The Rick Umali Blog

As I write this, we're about two weeks away from the first game of the 2026 World Cup. I'm slowly getting excited. It's like the...

On my long solo drives from NJ to MA, I sometimes get tired and drowsy. This can be very dangerous! Between 2011 and 2015, some 2.5% of driv...

I started a new job recently. This is my eighth job since finishing college in 1990. And if I count my computer-related jobs from when I was...

I consider myself an experienced airline traveler. Years of flying around the country for work back in the early 2000s made air travel routi...

In 2025, I read 21 books (LibraryThing) and watched 83 movies (Letterboxd) (15 were rewatches). My favorite book: The Human Stain (Philip ...

In the Summer of 1987, I worked in New York City, doing data entry for a printing company (Automatech Graphics Corporation). This was the Su...

I am a right-handed person. My wife is a left-handed person. Because of this, I have become a little more sensitive to the nature of being ...