--- title: "Taiwan is closer than I thought" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/taiwan-is-closer-than-i-thought.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/taiwan-is-closer-than-i-thought.html" published: "2004-04-21T19:19:00" updated: "2004-04-21T19:19:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "The past week has be *tough*. We found on on Sunday that my wife needs to leave for Taipei,Taiwan on Monday . That's right, the day after that. So, we were all busy and anxious to get all packing. Her job is sending her…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Taiwan is closer than I thought By Roy Osherove April 21, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published April 21, 2004; technical details may be outdated. The past week has be \*tough\*. We found on on Sunday that my wife needs to leave for Taipei,Taiwan on **Monday**. That's right, the day **after** that. So, we were all busy and anxious to get all packing. Her job is sending her off there for some client stuff. Should be back within two weeks That leaves me to take care of signing all the mortgage papers we were going to do together, and all the other nitty gritty stuff that she seems to do so much more easily that me. **I miss you honey**, and love you. Come back soon _(but not too soon. I'm liking this “stay up 'ill late clicking on the keyboard” thing without bothering/waking anyone up...)_ Heh. Before she went away I secretly took are brand new digital camera _(that, most importantly, can shoot small videos too)_ and took 2 short videos into the flash memory. One of them was our Cat, Zion, in his best sleeping position, looking at the camera with contempt, as if saying “_who the hell are you_” with a french accent (no offense). The other one was me miming out “I love you and miss you and hug you and shed tears for your leaving” _(“Shed tears” is a classic mime thing. You reach with your hand into your eye and make beliefe tear drops are falling into your other hand. Yah, I'm artistic like that)_. So now she'll never forget what her two favorite slobs look like. _Darling, we will always have Zion_ ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Apr 26, 2004 ### [My big, fat, photoblog cat](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/26/my-big-fat-photoblog-cat.html) - Apr 23, 2004 ### [What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/23/what-add-ins-would-you-like-to-see-in-the-contest.html) - Apr 21, 2004 ### [Simple and addicting game](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/simple-and-addicting-game.html) - Apr 21, 2004 ### [SMSpam](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/smspam.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/