7/31/15

1. Having breakfast with AL in the morning.
2. Finding a seat for the 2nd half of the morning sessions.
3. Good stuff in the goody bag, including notebooks and post-its!
4. Taking another nap in the afternoon.
5. Being able to get dinner at the conference party.
6. Successfully finding my way back to the hotel on my own.

A year ago today.

7/30/15

1. Successfully getting to the hotel on public transit!
2. Room being available early, so I could go in there and crash.
3. Making a breakfast for myself out of a roll from the plane's dinner and the last of the food my aunt packed for me.
4. Taking a 4 hour nap in the afternoon.
5. Watching iZombie.
6. DS having an extra power adapter that I could use for charging my laptop.

A year ago today.

7/29/15

1. Having dumplings and watermelon for breakfast.
2. Taking a 2 hour nap.
3. Going out to dim sum for lunch with my family.
4. Making it to the gate just as my boarding group was called.
5. Finishing watching Gone Girl.
6. Watching Game of Thrones and House of Lies.

A year ago today.

7/28/15

1. Eating the second half of my broccoli rabe sandwich for breakfast.
2. Making it in to the office in time for a morning interview.
3. Team lunch out at E-San and stopping at the right amount of rice and curry.
4. Catching up with KY and EA after they were gone for much of last week.
5. Talking to ND on the phone before boarding my plane.
6. Sleeping for most of the redeye to EWR.

A year ago today.

7/27/15

1. Getting the landlord's text to put our laptops away right before leaving the house.
2. KS being around to help me find my lost phone at the office.
3. Dan getting me a broccoli rabe and pork sandwich from the Italian Market.
4. Dan patiently going back 3x to retrieve stuff I'd forgotten.
5. Wearing my new white Salt Water sandals to break them in while doing a bit more unpacking.
6. Finding stuff I needed for my trip while moving boxes around, like outlet adapter.

A year ago today.

7/26/15

1. Finding rabbit to be easier for butchering than chicken or pork.
2. Really delicious finished rabbit recipes for lunch at the class.
3. Having DR's help to move a ton of stuff.
4. Finishing packing up most of the kitchen.
5. Getting in touch with everyone to deliver the news.
6. Finishing unpacking the kitchen stuff that we'd brought over.

A year ago today.

7/25/15

1. Getting up in time to check out the NEPTL tool sale.
2. Getting the washer/dryer delivered.
3. Not too difficult a time to help the painter with the red wall upstairs.
4. Getting dinner at SE's birthday BBQ.
5. Getting a couple loads of laundry done at the old place.
6. Being able to talk to CC on the phone for awhile.

A year ago today.

7/24/15

1. Seeing AM for lunch so she could fill out a rental application.
2. Not too much of a hassle to call around and switch over the utilities.
3. Sewing studio time with LA/ZK/AH.
4. Finishing sewing up a sleep mask for myself for my trip next week.
5. Schnitzel sandwich for dinner at Swiss + Hibiscus.
6. Dan having brought over and set up the bathroom and air mattress for us to camp out at the new place.

A year ago today.

7/23/15

1. Not taking as long as I expected to clean up the apartment a bit to take some photos.
2. Remembering to stop by the 7-11 to pick up an Amazon package.
3. Noticing that the 17 bus arriving just as I got to the stop would work for meeting the realtor.
4. Getting the keys to the new place.
5. Having time before my sewing class to meet AM to show her the new place as a potential roommate!
6. Being pretty pleased with the fit of my 2nd muslin for the Morris Blazer.

A year ago today.

7/22/15

1. Meeting with the realtor again to sign the new lease!
2. Box with the majority of my Nordstrom Anniversary Sale not being too embarrassingly large.
3. Finding a couple items from the NAS that I'd been stalking to be back in stock!
4. Fitting the basil CSA onto my bike even with the regular CSA too.
5. Having a really fun time getting to know EL's friend AM.
6. Not taking too long to make up pesto in the food processor, to be frozen into cubes.

A year ago today.

7/21/15

1. Making up sliced tomatoes with mozzarella and pesto on toast for breakfast.
2. Stopping by Powell's on my bike ride in to work to pick up a copy of Missed Connections.
3. Getting a late lunch in before I got too hungry.
4. Continuing my chat with LC and getting life advice from her.
5. Getting a good discussion going on feedback for the public speaking course at work.
6. Taking the evening off a bit.

A year ago today.

7/20/15

1. Getting to chat with LC about managering.
2. MW letting me borrow $20 from him to have cash for the rental application.
3. Realtor coming by to the office for me to be able to give her our rental application.
4. Remembering and turning around to go to the ATM for more cash before heading back up to the office.
5. Pulling it together for giving feedback to my sidekick for the week, even if I didn't finish my own homework.
6. Working on my debugging talk outline a bit in the basement to get cool.

A year ago today.

7/19/15

1. Getting my sewing machine to work for a bit in the morning.
2. Seeing the inside and backyard of the duplex--so much space!
3. Getting a bit of work done at Modern Domestic's open sewing.
4. Not making any egregious mistakes at the kickball game.
5. Meeting my step count for the day by walking to Zupan's and walking home.
6. Hanging out in the basement to get some reading done.

A year ago today.

7/18/15

1. Talking through looking for a new apartment with Dan.
2. Finishing reading Fire.
3. Dan driving me to all my errands in the afternoon.
4. Learning that Ikea will order and ship spare parts to you for free if the store doesn't have that part in stock.
5. Getting through a cooking marathon: chicken stock, pesto, tabbouli, lamb stew, baked salmon, and spiced blueberries canning.
6. Making good progress on finishing my 2nd Scout Tee despite starting fairly late for sewing.

A year ago today.

7/17/15

1. Lunch at Mi Mero Mole with my old team.
2. Picking up extra blueberries and tomatoes!
3. Making it home before my guests by taking my bike on the 20 from Powell's.
4. Throwing together a quick salad for dinner.
5. Finishing watching the BBC Pride & Prejudice with KY/EA.
6. Reading through the first 2/3 of Fire.

A year ago today.

7/16/15

1. Packing quickly enough in the morning to still have time to grab breakfast.
2. Really fun and funny team introduction videos, much better than I had expected.
3. Having an hour to do computer stuff at the office after getting back on the shuttle.
4. Managing to carry all my stuff (luggage, CSA veggies, sewing class stuff) all with me onto the bus.
5. Figuring out a good set of alterations for the Morris blazer pattern during class.
6. Making dinner out of noodles and frozen meatballs/veggies.

A year ago today.

7/15/15

1. Managing to get to breakfast in time to scarf down some food.
2. Getting a lot of knitting done while watching the talks in the overflow room.
3. Getting some computering done over lunch.
4. Having a ball at the juggling lesson social event.
5. Hanging out and chatting with people in the soaking pool again.
6. Hanging out with people by the golf course bar.

A year ago today.

7/14/15

1. Watching Amy Wibowo's talk on hacking a knitting machine and feeling really inspired by it.
2. Zucchini strips saute along with scrambled eggs working out quite well for lunch.
3. Running out to get cash while waiting for the shuttle.
4. Really fun game of Pandemic, even though we lost.
5. Being able to hear bits of the David Gray concert from my room, and recognizing a couple songs.
6. Hanging out in the soaking pool.

A year ago today.

7/13/15

1. Sushi for the goodbye lunch to JS.
2. JS loving the Jotoro cake, gummy planet, and pizza cube.
3. Better attendance at technical book club than we've had in a few weeks.
4. Managing to fit the Ikea table with trestle legs into the car to bring home.
5. Getting my steps in by walking over to North Bar.
6. Seeing DC and BS at bar trivia.

A year ago today.

7/12/15

1. Sleeping the whole night through, with no alarm in the morning, for the first time in over a week.
2. Setting in the sleeves on Scout Tee #2 and being pretty pleased with the fit overall.
3. Getting all the tracing done on the Morris Blazer for class starting Thursday, and didn't even take the whole 3 hours to do it.
4. Picking fresh beans (surprisingly nutty! very good!) and other produce from ELV's garden.
5. Not taking too long to set up some cooking experiments.
6. Craigslist seller accepting my bargaining for a drafting table.

A year ago today.

7/11/15

1. Riding over to Hood River with ELV and getting to catch up with her.
2. Surprisingly not too difficult to get a wetsuit on for me.
3. Enjoying floating in the river.
4. Having a good time chatting with ELV's friends M and T along with EA.
5. Watching the first half of the BBC Pride & Prejudice series with EA and KY.
6. Cutting all the pieces out for Scout Tee #2 and assembling the torso.

A year ago today.

7/10/15

1. Dan giving me a ride in to work with all the stuff that I was bringing in.
2. Using the various sales they had going on at Modern Domestic to get my vintage Singer sewing machine serviced as well as to buy several yards of double gauze fabrics in my favorite colors.
3. Feeling really happy at the Friday Night Sewcial with ladies from work (LA/KY/AB/ZK/EA), plus KM coming by too!
4. Finishing the tracing for Scout Tee #2 with my modifications to try to make it fit better.
5. Going out to dinner with the ladies from work.
6. LA giving me a ride to the studio and home as well.

A year ago today.

7/9/15

1. Catching the right bus in time for my first in-person meeting of the morning.
2. Lunch out at Mother's to celebrate wrapping up a multi-month project.
3. Successfully working out how to fix the bug, after pairing with JS to write a test for it.
4. Skyping with AB(m) to catch up.
5. Comfortable bike ride home at 9pm.
6. Finding a good sized salad bowl/plate, stainless steel mixing bowl, and tongs at Freddy's to bring to the office for easier salad making there.

A year ago today.

7/8/15

1. Having a fun time talking to the students from a robotics camp that KY's dad brought in to the office.
2. Pairing with JS to determine that something odd I'd noticed was actually a bug.
3. Timing it perfectly to catch a #4 bus down to the #15.
4. Throwing together pretty decent salads with CSA lettuce/tomatoes and random pickled things I had in the fridge.
5. Dan giving us a ride over to the salon.
6. EH/S being cool about me heading home at 11:30 first, before EH's multicolored head was done.

A year ago today.

7/7/15

1. Donating Dan's old laptop to Free Geek in the morning.
2. Getting myself to make the videos for the homework before we had the weekly meeting at least, even if I had missed yesterday's deadline.
3. Diverging from the coffee walk to mail something out from the post office, with enough time to join up with that same group.
4. Chatting with non-work but still Ruby people that I knew at the PDX.rb meetup.
5. Finally opening up my PR for fixing the transaction trace nodes.
6. Much cooler weather for biking home.

A year ago today.

7/6/15

1. Dan giving me a ride to work.
2. Making more progress after pairing with JS on some Javascript/Rails stuff.
3. Looking up in time not to miss my bus stop.
4. Still a tiny bit of light out when I got home, to be able to water my plants.
5. Going for a walk around the block to get my steps in for the day and to cool off as well.
6. Pretty quick to get through the Confident Communicator course videos for the week by reading the PDF transcripts.

A year ago today.

7/5/15

1. Getting a load of laundry started before heading up to Seattle for the day.
2. Bonine working and finishing reading Zero to One on the drive up.
3. Seeing PM/KK!
4. Seeing the Chihuly Garden & Glass museum! Such gorgeous colors.
5. Finding a quiet cafe to watch the World Cup final from.
6. Getting another load of laundry done even after getting back.

A year ago today.

7/4/15

1. Getting a bunch of cooking done, including making a double batch of granola and a squash pasta casserole.
2. Getting the fridge in order.
3. Swinging in the hammock at MC/NA's farm.
4. Playing SET with Dan.
5. Lovely, intimate concert by Shannon Curtis.
6. Seeing fireworks along the drive home.

A year ago today.

7/3/15

1. Finishing reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
2. Dan going out to buy the materials for a DIY air conditioner.
3. Successfully constructing the A/C and finding enough space in the freezer to start freezing lots of bottles of water.
4. Picking up lots of cheeses (along with dinner) at Freddy's.
5. Watching the Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice with EA and KY.
6. EA sharing one of her Tillamook mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches with me, yum.

A year ago today.

7/2/15

1. Getting lunch with KR, visiting for the weekend.
2. Better portion size than I had expected for the salad from Garden Bar.
3. Making back in time for most of KL's 2nd practice talk, which was excellent.
4. Tag-teaming with MW for the pairing session with support and being able to address all their questions between the two of us.
5. Talking EA into going shoe shopping with me on Hawthorne.
6. Thinking to stop by the 7-11 to pick up an Amazon package on my walk home.

A year ago today.

7/1/15

1. Not taking too long to review and fix up my "How to be a Better Junior Developer" talk for the summer interns.
2. Another interesting conversation with my boss about managering.
3. My cousin RW being late to our VC too.
4. Rather enjoying catching up with my cousin, even though we've never really known each other all that well.
5. Watching the included refactoring video with the end of Confident Ruby at the PDX.rb book club.
6. First tomatoes in the CSA!

A year ago today.