Editing Blog/2024-12-31/End of the Year (section)

== January ==

Julie and I spent New Year's Day last year in Torres Del Paine, hiking up to Mirado Britanico and then to Refugio Paine Grande - the mountain lodge.

[[File:{{#setmainimage:Julie + Roshan - Mirador Britanico.jpg}}|thumb|center|I rushed Julie to this point saying that we needed to get there before the trail closed. Fact: there was no one to close it]]

We use to live just off 4th Street in San Francisco's SOMA district. The building we were in had some 14 units or so (with each one built as a loft). Ours was on the top floor and we'd wake up to views of downtown San Francisco. We moved out of there just as the tall building at 555 4th St started being built.

[[File:Welsh St View of Downtown SF.png|thumb|center|You can see the crane in the shot]]

Around that time, Canadian-Indian relations weren't so hot because of the Khalistan issue and the killing of a Khalistani leader. This particular issue would cause us some annoyance since it made it harder for my parents to get a visa to Canada to go see my uncles and aunts who live there.

[[File:Truck with Khalistan propaganda on the Bay Bridge.jpg|thumb|center|That day was really something]]

[[File:Khalistan Flagged Jeep in the Bay Area.jpg|thumb|center|They had jeeps too]]

SOMA is full of event spaces and things like that, so one fun thing that happened was that Julie was walking home one day when she saw that there was a LiveRamp event happening at Thriller Social Club - which is on the corner of the street we live on. So we stopped by and had some of them over since another friend of ours from LiveRamp was staying with us that week - a pleasant coincidence.

[[File:Slice of Thriller Social Club.png|thumb|center|The music here is very loud.]]