the lakes in Minneapolis. Will be very hot but we are planning on a stroll and a stop for ice cream and water. Continue reading “CRUD Minus R on Mongo DB”