8/29/15

1. Re-watching the second half of Stardust.
2. Picking up the trash cans and compost bin that we needed from The Container Store.
3. Grand Central Bakery having my two favorite kinds of bread there.
4. DR bringing us a lemon lavender pound cake that she'd made as a housewarming gift.
5. Dan making pasta with broccoli, chicken, and sun-dried tomatoes for dinner.
6. Binge-watching Daredevil on Netflix.

A year ago today.

8/28/15

1. Going back upstairs to sleep a bit more after spending the night on the couch downstairs with the A/C to cool down my fever.
2. Staying to work from home.
3. Throwing together a lunch from noodles, freezer kale and pesto, and a CSA tomato.
4. Watching You're Under Arrest DVD from Netflix.
5. Watching the season 2 You're Under Arrest episodes on Hulu.
6. Re-watching Stardust.

A year ago today.

8/27/15

1. Remembering to wear my Harry Potter shirt and put in contacts for the Harry Potter glasses.
2. Rescheduling pairing with KY to the afternoon when I'd forgotten we were going to do it in the morning.
3. DS coming in as a special guest for stitching lunch (and for me to return her plug adapter to her).
4. Getting a burrito for dinner at Mi Mero Mole and reading my book.
5. Holding out to go to the happy hour at Departure for our own HPMOR wrap-up party.
6. Taking an Uber home to get home more quickly to go to bed.

A year ago today.

8/26/15

1. Making it in plenty of time to grab a seat at the women* lunch.
2. Going for a walk with JM.
3. Getting a smoothie for Kure.
4. Hanging out with the guys from the PDX.rb book club even though I hadn't caught up on the reading.
5. Having Dan's lentil stew for dinner.
6. Getting to call the downstairs unpacked!

A year ago today.

8/25/15

1. Someone else having taken all the trash bins out.
2. Doing some pruning of the dead parts of plants in my garden.
3. Several people noticing my "Likers Gonna Like" tank top and also finding it humorous.
4. Making some headway into figuring out why our test builds have been breaking.
5. Only taking half an hour to get through the tool library late loans calls.
6. Unpacking my books downstairs and discovering that I do have my old copy of Anne of Green Gables still.

A year ago today.

8/24/15

1. Feeling pretty well-rested in the morning.
2. Unpacking in the morning and going through the mail to get the house in the order after being away.
3. E-San for lunch, roast duck pad see euw along with a Thai iced tea bubble tea where the tapioca pearls were actually quite nicely soft, for the most part.
4. Getting AM's updated travel schedule.
5. Coming home to see that someone else had put the trash and recycling bins out on the curb.
6. Throwing together a decent dinner with noodles, tomatoes from my garden, and frozen kale/Swiss chard.

A year ago today.

8/23/15

1. Seeing a fair number of Dan’s family at breakfast.
2. Delicious corned beef hash for lunch.
3. Catching up with BBL/DL and walking around Lansdowne.
4. Hitting 50lbs. exactly for the stuff in Dan’s luggage.
5. Re-reading Copperskin on my Kindle.
6. Plenty of time to get a roast beef sandwich from Potbelly during our layover at MDW.

A year ago today.

8/22/15

1. Getting dim sum with my mom/sister/grandma.
2. Being able to wear shorts underneath my slip.
3. Putting my hair up in an Annie Hall-style bun with my rose gold large barrette.
4. Surprisingly not humid and quite comfortable temperature in the shade at the wedding.
5. Plenty of passed hors d’oeuvres to make up dinner.
6. Not staying out too late.

A year ago today.

8/21/15

1. Buying Seinfeld tickets for my mom as an early Christmas present. Decent seats too, after the second later show opened up.
2. Red shrimp for lunch.
3. Finishing going through my boxes in the basement.
4. Re-reading some of my old manga comics like You’re Under Arrest.
5. Dan taking me to the Hobby Shop so we could use some of the gift card credit from last year’s Amex Small Business Saturday.
6. CB having bug spray with her so I could stop getting quite so many insect bites.

A year ago today.

8/20/15

1. Working on pulling together a doc of experiments to run.
2. Thinking ahead to pack a change of clothes for the spa later.
3. Dinner with Dan/CK/LK.
4. Dan being able to swing by with my bag while I was waiting for my sister to pick me up.
5. Very new and clean facilities at Island Spa, a new Korean spa.
6. Randomly getting sucked in to a Korean drama that was playing in their cafe, Coffee Prince.

A year ago today.

8/19/15

1. Working from Google for the day to see people.
2. Catching up with JE/AS.
3. Going shopping with AT.
4. Stopping by Muji and picking up some really cheap but good-looking soap dispensers.
5. Walking back up to Penn Station.
6. My sister coming to pick me up from the train station, despite the somewhat late hour.

A year ago today.

8/18/15

1. Figuring out how to modify the charts in Google Spreadsheets to make them prettier and more useful to look at.
2. EH running an awesome tutorial on NRQL.
3. Starting to go through some of my boxes in the basement.
4. Opening up the bottle of wine I brought back from South Africa for CB.
5. Talking Dan into ordering something different from me.
6. Dan driving me home since I wasn’t going to make the train from Rutherford.

A year ago today.

8/17/15

1. Waking up at a reasonable-ish hour feeling well-rested.
2. Having a toasted stuffed flaky bun of...something, for breakfast.
3. Working in my pajamas for most of the day.
4. Not being too difficult to figure out how to use derailed_benchmarks to run some experiments.
5. Going bowling with my mom/sister/Dan.
6. Getting at least a few strikes in.

A year ago today.

8/16/15

1. Picking up dumplings for breakfast from my parents’ when we dropped off our luggage.
2. Seeing SD’s place and hanging out with him and E.
3. Pretty flat bike ride out to the Coney Island beach.
4. Having a fun time throwing a Frisbee back and forth with SD.
5. Being in the right places to mostly avoid the rain.
6. Watermelon at my parents’.

A year ago today.

8/15/15

1. Managing to finishing packing and get the place ready for my cousin’s visit.
2. Perfect timing for catching the bus and the Max to get to the airport.
3. Listening to music from Southwest’s wifi.
4. Snacking on the CSA plums I brought with me.
5. Avoiding hunger with Dan’s packed sunbutter-banana sandwiches.
6. Falling asleep quickly despite getting in to the hotel so late.

A year ago today.

8/14/15

1. Getting to Alberta in time to catch the bus to get to the dentist’s on time.
2. Not waiting too long with AM at the DMV.
3. Craigslist guy offering to deliver the grill!
4. Being able to get home to receive a delivery of the grill.
5. Watching the Anne of Green Gables sequel with KY/EA.
6. Refraining from eating the ice cream sandwich because I was too full from dinner already.

A year ago today.

8/13/15

1. Doing some unpacking in the morning while it was still cool upstairs.
2. Blueberries for breakfast.
3. Lunch at Mi Mero Mole.
4. Dan taking care of the vacuuming of the back stairs at the old place.
5. Getting the downstairs pretty much arranged in order.
6. Doing a couple loads of laundry finally.

A year ago today.

8/12/15

1. Mailing out a package to CC.
2. Getting to the old place in plenty of time to peel off the old wall stickers and collect the last few items around.
3. Dan picking me up from SE.
4. Throwing together a vegetable stir-fry with noodles for dinner.
5. Getting white peach sorbet and a passionfruit macaronut (macaron + donut) to meet the minimum purchase for watching the movie.
6. Watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at a restaurant's outdoor courtyard area.

A year ago today.

8/11/15

1. Successfully dialing in to the training being conducted in SF in the end.
2. Getting a Rachel sandwich at Supa for lunch.
3. Figuring out the answer to a support ticket question on my own, through reading the code.
4. Sitting with AG on the bus home and chatting.
5. AM arriving in Portland!
6. Surprisingly good Walla Walla onion and eggplant stir-fry to go with noodles for dinner.

A year ago today.

8/10/15

1. Getting in with some time to spare before a 9:30 interview.
2. Using an interview candidate lunch to go get a burger from Burger Week.
3. Getting treated to hazelnut gelato at Spella by LA.
4. Really well-attended book club meeting.
5. Hilarious time at the Anonymous Theater, doing On the Porch and The Real Inspector Hound.
6. Not taking too long while working with Dan to get the downstairs in shape for AM to move in.

A year ago today.

8/9/15

1. Sleeping in again.
2. Heating up my leftover half of burrito from last night as breakfast.
3. Getting a bit of unpacking work done before heading out to the Wilco concert.
4. Snagging a spot on the hill so no need to stand up.
5. Getting my book club reading and mail done while waiting for the concert to start.
6. Getting out really quickly, no wait at all.

A year ago today.

8/8/15

1. Sleeping in a bit to finally start catching up on sleep.
2. Fitting everything into the cargo van, including all the plants!
3. Finding a neat way to set up the hose at the new place, did it between the slats of the front steps.
4. Getting the turkey goblet sandwich at Oasis Cafe for lunch.
5. Figuring out a satisfactory arrangement of furniture for the craft room.
6. Watching Anne of Green Gables with KY/EA.

A year ago today.

8/7/15

1. Getting to the SE apartment just as our buyer from Craigslist got there.
2. Didn't need to take the large wardrobe apart to get it out of the apartment.
3. Organizing all the remaining stuff for easier moving.
4. Dan coming by to give me a ride home before his evening activities.
5. Throwing together a dinner from noodles and frozen meatballs/vegetables.
6. Re-reading The Goblin Emperor.

A year ago today.

8/6/15

1. Returning some purchases to Nordstrom and picking up The Goblin Emperor at Powell's.
2. The customer info guy at Powell's insisting on looking up the aisles number for a book for me and then finding out the copy of the book listed on the website had been sold, saving me from frustratedly looking for it.
3. Dan giving me a ride to SE.
4. Picking up a library book, getting copies of the new key made, and finishing my Hep A/B shots finally.
5. Leftover broccoli rabe pasta made by Dan for dinner.
6. Putting the bed frame together at the new place.

A year ago today.

8/5/15

1. Making good use of the free wifi at the airport before boarding my flight.
2. Watching Far From The Madding Crowd on the plane.
3. Going to my parents' and having dumplings for lunch on my layover.
4. My dad going out to get watermelon for me.
5. My mom packing me dinner to bring to the airport, ribs with rice and bok choy.
6. No trouble falling asleep after getting home in Portland.

A year ago today.

8/4/15

1. Buying tour tickets and getting to the hotel right on schedule.
2. Being able to check in early and take a quick shower.
3. Sailing past the line to get into the Pergamonmuseum with my timed ticket.
4. Making it to the meeting point for the tour on time.
5. Really interesting stories on the Underground Berlin tour of the Berlin Wall escape tunnels.
6. Taking a break on the lawn of the Reichstag.

A year ago today.

8/3/15

1. Taking care of gift buying at the coffee roastery.
2. Successfully meeting up with the walking tour group hallway through their tour.
3. Good currywurst and ice cream for an afternoon snack
4. Visiting the Google Hamburg office.
5. Dinner with AS and M.
6. Taking a car to get back to their apartment after walking so much over the day.

A year ago today.

8/2/15

1. Waking up with plenty of time in the morning to do a last run-through of my talk, have breakfast, put makeup on, and pack.
2. Really pleased personally with how my talk went, and lots of positive responses too!
3. Running into a eurucamp attendee on the train in to Berlin.
4. Getting a doner pide for dinner at the train station.
5. Finding out that texting German phone numbers works on my phone still.
6. AS and M coming to pick me up from a different station after I overshot the intended one.

A year ago today.

8/1/15

1. Sleeping in a bit in the morning.
2. Getting to the conference in time before the second morning block of talks started up again.
3. Very cool short talk by the stenographer at the conference about what she's doing for live transcription of the talks at the conference.
4. Joining a cross-stitch activity group in the afternoon.
5. Conference organizers putting out leftover box lunches, so I snagged one to have for dinner.
6. Really cool talk to end the day with live coding to play musics.

A year ago today.