11/30/14

1. Getting brunch at the Turning Point with my mom
2. Dad measurably improving throughout the day at the breathing exercises he was supposed to be doing.
3. Getting home and packed just before Dan came to pick me up.
4. Dinner at CB/PB’s, despite the compressed time.
5. Global Entry interview being really quick.
6. Seeing SR/CP/AL again at a diner.

A year ago today.

11/29/14

1. Bringing dumplings to go on the way to the hospital for breakfast.
2. Being around to keep my dad company while he was in the ER.
3. Jackie going home for supplies and coming back with food and games.
4. Playing Dominion with my sister while waiting for my dad to go into surgery.
5. Being able to just walk over to the Dublin House from the hospital.
6. Having interesting conversations with several people one-on-one at the reunion.

A year ago today.

11/28/14

1. Succeeding on at least the one route while bouldering with my sister.
2. Keeping my temper while arguing with my mom.
3. Workout at gym with really good cardio session.
4. PG hosting us in his parents’ basement for the usual crowd.
5. Playing games and Sporcle.
6. Not having a curfew for when to get back to my parents'.

A year ago today.

11/27/14

1. Dim sum with the family in the morning.
2. Wearing a holiday-themed outfit with a pumpkin-colored dress.
3. Having time to go back to Holmdel to change before going out to the outlets for “Grey Thursday.”
4. Dan coming with us to help with waiting in line and holding bags.
5. Advising my sister on her clothing purchases.
6. Going to bed early at 11:30.

A year ago today.

11/26/14

1. Dumplings for lunch!
2. All the canned goods I brought back surviving the trip and TSA inspection in my checked bag.
3. Learning how to stoke the fire in the fireplace at my parents’.
4. Booking the last few bigs things needed for the South Africa trip, flight and shuttles to get out to the safari lodge.
5. Getting waved in to workout at LA Fitness.
6. Hair color not bleeding out this time even though it was the first time I washed it since getting it done on Saturday.

A year ago today.

11/25/14

1. Getting the rescheduling fee waived on the housecleaning and still being able to use the promo code for next week.
2. Running into Dan on the red line to the airport.
3. Only being slightly over the weight limit for my checked bag and being able to pull out enough to not have to pay a fee.
4. Passing the time on the flights with the music channels on Southwest’s wifi offerings.
5. Successfully getting to east coast and hotel and beating the weather.
6. Pretty nice room (with king-size bed!) at the Holiday Inn I booked for $35.

A year ago today.

11/24/14

1. Dan driving me over to Planet Granite in the morning to get a workout in.
2. Feeling energetic and awake after morning workout.
3. Getting a delicious pile of fried tacos at Los Gorditos over team lunch.
4. Succeeding in fixing the rest of the tests.
5. Dan bringing dinner for me over to trivia.
6. Finding a Tuesday flight on southwest for not that much more than our original flight to switch to.

A year ago today.

11/23/14

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Being right about people not being around for the BC Google Hangout.
3. Reading a book on RC’s recommendation, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and finding it to be pretty cute.
4. Dan making spaghetti for lunch for me.
5. Strangers walking by the house letting me know I left the lights in the car on.
6. Getting a load of laundry done at the end of the day.

A year ago today.

11/22/14

1. Dan getting me to my hair appointment right at 10.
2. S taking a check so I didn’t have to go withdraw cash.
3. Taking a short nap in the afternoon.
4. Chatting to BK and JS at ELV's Lego party for CLV's birthday.
5. Watching The Red Violin movie for where the music came from.
6. Finishing the Rogues short story anthology.

A year ago today.

11/21/14

1. Getting notice of happy hour being canceled in time to rearrange the stuff I brought with me for the change in plans.
2. Finishing my full workout at the gym exactly in time.
3. Having my lunch for dinner.
4. Finding a seat in the front of the back section so Dan would be able to see me easily once he got there.
5. Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra concert performing the Enigma variations.
6. Dan going to pick up the car so I didn’t have to go out into the rain again.

A year ago today.

11/20/14

1. Having a fun time helping out with a class of 4th-6th graders with the Hour of Code and getting the lightbulb moment with a couple of the girls.
2. EB joining us at our stitching lunch.
3. Getting my eyebrows done right after lunch.
4. Remembering there’s a Bank of America ATM right in Pioneer Square to get some cash for paying the tip.
5. Taking less time than I thought it would to figure out my benefits enrollment for next year.
6. Staying late at the office to get caught up on email.

A year ago today.

11/19/14

1. Finding a few unblemished persimmons to pick with the fruit picker still.
2. Dan giving me a ride to work.
3. Feeling really great with the deadlifts in today's workout!
4. Managing to stop by the RailsBridge meetup for at least a few minutes with the bus schedule and traffic and still get home on time for the HB meeting.
5. Really well-run tech for remote dialing in to HB alums meeting.
6. Clearing out dirty dishes and delivered packages.

A year ago today.

11/18/14

1. Waking up feeling fairly refreshed around 7, despite not sleeping my usual 8+ hours.
2. Taking care of bringing out a bunch of stuff to be composted and packing up a box to return an online order.
3. Strangers on the bus coming after me to give me the hat I dropped.
4. Getting to the tool library just in time to get a fruit picker.
5. Getting to the bus stop on Hawthorne and not waiting long before a bus came.
6. Reading the Rogues short story anthology.

A year ago today.

11/17/14

1. Making it onto the 9:29 bus.
2. Delicious team lunch at Luc Lac.
3. Finding a phone room to make a couple errands phone calls.
4. Learning about SQL explain command from JH.
5. Getting workout in at the gym and feeling better/stronger than last week.
6. Having dinner at the office with what I'd brought in for lunch.

A year ago today.

11/16/14

1. Sleeping in until 11 after waking up a couple times from coughing in the middle of the night.
2. Staying warm enough to be motivated to be active with leggings under pants and vest and scarf.
3. Harvesting a couple undamaged persimmons before it got dark out.
4. Cooking up all the veggies in the fridge to be prepped for the week.
5. Dan running my library/Walgreens errands for me.
6. Thinking to use the salad spinner bowl for mixing up the tripled carrot cake recipe.

A year ago today.

11/15/14

1. Lots of hands on practice in the CPR class! Feel more confident after this one than the first CPR class I took a couple years ago.
2. Fitting in my entire workout between when the class ended and when the massage was scheduled.
3. Getting my first table massage in over a year and working out kinks in my right lower back and left shoulder.
4. Picking up my hemmed leggings from Nordstrom and browsing the clearance racks.
5. Having Dan's "Devils Risotto" for dinner.
6. Starting and finishing The Magician's Land.

A year ago today.

11/14/14

1. Figuring out how to wrangle the tests into submission finally, also used lots of git magic.
2. Afternoon pie (though it was for KM's last day).
3. Seeing LH and J in town!
4. Playing pinball and DDR at Ground Kontrol.
5. Dan picking me up from Burnside where the #20 bus dropped me off.
6. Having Dan's leftover turkey avocado half-sandwich for a second dinner.

A year ago today.

11/13/14

1. Making good progress on fixing tests in the morning working from home after I woke up strangely early.
2. Making it in to the office just in time for my 10am 1:1.
3. Progressing quickly on my knitting at lunch thanks to the index card I wrote up with notes last week to keep with the project.
4. Perfectly making the #4 bus and not having to wait out in the cold for very long.
5. Taking the bus to work out at Loprinzi's.
6. Dan picking me up at the gym after my workout.

A year ago today.

11/12/14

1. Making the bus in time to get in to the office by 11.
2. Quite good chicken sandwich and squash soup for lunch.
3. Being right about there being a bug in the service after fetching 20 items.
4. Being silly in our team Hipchat room.
5. Dan giving me a ride home from the office.
6. Finally letting myself read one of the fantasy books I'd checked out from the library a couple weeks ago and it went quickly enough that I didn't have to stay up late to finish it.

A year ago today.

11/11/14

1. Trying out Waffle Window finally.
2. Getting rides from Dan to Waffle Window and in to work.
3. Absolving myself of responsibility on a SAML pull request.
4. Taking a baked goods afternoon break with KY.
5. Surviving biking from the office over to Planet Granite and back in the wind.
6. Pumpkin ravioli made by Dan for dinner.

A year ago today.

11/10/14

1. Wearing my green ponte knit dress.
2. Multiple cups of tea throughout the day.
3. Catching the bus to the movie theater just in time.
4. Advanced Style movie being inspiring and touching.
5. Dan picking me up from movie theater.
6. Picking out photos for polaroid wall stickers Groupon.

A year ago today.

11/9/14

1. Dan giving me a ride to Planet Granite.
2. Calling my mom.
3. Finally getting around to swapping out the summer for winter clothes.
4. Getting the slow-roasted leg of lamb done at a reasonable time for dinner, despite starting it a bit late.
5. Doing a pretty good job of converting raw ingredients in fridge into ready-to-eat form.
6. Figuring out that the cheap-o dish rack I bought last year actually can come apart, to be able to clean the grossness underneath.

A year ago today.

11/8/14

1. Sleeping in until after 10, after being up late the night before.
2. Sunny and blue skies day out.
3. Going to see the Lan Su Chinese Garden and finding it comparably beautiful to the Chinese garden in Vancouver.
4. Taking a 2-hour nap in the afternoon.
5. Watching and enjoying Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with Dan.
6. Going through and trying on the dresses from my Zappos and Kiyonna orders.

A year ago today.

11/7/14

1. Getting out of bed early enough to assemble a kale/couscous salad for lunch.
2. The large square container I dumped the salad into fitting in snugly into the front basket on my bike.
3. Having plenty of time over the lunch hour to go to Nordstrom to get my leggings hemmed, mail off a bunch of packages at the post office, and still come back to have lunch.
4. Successfully figuring out how to recreate some ActiveRecord queries!
5. Having some more of the kale/couscous salad for dinner.
6. Finishing off yesterday's workout at Planet Granite and doing a bit of bouldering.

A year ago today.

11/6/14

1. Getting myself to the gym in the morning for a workout.
2. Making it into the office just in time for a 10am 1:1.
3. Getting back into my tomato red honey cowl during the first knitting lunch.
4. Finding envelopes of the right size and confirming addresses for the packages I wanted to send out.
5. Figuring out a quick fix to another params display issue.
6. Figuring out a schedule for gym visits over the next couple weeks that would get the most out of the memberships/passes I'd already bought.

A year ago today.

11/5/14

1. Sleeping in until 10 after being up several times throughout the night with the sore throat.
2. Breaking out the vacuum jug for keeping a large pot of tea hot.
3. Working from home in pajamas and fluffy robe.
4. Making roasted eggplant and halloumi for a late lunch.
5. Watching the free pilot for Showtimes' The Affair online.
6. Dan doing a bunch of the dishes to clear out the sink.

A year ago today.

11/4/14

1. Splitting up the mojo pork takeout to get two lunches out of it.
2. Discovering the tea strainers in the office kitchen for loose leaf tea.
3. Sizzle Pie pizza for dinner at the pdx.rb meetup.
4. Bringing home my work laptop in case I needed to WFH tomorrow.
5. Getting over to Planet Granite and checking out their facilities.
6. Making it home in time for The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

11/3/14

1. Getting the full workout in in the morning.
2. Remembering that I wanted to get the memela the next time we went to Mi Mero Mole.
3. Reading and taking notes on the chapter for POODR book club in the quiet library.
4. KL having code examples to use for the first meeting of the book club.
5. Taking the bus over to not be too late.
6. Winning at bar trivia in both the main round and on the final question!

A year ago today.

11/2/14

1. Breaking out the new fish spatula to make crispy eggs on toast for breakfast.
2. Booking tickets for the Seattle Nutcracker for costumes/set design by Maurice Sendak.
3. Getting a bunch of blog posts organized and scheduled to post.
4. Using a Groupon for a local Cuban restaurant to not have to make lunch for the next few days.
5. Delicious Cuban sandwich with plantains for dinner.
6. Forcing myself to get out some recommendation letter writing.

A year ago today.

11/1/14

1. Went to the rummage sale at St. David's and picked up several large vintage silverplate trays for only $3.
2. Dan doing lots of the dishes generated from the party last night.
3. Getting my whole workout at the gym, with other people hanging around past 5 when it was supposed to close.
4. Dan's dinner of pumpkin pasta with chicken and peas being ready when I got home starving.
5. Caught up on finances for the last 2 months.
6. Finally sat down to fill out my ballot.

A year ago today.

10/31/14

1. Dan doing all the dishes and vacuuming so I didn't have to do too much cleaning after I got home.
2. Co-hosting a Halloween party with LU, with KY and EH from work coming too.
3. Remembering the mummy napkins to bring out.
4. Having more people over at once than we've had up until now (5 guests!)
5. Dan running out to pick up a wine bottle opener after we couldn't find the one we'd had.
6. Getting to keep a bunch of the bacon cheddar crackers afterwards.

A year ago today.

10/30/14

1. Getting to the gym for another morning workout!
2. Staying pretty dry on the bike ride in to work.
3. Using the shower in the women's room.
4. Delicious plantain margarita from Mi Mero Mole's happy hour.
5. Picking up a Halloween tablecloth and cupcake decorating kit at Freddy's for just a few dollars, 40% off.
6. Chocolate chocolate chip muffins coming out really well, didn't overfill the liners at all.

A year ago today.

10/29/14

1. Pulling together an outfit with my Liberty floral print button-down shirt with knit red skirt and black studded boots.
2. Getting lots of compliments on the outfit!
3. Clearing the other distracting PRs I'd had open for awhile.
4. Getting stuff in the CSA that would supplement what I had been planning to make from stuff I still had from last week.
5. Bringing the carrot greens upstairs to compost at the office.
6. Dan getting home before me and putting the CSA meat into the freezer.

A year ago today.

10/28/14

1. Getting to the gym in the morning for another morning workout!
2. Filling up enough at lunch with leftover yakisoba from yesterday and one of the leftover hard-boiled eggs.
3. Pulling out my Greek yogurt and granola during the team afternoon snack break.
4. Getting my replacement Jawbone band in the mail.
5. Pulling together roasted carrots, parsnips, and beets from last week with avocado and orange into a filling dinner salad.
6. Cooking up the spaghetti squash, Swiss chard, and broccoli rabe with rib meat from the pig roast into lunch for the rest of the week.

A year ago today.

10/27/14

1. Team lunch at a Japanese restaurant with excellent yakisoba.
2. Getting started with the POODR book club at work.
3. Dan heating up dinner for me.
4. Getting a torta from Tacqueria Gorditos because I was still hungry.
5. Nightmare on Division St. #4 movie premiere being hilarious.
6. Giving DC a ride home back to NE so he wouldn't have to take the bus.

A year ago today.

10/26/14

1. Bigger group than usual for the hangout with BC friends: EN/DC/CC/DC.
2. Setting up a green tomato chutney and a pear sauce in the slow cookers.
3. Sun coming out for a nice fall day.
4. Getting to the gym to finish the workout in time before closing.
5. Dan helping me take reference photos in front of the house.
6. Writing up the essays needed for the Georgia Tech program and submitting the application.

A year ago today.

10/25/14

1. Wearing my leather jacket out, since I wasn't biking and wouldn't be outside for long.
2. Brunch with my cousin and her husband, in town celebrating their wedding anniversary.
3. Savoring a couple more delicious pieces of chocolate from Belgium.
4. Throwing together a salad with various fruits and veggies already in the fridge.
5. Getting to help out with carving the roasted pig!
6. Watching Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure finally.

A year ago today.

10/24/14

1. Getting up and out for another morning workout! 
2. Finished the workout in an hour.
3. Getting my transcript from BC faxed over before their office closed for the weekend.
4. Getting a popover pan on sale from Sur la Table to try to make the giant muffin with soft-boiled egg on the inside.
5. Dan picking me up from Sur la Table.
6. Getting to be right at the front of the stage for the Rachael Yamagata concert.

A year ago today.

10/23/14

1. Wearing my pageboy hat, since I didn't bike, and getting several compliments on it.
2. Getting DC's help on figuring out what to do about an open PR.
3. Talking to TL about career development.
4. Getting to my eyebrow appointment right on time.
5. Running into CLV on the bus home.
6. Cobbling together dinner of steamed broccoli, grilled cheese sandwich with smoked paprika tomato jam, and roasted acorn squash.

A year ago today.

10/22/14

1. Getting out of bed and to the gym in the morning!
2. Finding that Loprinzi's had all the equipment I needed.
3. Shower facilities at work being really nice.
4. Getting to my hair color appointment on time, despite the rain.
5. Getting home by 8:30.
6. Watching TV with Dan.

A year ago today.

10/21/14

1. Putting together an outfit with a color combo I quite liked: vintage purple blazer with puffed shoulders, silver triangle earrings, olive green utility pants, and brown suede desert boots.
2. Successfully fitting the Eddie Bauer clothes I needed to return into my pannier bag.
3. Fitting the Madewell clothes onto my bike as well.
4. Getting to both stores before they closed to return the online orders.
5. Scooping out perfect amount of soup for dinner.
6. Not taking too long to go through the videos/transcripts in the Getting Started Guide for the IWT-Fit course.

A year ago today.

10/20/14

1. Sleeping in until 9 and waking up feeling well-rested.
2. Going out for lunch with the team to a Thai restaurant.
3. Sitting down and getting a bunch of phone calls done.
4. Dan heating up dinner for me to bring to trivia.
5. Pita chips and sausage-lentil stew going together quite well.
6. Getting a few good answers at bar trivia.

A year ago today.

10/19/14

1. Sleeping in until 10.
2. Only needing to do two loads of laundry, I thought I might have to do four.
3. Re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
4. Going to check out the annual Portland Nursery Apple Tasting and getting some delicious freshly pressed apple juice/cider.
5. Converting all the veggies in the fridge into ready-to-eat food.
6. Finding enough space in the fridge for all the food, even with the soup and stew made today.

A year ago today.

10/18/14

1. Getting my stuff and having breakfast in plenty of time before LU came by.
2. Sun and blue skies coming out while we were out at the apple farm.
3. Fitting all my apple, pear, cider, and squash purchases into the box I'd brought.
4. Napping in the car on the way home.
5. Having the turkey club sandwich I brought home yesterday for a late lunch/early dinner.
6. Watching Pirates of Silicon Valley with Dan.

A year ago today.

10/17/14

1. Being silly with the team while we took the time to decide where to go for lunch.
2. Getting the smoked lamb dark mole with nachos.
3. Fitting my work laptop and CSA veggies all on my bike.
4. Staying mostly dry while biking in the drizzle on the way home.
5. Running into KL/KG while waiting in the will-call line.
6. Getting to our seats just before the show started.

A year ago today.

10/16/14

1. Remembering to bring my ballet tickets with me to work.
2. Getting to the office in time to have breakfast before my 1:1.
3. Settling down and figuring out my next task was easier than I thought it would be.
4. Catching most of the pre-show "Performance Perspectives" presentation.
5. Finding that my cheapo ballet subscription got me a seat near the center, 2nd row!
6. Live music performed on stage with the Oregon Ballet Theater shows, so beautiful.

A year ago today.

10/15/14

1. Getting a compliment from KL on my new gray waterproof coat.
2. Getting bibimbap for lunch for a healthier meal.
3. Managing to fit my CSA box into the bottom level of the fridge.
4. Scavenging dinner of tacos from the food they'd had out for the ChickTech imposter syndrome workshop.
5. Sitting down with a group including ND/KY/AC and foisting my feedback upon them in the exercise they were doing.
6. Getting to the movie theater before Dan, despite leaving the office a bit late.

A year ago today.

10/14/14

1. Talking to a rep about our 401k plan options.
2. Getting Ada Lovelace Day chocolates from JS, in even fancier packaging than last year.
3. Booking some flights to/from SFO for pretty cheap using Avios points.
4. Grabbing some chicken wings and pizza at the office for a free dinner.
5. Learning how to play Blokus. 
6. Taking the car out in the rain to pick up ND's credit card from North Bar.

A year ago today.

10/13/14

1. Wearing my leopard print flats and getting through the day without blisters (some pre-emptive bandaids were involved).
2. Figuring out how to do the refactoring and fix the tests all on my own.
3. Pretty cool demo of Ducksboard product.
4. Going out for a walk with ND while doing a debrief of our Hallway Track from last week.
5. Having a long conversation with ND at bar trivia about her career aspirations.
6. Fairly light rain, didn't get too wet in the bike ride home.

A year ago today.

10/12/14

1. Meeting LC and her friend M for breakfast at Pine State Biscuits.
2. Getting to the library in time to return some books.
3. Very efficient to get my flu shot at Walgreens.
4. Finding that my Swiss chard has rebounded since I last harvested it, and even though I was gone for 2 weeks.
5. Harvesting the Little Fingers carrots I'd planted.
6. Making an onion marmalade and Havarti grilled cheese sandwich to supplement my dinner.

A year ago today.

10/11/14

1. Sleeping in with no alarm for the first time in two weeks.
2. Having risotto for lunch.
3. Pulling together a decent pirate-ish costume for myself.
4. Hanging out with DC and ZK and partners at the mystery adventure.
5. Having fun playing arcade games with Dan at the Avalon.
6. Catching up on The Mindy Project and Once Upon a Time.

A year ago today.

10/10/14

1. Really warm welcome back from my team.
2. Finding that KL had even set up all my stuff for me with the desk move.
3. Catching up with teammates.
4. Pretty decent Thai noodles from a new-to-me food truck.
5. Dan coming to pick me up from the office.
6. Spinach-sausage-tomato risotto for dinner.

A year ago today.

10/9/14

1. Chorizo mini-burritos for breakfast.
2. Great talk by EG from AirBnB on pitfalls to avoid for designing better experiments.
3. Meeting more of the recent Hackbright graduates and encouraging them to give talks.
4. Getting the Data Nerd headshot photos taken, by myself and also with AL.
5. Succeeding on at least the first two routes when going climbing with CF and AL.
6. Getting to the airport in time to grab a sandwich before boarding.

A year ago today.

10/8/14

1. Great response to my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk at the Hallway Track.
2. Bacon and fried chicken sandwich food truck sandwich for lunch.
3. Meeting some cool women at the conference by talking about their cool colored hair.
4. Trying Japanese curry for the first time.
5. EL finding that the coat check at the venue had free ear plugs available.
6. Hanging out at the hotel view lounge and getting gossip from CF/AL.

A year ago today.

10/7/14

1. Successfully getting on the flight to SF despite the quick turnaround/repacking and lack of sleep.
2. Getting lunch with RC/SB/MB at the Google SF office.
3. Beautiful day out at the venue/conference orientation.
4. Delicious food at Kin Khao.
5. Catching up with classmates from my Hackbright class.
6. Going to sleep pretty much as soon we got back to the room.

A year ago today.

10/6/14

1. Showering off the grime from traveling.
2. Not too hot or humid out in Bradenton.
3. Being able to be there for Dan and his family as they mourned.
4. Actually a pretty decent toasted sandwich with cold cuts from Quiznos (helped by my addition of banana peppers and pepperoncini from their fixings bar).
5. No questions asked to check my bag at the gate.
6. Starting to read Sandi Metz’ book, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby.

A year ago today.

10/5/14

1. Remembering to go back to my room to leave a tip.
2. Running into another ArrrrCamp attendee to have company on the tram ride in to the train station and the train ride to Brussels.
3. Realizing that I was on the wrong train before it was too late and being able to get off at the next stop and get a cab to the airport.
4. The counter agent taking pity on me and checking me and my bag in still, with less than an hour to go before the flight.
5. Getting a bunch of blog post writing done before watching episodes of House of Lies and Girls.
6. The beer and glasses I packed surviving the trip.

A year ago today.

10/4/14

1. Successfully getting myself to Bruges.
2. Fun tour at the brewery, especially the great view from the roof.
3. Getting out from the crowds of tourists into the countryside with low, flat fields and enormously tall trees lining canals.
4. Making it back in time to pick up gifts for people from the brewery shop and some chocolates.
5. Waiting out the sudden downpour in a chocolate shop.
6. Meeting up with an Australia girl from the bike tour, C, and getting dinner of mussels and fries with her at a restaurant recommended by the bike tour guide.

A year ago today.

10/3/14

1. Successfully booking my TPA-PDX flight finally, Chase's website decided to start working again.
2. Socializing and chatting with people I'd met yesterday but also new people during all the breaks today.
3. Conference organizers making me a non-alcoholic mojito.
4. Making it just in time to back to the Belfry to get a couple postcards.
5. Taking a nap before the boat party.
6. Finding a place open late at night to get a cheap shawarma sandwich, which really hit the spot.

A year ago today.

10/2/14

1. Pretty impressive breakfast spread at hotel buffet, including good cold cuts and a make-your-own boiled egg station
2. Talk went really well!!! Felt much smoother than when I was at RailsConf.
3. Getting some fun swag, pirate logo tote bag, stickers, and some Belgian beer and paraphernalia as a speaker gift.
4. Really enjoying the single track, smaller conference style.
5. Free dinner after RailsGirls Hackathon.
6. Going on a group evening walk through Ghent.

A year ago today.

10/1/14

1. Successfully getting myself from the Brussels airport to the hotel in Ghent.
2. Napping and showering at the hotel.
3. Really nice day in Ghent, only partly cloudy with blue skies and very comfortable temperature
4. Successfully finding my way to the church with the Van Eyck painting and getting there 20 min before they closed for the day.
5. Walking up to the belfry tower to hear the 5:30 bells chime from the top.
6. Getting a nicely large portion size pasta for dinner after not having eaten for awhile.

A year ago today.