10/30/13

1. Having some time in the morning to do optional stuff like attend a practice talk and read through client visit write-ups.
2. Calling the Chase business card reconsideration line and getting approved for the Southwest card.
3. Making it in to the meeting room in the nick of time.
4. Going out for happy hour and getting to know KM better.
5. Ranting to Dan over videochat.
6. Picking up a bag of candy from the supermarket in case trick-or-treaters do come around tomorrow.

A year ago today.

10/29/13

1. Walking out to the food carts with the team to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine, even if I didn't need to buy lunch.
2. Getting a hot chocolate at just the right temperature on the afternoon coffee walk.
3. Helping MAS fix up the week 1 plan for KL starting next week.
4. Maker night at the office and seeing other people's knitting projects.
5. Getting into bed early to get warm.
6. Getting sleepy by going through cookbooks to mark up recipes I want to try.

A year ago today.

10/28/13

1. Sunny bike ride in to the office.
2. Closing out both of my own pull requests.
3. JD helping me adjust the brakes on my bike so they wouldn't squeak so much.
4. Door guard at Fred Meyer's keeping an eye on my bike when I got there and realized I left my bike lock at the office.
5. Discovering the music video for Sara Bareilles' Brave--joyful and delightful.
6. Thinking to store the enormous quantity of soup I made in empty quart canning jars.

A year ago today.

10/27/13

1. Using BBL's trick of adding a bit of water to my scrambled eggs to make them fluffier without milk.
2. Sun coming out for a bit in the afternoon as I ran my errands.
3. Local library being open on Sundays.
4. Learning the layout of the local supermarket a bit better so less back-tracking than usual while shopping for groceries.
5. Making up two batches of pear vanilla jam.
6. Putting on a warm bathrobe fresh from the dryer.

A year ago today.

10/26/13

1. Sleeping in...a lot.
2. Having remaining beet-avocado salad for lunch.
3. Making avocado toast with remaining bread.
4. Sun coming out for the afternoon.
5. Lounging on the couch watching Hawaii 5-0.
6. Baking up a couple frozen biscuits to have with peach jam for late night snack.

A year ago today.

10/25/13

1. Getting more of JK's help to write up tests.
2. Another day of free lunch.
3. Pies being added to the dessert spread for lunch.
4. Video-chatting with AJ at lunch.
5. Catching the awards handed out at the end of the conference, several of which went to Hackbright people!
6. Spending some time playing around with one of the balloon dirigibles.

A year ago today.

10/24/13

1. Learning a ton from JK about setting up tests.
2. Free lunch of fajita fixings, yum.
3. Staying at the office for the "Olympics" events.
4. My team winning at the nerf gun challenge.
5. Not eating all of the remaining squash galette after I was full.
6. Breaking down and buying Hawaii 5-0 from the iTunes store.

A year ago today.

10/23/13

1. Avocado for mixing up the beet-avocado salad at lunch not being too badly bruised.
2. JK helping me figure out the cause for the other bug I had been looking at.
3. Actually having enough plastic bags for all the CSA items.
4. Fitting the entire CSA share into my panniers.
5. Rolling out the pastry dough more thinly than when I made the squash galette over the weekend.
6. Remembering to add in more salt, sage, and parmesan cheese to the filling this time.

A year ago today.

10/22/13

1. Another sunny day!
2. Figuring out the bug all on my own!
3. Yakisoba from a Japanese food cart at the big carts that I hadn't tried yet.
4. EM passing along a really nice thing someone I used to work with said about me, not knowing that she knew me.
5. Picking up cookbook on hold from the library.
6. Discovering the parsnip-potato latkes I'd made on Sunday so only had to heat them up for dinner. Also, way better with sour cream in addition to the applesauce.

A year ago today.

10/21/13

1. Sun coming out on my bike ride to work
2. Butternut squash galette not suffering from being flipped over a few times.
3. Releasing another fix in time to make it to production by the end of the day.
4. Remembering to go down to the lobby in time to get a flu shot.
5. Getting to do some soldering!
6. AG getting my board to be connected after I was ready to give up on it.

A year ago today.

10/20/13

1. Being stirred to go out  when the sun came out in the afternoon.
2. Realizing my phone bounced out of the bike basket not long after it happened and going back to find it chipped in the corners but screen still intact. Phew!
3. Making it to the farmer's market just as they closed but in time to still get some carrots and pears.
4. Using the shredding disc on the food processor for the first time, making quick work of parsnips and a potato for parsnip latkes. 
5. Meeting up with LM for dinner.
6. Unpacking a couple more boxes than I had been expecting to, including most of my craft supplies.

A year ago today.

10/19/13

1. Another beautiful sunny day.
2. Getting a pretty new helmet and fabric pannier bags with zippers and pockets from the 50% closeout sale at the bike shop down the street.
3. Finding everything on my shopping list at the supermarket.
4. Seeing a few people favorite my tweets expressing a not-popular opinion.
5. Vacuuming for the first time in the duplex, yay for not living in filth anymore!
6. Spending the afternoon and evening roasting up all the different kinds of squash I've been getting from the CSA.

A year ago today.

10/18/13

1. Sun came back!
2. Samosa from the Indian food cart being quite crispy and tasty.
3. JK helping me cherry-pick a commit after I realized I broke something in the morning.
4. Seeing the errors start reporting correct information after the fix.
5. Re-heating leftovers from lunch to have for dinner while at the office so I didn't have to carry it back home.
6. Talking to a girl on the support team who might be interested in Hackbright!

A year ago today.

10/17/13

1. Putting my hair in two braids.
2. Cooking up some scrambled eggs to have with avocado slices for lunch.
3. Needlework night at Colette Patterns studio, cool to see a place in person after seeing many photos online.
4. Cooking up the whole bunch of Swiss chard for dinner.
5. Making and canning peach jam.
6. Sitting down and getting our finances in order on Mint.

A year ago today.

10/16/13

1. Another beautiful, sunny fall day for biking in to work.
2. Wrestling together a script that would give me the data I wanted, even if it wasn't pretty.
3. Going out for pie in the afternoon.
4. Catching up on the last few weeks of Hacker Newsletter.
5. Easily fitting the refrigeration-required portion of this week's CSA on the back of my bike.
6. Finding a peach jam recipe that would let me put off making the actual jam for another couple nights.

A year ago today.

10/15/13

1. Overnight slow cooker steel cut oatmeal turning out quite well.
2. Opening up some pear sauce I canned last year and finding that I had added candied ginger to it, so actually tastier than I thought it would be.
3. Beautiful fall day for biking in to work in the morning, sunshine and gorgeous trees changing color.
4. Getting to Grand Central Bakery in time to pick up a loaf of bread.
5. Cooking up root greens (radish, beet, turnip) for dinner.
6. Figuring out some further furniture placements and being able to move some large boxes out of the bedroom.

A year ago today.

10/14/13

1. Making up two sandwiches to pack for lunch.
2. Avocado with tomato and scrambled eggs for breakfast.
3. Random free donut and umbrella in the morning.
4. Coffee walk in afternoon sunshine.
5. Plum cake going over well.
6. Only stopping once on the uphill stretch of the bike ride home.

A year ago today.

10/13/13

1. Re-reading Bitterblue.
2. Plum cake indeed being delicious on day two.
3. Finding the perfect sized tupperware to store slices of cake.
4. Getting enough energy together to at least put the papers away. 
5. Finding lots of Xanth and Dragons of Pern books available from NYPL.
6. Making up a radish sandwich for dinner.

A year ago today.

10/12/13

1. Finally getting around to returning a couple ice packs to the seafood stand.
2. Finding a vendor at the farmer's market that still had watermelons!!
3. Picking up a bunch of fall fruit: plums, peaches, pears.
4. Remembering that a Trader Joe's was near that market to stop and pick up a few things there before heading home.
5. Unpacking all of Dan's books and getting him to agree to get rid of a few.
6. Putting together a simple and delicious plum cake.

A year ago today.

10/11/13

1. Getting lunch from the Grilled Cheese truck finally. Cheddar + basil pesto, dipped in tomato soup.
2. Joining in on the turntable.fm room for bug bash day and not having anyone boo down my choices.
3. Getting DC's help at the end of the day with the bug I'd been wrestling with all day.
4. Stopping in on the board game night briefly and playing a few rounds of SET.
5. Eventually successfully finding pita chips at Fred Meyer's.
6. Going to bed at a decent hour for the first time in a few days.

A year ago today.

10/10/13

1. DC helping me try to get my local RPM running properly again.
2. Remembering the scheduled feedback session with someone from the networking class I signed up for before being too late.
3. My laptop's battery just holding up through the video chat.
4. Catching up on personal emails I'd been meaning to send for awhile.
5. Picking up Eona from the local library branch.
6. Getting through Eona pretty quickly.

A year ago today.

10/9/13

1. Using pretzels with tabbouli at lunch for something crunchy/carby.
2. Going out for a walk in the afternoon.
3. Thoughtful post-screencast discussion with CLV/BS/RG, where everyone admitted to wanting to learn how to write better tests.
4. Getting all the veggies home.
5. Chanterelles sauted in butter for dinner.
6. Microwaved apple not giving me an allergic reaction.

A year ago today.

10/8/13

1. Having just enough sunbutter left to make a sunbutter & jelly sandwich for breakfast.
2. New biking jacket doing a good job of blocking out the wind.
3. Pita chips working well to supplement the rest of the Trader Joe's crackers with my tabbouli for lunch.
4. Stirring up an interesting conversation about privacy and benefits to social pressures to conform at lunch.
5. Getting enough done to open up 2 pull requests.
6. Uphill stretches on the bike ride home a bit easier than yesterday.

A year ago today.

10/7/13

1. Successfully commuted in to the office on my bike!
2. DC sharing his Blue Star donuts and getting to sample a few different flavors.
3. Tabbouli and crackers being delicious and filling for lunch.
4. Figuring out a way to get the XML response I wanted, after struggling with it all afternoon.
5. Dan making me feel better about office politics.
6. Catching up on Once Upon a Time.

A year ago today.

10/6/13

1. Figured out where the rest of the major pieces of furniture should go and moving them into place.
2. Getting to the hair salon place right on time.
3. Getting yellow-red-orange streaks in my hair--phoenix-like!
4. Catching up on my Google Reader while getting my hair done.
5. Cooking up a storm, with making tabbouli, tzatziki, and sausage-stuffed cabbage rolls.
6. Remembering to put in the Amazon order for the swivel socket surge protectors before going to bed.

A year ago today.

10/5/13

1. Beautifully warm and sunny day.
2. Taking my bike out to test out the commute in to work.
3. Fitting all the groceries I got onto my bike.
4. Neighbor thinking to call our landlord when I locked myself out.
5. Landlord actually being home when we called, so didn't take too long to come over to let me back in.
6. Getting Jean-Luc (the cat) to go inside the shelter I built for him from a plastic bin to protect from the rain.

A year ago today.

10/4/13

1. Waking up feeling well-rested, despite not getting particularly more sleep or anything.
2. Sunny day outside!
3. RB knowing about my password thing and giving me a high five for shipping it.
4. Remembering my leftover Thai food from yesterday before going out to buy lunch.
5. Successfully unclogging the shower drain with baking soda, vinegar, and q-tips.
6. Video-chatting with EN, who is a sympathetic audience.

A year ago today.

10/3/13

1. Wrapping up a couple support tickets I'd started earlier in the week.
2. REI salespeople being very patient with me while I spent an hour debating the merits of different biking jackets.
3. Getting a warm cinnamon pretzel at Wal-Mart when I was starving.
4. Picking up everything I needed for the cat shelter, plus some random house stuff.
5. Putting my new jacket on over my light coat helping enormously to stay warm.
6. Ordering a 20-piece chicken nuggets from the drive-through window of the McDonald's by the bus stop I was waiting at, since the drive-through is open 24 hours even though the main part had closed.

A year ago today.

10/2/13

1. Perfect amount of heat from the grilled pepper on the juicy chorizo-pork sausage burger I got for lunch.
2. BM letting me know that the mysterious hard round item in the CSA was a tiny melon.
3. Amazon consolidating two packages into one, letting me get my bike lights earlier than I expected!
4. Catching Jean-Luc using the blanket-in-a-basket I put out for him after he'd initially stalked away haughtily after I refused to let him in when I got home.
5. Cooking up a large quantity of CSA vegetables for dinner today and tomorrow night.
6. Using a bit of CB's Meyer lemon olive oil on my Swiss chard since I didn't have any more lemons around.

A year ago today.

10/1/13

1. Finding a later timeslot in the morning for my headshot after I got in to the office with my hair still wet.
2. Getting a schnitzelwich sandwich for lunch.
3. Not being the only one that got drenched in the sudden downpour.
4. The sandwich surviving the rain unscathed.
5. AC joining me for lunch.
6. Video-chatting with AL to catch up on her Hackbright experience thus far.

A year ago today.

9/30/13

1. Figuring out answers to a couple support questions in the morning.
2. Sun and blue skies peeking out a few time during the day.
3. Going out for a walk in the afternoon.
4. Meeting my next door neighbor finally, who explained the trash/recycling situation and the neighborhood gray/white cat.
5. Watching series finale for Breaking Bad.
6. Unpacking the utensils.

A year ago today.

9/29/13

1. Getting a ride from officiant to brunch.
2. Pita chips and hummus from Whole Foods.
3. Preaching to the choir with Dan.
4. Hanging out in the United lounge, where there were packages of Milano cookies.
5. Going through a couple books from my Kindle.
6. Taking a cab home.

A year ago today.

9/28/13

1. Finding another direct flight that would get me to Dallas in time for the wedding after missing my morning flight.
2. DC reporting back that more help wasn't needed for setup after all.
3. Getting dressed and made up with plenty of time to get to the ceremony.
4. CP/TC getting married!
5. CP's whole family being nice and welcoming to me, particularly TP's dance moves and drunken professions of (platonic) admiration.
6. Getting seated at one of the few "reserved" tables to be able to hang out with MB/MP, who is really nice and funny.

A year ago today.

9/27/13

1. The meat special from the Indian food cart having more than enough food for lunch and dinner.
2. JVP suggesting a workaround that worked for a bug I was dealing with.
3. Going to happy hour with ELV/CLV/DC and their friends.
4. The bar people being really nice about bringing in outside food.
5. ELV/CLV giving me a ride home.
6. Ordering some bike lights and shoe covers.

A year ago today.

9/26/13

1. Finishing up the client-side validations.
2. Sunny golden lit evening.
3. Finally picked up my bike from the bike shop.
4. Getting a library card, there's a branch just a few blocks from our place.
5. Found the comforter and my bike helmet!
6. Kitchen over half unpacked.

A year ago today.

9/25/13

1. Finding a gyro option that also included French fries.
2. Slowly figuring out JQuery.
3. Fairly light CSA load, made it easier to run my errand to Target.
4. Deciding to get most of the stuff I wanted on Amazon for cheaper/better selections.
5. Finishing The Night Circus, lovely.
6. Figuring out a general plan of where to put things in the kitchen.

A year ago today.

9/24/13

1. Korean tacos for lunch.
2. Bulgogi over rice for dinner.
3. Giving Dan a video tour of the duplex.
4. Unpacking clothes I brought with me into the closet and dresser.
5. Unpacking a couple kitchen boxes.
6. Finding the bag with the sheets and blankets in it.

A year ago today.

9/23/13

1. Remembering that I'd left my silk dress hanging in the room in time to turn back and get it.
2. JK helping me a lot with the cookies bug I was dealing with.
3. Light up hula hoops at the end of the hula hoop class.
4. Moving boxes around enough to set up the mattress and be able to walk through the rooms a bit more easily.
5. Successfully getting the internet set up!
6. Being tired enough to just fall asleep and skip having to figure out dinner.

A year ago today.

9/22/13

1. Sleeping for most of my flights back.
2. Getting nachos and spinach/artichoke dip along with a BLT for lunch at the Seattle airport.
3. Sunshine coming out in Portland as I got back into the city, like it was welcoming me home!
4. Leather sandals I bought off eBay having been delivered while I was gone.
5. Managing to pack everything into the small red suitcase.
6. Cooking up pretty much everything left in the fridge.

A year ago today.

9/21/13

1. Remembering that I had my United Club passes in my carry-on bag to use during my layover.
2. Taking a nap at the hotel before heading over to the wedding.
3. Making it there right before the ceremony started.
4. AJ and MT tying the knot, I totally teared up, so happy for them!
5. Seeing EM/ST/AM/MM!
6. Great band, fun time dancing.

A year ago today.

9/20/13

1. Movers successfully fitting all our stuff into the duplex.
2. Dropping off my bike at the shop down the street for a tune-up and the guy there not charging me for the full tune-up, just looking over the brakes and cables.
3. Getting in to the office by 11.
4. Fixing one bug entirely on my own!
5. Having a couple hours after work to lounge and watch random TV before having to head over to the airport.
6. Catching up on my RSS feeds.

A year ago today.

9/19/13

1. Making a bunch of phone calls in the morning to settle our moving bill.
2. Picking up my red silk vintage dress from the tailor's. I can now sit in it!
3. Interesting discussion at lunch about collectible resellers and flea markets.
4. Getting a mani-pedi in anticipation of AJ's wedding.
5. Swinging by Target on the walk back to pick up some stuff for the duplex.
6. Frying up a couple tortillas and eggs to have in addition to salad for dinner.

A year ago today.

9/18/13

1. Finally getting to re-open the pull request for my password complexity increase code.
2. Shadowing VF for a bit and learning more about his project, which sounded really cool.
3. Staying at the office long enough that I was able to pick up this week's CSA share after all, despite it being delivered later than usual.
4. Finally hearing from the driver with our stuff that he would deliver it on Friday morning!
5. Surprise 10% off the whole order from Whole Foods for a customer appreciation day.
6. Tzatziki potato salad using up one cucumber and putting another one into my salad.

A year ago today.

9/17/13

1. Getting lunch at the food carts thanks to taking a (Hackbright!) interview candidate out for lunch.
2. Figuring out how to put in the exclusion for partners into my validations.
3. Staying late at the office to fix my local branch and start the tests to run again.
4. Doing a second run of my stuff over to the duplex.
5. Hitting the bus times right so didn't have to wait too long on either end.
6. Making huevos rancheros for dinner.

A year ago today.

9/16/13

1. Despite breaking some stuff over the weekend, getting help to revert it in time and people in the SF office helping me out.
2. Getting to the hula hoop class on time despite bus ride taking longer than I had expected.
3. Still getting the hula hooping multi-class discount despite missing the first one last week.
4. Figuring out the chest hopping and "outflow" hula hooping a bit more successfully near the end of the class.
5. Finishing off Warbreaker sooner than I had expect, since about 20% of the Kindle file was the annotations.
6. Going to sleep pretty early.

A year ago today.

9/15/13

1. Sleeping in until 11:30 and feeling like I caught up on sleep.
2. Buying a couple Brandon Sanderson books from Amazon, including Elantris and Warbreaker.
3. Spending pretty much the entire day reading on the couch, skipping out on going out with the thunder and gloomy weather.
4. Catching on about Walt's phone call to Skyler in this week's Breaking Bad episodes pretty quickly.
5. Roasting up the chicken legs and cooking up quinoa to pack for lunch.
6. Baking the salmon as my mom had recommended coming out really nicely.

A year ago today.

9/14/13

1. Making a full breakfast with home fries and scrambled eggs.
2. Getting the last watermelon at the farmstand I've been getting them from for the last couple of weeks.
3. Finding the rubber part of my earbud after pulling it out of my purse and it popped off.
4. Bringing a couple suitcases of stuff over to the duplex to start moving in.
5. Walking through the Belmont Street Fair and picking up a loaf of potato bread from Grand Central Bakery.
6. Making charred corn tacos for dinner, very healthy and tasty.

A year ago today.

9/13/13

1. Remembering to text my sister a happy birthday.
2. Once I hunted down the right file, pretty quick fix for my first bug of the day.
3. Having a brainwave that put me on the right track to fixing my second bug of the day!
4. Going out for a quick run in the evening light.
5. Stopping at Target on the way back to pick up some household supplies.
6. Packing up the black duffle bag inside the red rolling suitcase to bring over to the duplex.

A year ago today.