2/28/15

1. Starting the pickaxe ruby book finally and finding it quite readable.
2. Police ending up finding my passport turned in, just to a different police office at the airport than the one I was in!
3. Stranger giving away the last two pieces of his waffle, while I was waiting in a long line.
4. Accidentally timing it perfectly to watch the sunset from the observation deck of the Main Tower in Frankfurt.
5. Finding AB finally in terminal A after going through customs multiple times.
6. Watching Orphan Black and Big Hero 6.

A year ago today.

2/27/15

1. Packing directly out of the summer clothes bins.
2. Weight for checked bag and carry-on looking like they'll be under the limit for even the Kulula Air flight.
3. Getting through security quickly with TSA pre-check.
4. Getting assigned into a economy plus seat.
5. Apples/cheese slices/crackers working quite well for snacks.
6. Starting and finishing Ancillary Sword.

A year ago today.

2/26/15

1. Catching a 20 bus just in time to use it to take me most of the way back east.
2. Getting to the library about 10 minutes before closing.
3. Making myself still go to the gym for at least a bit, better than skipping entirely before the trip.
4. Successfully packing relatively light for the whole South Africa trip and so I could still take a pretty large stack of books with me.
5. Finishing off all the remaining groceries in the fridge for dinner/breakfast/snacks.
6. Looking up my flight details to realize it'd been changed to be an hour earlier.

A year ago today.

2/25/15

1. CL being really nice about me losing my card.
2. Getting the integration to fully work finally.
3. My same seat being available at the replacement Oregon Ballet Theater show I'd want to get to.
4. Getting my phone data fixed for real.
5. Getting a smoothie before the class.
6. Fun practice exercises at last self-defense class.

A year ago today.

2/24/15

1. Biking over to Twisted in NE to pick up more yarn for the vest.
2. Really nice and flat bike ride from Twisted to the office, in the sun.
3. Going over to the lunch with the ladies at Puppet.
4. T-Mobile store being near the office to get the new SIM card for my phone and get it properly set up for data.
5. Really quick to get my second hepatitis B shot at Walgreens.
6. Getting home just in time for Agent Carter.

A year ago today.

2/23/15

1. Finding out good news for a trip in April!
2. Being impressed with the thoughtfulness and self-awareness evident in a meeting I'd had somewhat low expectations for.
3. My team being cutely impressed with the conditional formatting feature in Google Spreadsheets.
4. Figuring out a way to make it to MB's bachelorette party and wedding in Richmond.
5. Getting through most of my workout.
6. Talking to Dan on the phone before he fell asleep.

A year ago today.

2/22/15

1. Starting up the wool knit vest and finding it not too difficult to figure out.
2. Google Hangout with DC/EN/MB.
3. Taking a nap in the afternoon to make up for not being able to go back to sleep in the morning.
4. Finally getting around to putting up the polaroid stickers onto the wall.
5. Harvesting some of the Swiss chard that somehow has kept itself going.
6. Mostly just socks and underwear and dark-colored items in the laundry load with new red cloth napkins that bled the dye.

A year ago today.

2/21/15

1. Balmy weather out.
2. Using a Groupon at Off the Waffle for breakfast (even Dan liked them).
3. Getting both loaves of bread I wanted at Grand Central Bakery (the olive and sesame encrusted breads).
4. Getting to gym to catch up on workouts.
5. Roasted chicken coming together wrote quickly, on dinner table in 1.5 hrs.
6. Going to bed early since Dan would have to be up so early.

A year ago today.

2/20/15

1. Making a green smoothie for lunch.
2. Good stuff coming out of a work ladies lunch panel.
3. Making more progress on the integration project.
4. Finishing off last off big batch of Hackbright interviews.
5. Getting workout in at office gym.
6. Dan coming to pick me up and give me a ride home.

A year ago today.

2/19/15

1. Getting in on time for first meeting.
2. Getting a good review from my boss.
3. Expensible Korean tacos for lunch.
4. Having extra time in a meeting with PM to clear out backlog of stories.
5. Going for a smoothie walk with BR.
6. Deciding to go home instead of to the gym.

A year ago today.

2/18/15

1. Taking the bus in to work, to be able to take it home after class.
2. Lunch at The Yard House with the team.
3. Putting the bill for lunch on my US Airways credit card to get towards $750 spending for the month.
4. Calling my grandma for Chinese New Year.
5. Walking over to the self-defense class with KM.
6. Not waiting too long for the bus home.

A year ago today.

2/17/15

1. Reheating a Rebel Within muffin in the toaster oven for breakfast.
2. Remembering to get the cooler bags for the meat CSA out from the basement
3. Beautifully sunny morning for biking in to work.
4. Getting my workout in in the morning, including signing up for a free trial at the gym in the office building lobby to finish off the squat portion.
5. Making it in on time for stand up.
6. Watching Agent Carter since Dan wasn't home yet for New Girl/The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.

2/16/15

1. Successfully making the Rebel Within runny soft-boiled egg inside a savory muffin!
2. Getting through a bunch of first round Hackbright interviews mostly pretty smoothly.
3. Watching the first couple episodes of Better Call Saul with Dan.
4. Successfully changing the flat back tire on my bike! Well hopefully it sticks.
5. Pretty quick to pull together a sous vide pork chop, green beans, and cornbread dinner.
6. Skipping trivia to catch up on cleaning up the Mint account while watching TV.

A year ago today.

2/15/15

1. Fitting the ribs into the toaster oven so we wouldn't have to worry about the gas from the oven being on for several hours.
2. Finishing my loads of laundry.
3. Reading Firefight throughout the day.
4. Cornbread baking pretty quickly, so it was fine even though I started it a bit later then I should have to have with dinner.
5. Dan really enjoying the slow-baked barbecued ribs (using the smoked Spanish paprika I bought last week!)
6. Dan keeping me company while watching Downton Abbey and Grantchester.

A year ago today.

2/14/15

1. Getting out of bed in time to get settled before the first Hackbright interview of the day.
2. Driving to the gym to get there with enough time for my workout.
3. Getting to the gym for the second day in a row.
4. Dan serenading me with the Ben Folds song "The Luckiest" for Valentine's Day.
5. Dan's chicken stew for dinner melding together different flavors quite well.
6. Finishing reading Golden Son.

A year ago today.

2/13/15

1. Getting through the morning demo quite quickly so I had some more time to finish writing up draft stories for the next project.
2. Bringing my knitting with me to the afternoon lightning talks.
3. Dan picking me up from work to bring the slow cooker home more easily.
4. Getting dropped off at the gym to make sure I made it there.
5. Nice weather out for the walk home from the gym.
6. My cobbled together dinner of noodles with olives, freezer grape tomatoes, Swiss chard, and just plain olive oil actually being quite delicious.

A year ago today.

2/12/15

1. Running the allocation portion of the planning meeting for the new project.
2. Catching up on personal email over lunch.
3. Quite funny and insightful webinar on public speaking.
4. Having a portion of the frittata for dinner.
5. Reading through a ton of the webcomic A Girl and Her Fed.
6. Not too long a wait for the 14 bus after I'd missed the 15.

A year ago today.

2/11/15

1. Managing to bring in my beer-cocoa chili in the slow cooker in to work safely on the bus, thanks to the latches for the lid.
2. Trying out all the different kinds of chili people brought for the work chili cook-off.
3. Having a random powwow in the women's bathroom with AC and ZK about all the new Hackbrightlings joining us soon.
4. My eyebrow lady L saying I could stop by in for a free touchup before my trip to South Africa.
5. One of the instructors at the self-defense class complimenting me on the strength of my kicks and such, asking whether I've done other martial arts before.
6. Lightly snacking on the cookies they provided to stave off my hunger before getting home.

A year ago today.

2/10/15

1. Finding a free meeting room for making a couple phone calls.
2. Getting a worthwhile retention bonus on one of my credit cards to keep it open for another year and extend its credit history.
3. Catching up with ND.
4. Remembering that TP had already finished up a pull request for one of the pieces of work I wanted to get done, so it was just a matter of reviving that.
5. Pretty straightforward to fix the various tests that were broken on my second pull request.
6. Getting to the gym to finish off the last workout from last week's roster.

A year ago today.

2/9/15

1. Finding MyFitnessPal's recipe entering system to be fairly easy to use, actually.
2. Finishing the reading for book club over lunch.
3. Doctor's office being cool about me being 10 minutes late to my appointment.
4. Stopping by Penzey's on the way back to the office and picking up a bunch of spices, with some amazing-smelling cumin and smoked paprika in particular.
5. Good turnout at bar trivia tonight.
6. Finishing up the balaclava knitting project for my dad.

A year ago today.

2/8/15

1. Getting the chili and chicken broth into the slow cooker before we needed to head out.
2. Really enjoying Carmen, such gorgeous music.
3. Dan remembering the corn tortillas we had in the fridge to go with the chili, instead of stopping to get a bag of tortilla chips.
4. Pretty quick to throw together the frittata to have for lunch for the week.
5. Knitting while watching Downton Abbey and Grantchester.
6. Deciding to rip back and fix some of the sections of the balaclava that were too tight.

A year ago today.

2/7/15

1. Sleeping in until 10 and catching up on sleep.
2. Still getting to the gym before 4 even with discovering my back tire on my bike was flat, thanks to borrowing the car.
3. Feeling great after my workout, even though I hadn't wanted to do the cardio portion today.
4. Getting there in time for the pre-show lecture.
5. Dan and me being in agreement about Carmina Burana really being mostly quite boring.
6. Stopping by the office on the way home to pick up the refactoring book and my bike pump.

A year ago today.

2/6/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to the dentist's in the morning.
2. Out from the dentist's in an hour, even with the two fillings that needed to be done.
3. Perfect timing to catch a bus to the office.
4. Quite enjoying the Oscar-nominated shorts at Living Room Theater.
5. Dan helping my sister finish up edits for her job application.
6. Getting in another talk proposal submitted to RailsConf in time for the 9pm PT deadline.

A year ago today.

2/5/15

1. Staying pretty dry on the bike ride in in the morning.
2. Helping EH practice her lightning talk.
3. KF being really receptive to some ideas I had about getting people to speak up in meetings.
4. Finally getting to writing up tests to open up a PR for work from last week.
5. Successfully getting my new phone set up, again.
6. Getting my hair color freshened up.

A year ago today.

2/4/15

1. Successfully pumping up my bike tires with my bike pump from home.
2. Finding out that the internal gem I needed wasn't ready yet anyway, so I wasn't behind on that particular project.
3. Not leaving the building key card in the back of my jeans to accidentally fall out and be lost.
4. Biking home with about 10 minutes to spare and put stuff away before heading over to the bar.
5. Meeting JG's friend at Horse Brass.
6. Really good fish and chips, along with a nice cider.

A year ago today.

2/3/15

1. Remembering to bring the barbell pad with the rest of my gym stuff.
2. Snagging a couple slices of the Sizzle Pie pizza for dinner.
3. Hanging out with ZK and KM at the Ruby meetup.
4. Mostly following along with DC and BO's talk.
5. Catching a bus to the gym with enough time for the full workout still, after the bike pump at work was broken.
6. Finishing up the whole workout before the gym's official closing time.

A year ago today.

2/2/15

1. Talking to another Hackbright candidate who has an offer, and seems likely to accept!
2. Finishing skimming the reading just before the book club meeting started.
3. Really lively session of technical book club, but not too hard to facilitate it for an even spread of discussion.
4. Getting home in time for a quick dinner.
5. SF joining us at bar trivia and covering the Harry Potter questions between us.
6. Winning at bar trivia!

A year ago today.

2/1/15

1. Pretty quick to get the ham hock in the slow cooker in the morning before going to the gym.
2. Early afternoon interview getting pushed back a bit, so I had time to finish up my workout at the gym without rushing and take a shower beforehand.
3. Developing a system to prep for these interviews.
4. Kale/sausage/wild rice gratin coming out quite well.
5. Finishing up cooking the collard greens on the stove so that it wouldn't take that much longer to get dinner done.
6. Knitting and watching Masterpiece Theater.

A year ago today.