- Chatting with EM and KM at breakfast.
- Delightful registration packets for Ruby on Ales--great t-shirt design and a custom coloring book!
- Having a lengua burrito at the park for lunch.
- Meeting and talking to conference attendees in manageably sized small groups.
- Splitting various small plates at Brake with KM for dinner, brussels sprouts and beet-strawberry salad.
- Heading out from the after party at 9.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
3/31/16
Labels:
food,
people,
social event
3/30/16
- Getting the dishes done before heading out from home.
- Hanging out with ZK/KM/JS on the bus down to Bend.
- Clear and sunny day for great views of the various mountains around.
- Bus not actually going through with breaking down through overheating on the trip.
- Yelp not letting me down with finding Joolz, lamb meatballs, halloumi cheese, and a date cake for dessert.
- Going back to my hotel room to watch TV and go to bed early.
3/29/16
- Brilliantly sunny day out.
- Sorting out the various different dance and lifting class passes that I bought and how to use them up before they expired.
- Getting an Incredi-Bowl from Rabbits Cafe for lunch and surprisingly enjoying its soy curls.
- Test suite passing locally on a code deletion branch.
- Getting to another dance class, in trying to make sure I use up the 12x class pack I bought last week.
- Striking up a conversation with someone on the bus home whose wife is currently an Epicodus student.
3/28/16
- JR successfully finding us at the restaurant.
- Getting roast duck pad see euw for lunch.
- Dance class being rather uncrowded.
- Making dinner from pesto, pickled jalapenos, frozen kale, and noodles.
- Watching the first two episodes of The Americans season 4.
- Picking up a couple books in the Powell's 30% off sale.
3/27/16
- Enough time to finish baking the brownie cookies even with the unforeseen step of chilling the dough.
- Fun time chatting with the other guests.
- Delicious smoky ham and other foods at the Easter dinner.
- Thinking to use a hot glue gun for affixing the magnet strips back onto the fridge board.
- Hanging out with KY and EA at EA's place.
- Thin laminate working well to fix some old paperback books I wanted to keep.
Labels:
cooking,
food,
projects,
social event,
timing
Sunday, March 27, 2016
3/26/16
- Getting out of the house over to Lyrical Hip Hop.
- Trying out the Saturday afternoon beg/int hip hop class with a different teacher.
- Visiting a really interesting floating home community for a craigslist buy of a treadmill to make a walking desk.
- Enjoying reading Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
- Realizing I still had time to make it over to the library before it closed at 6.
- Dan making broccoli rabe and sausage pasta for dinner.
3/25/16
- Dan giving me a ride to the office in the morning to avoid the crowds at the Moda Center.
- Really enjoying the ketchup at Little Big Burger for lunch.
- Hanging out with txns and Feelings Friday in the afternoon.
- Getting to J.Crew, the Camper store, Nordstroms, and Blick Art before closing.
- Getting pho and ginger sweet wings at Pho Van Fresh.
- Watching Bridget Jones' Diary on Netflix.
3/24/16
- Fun stitching lunch with some folks I hadn't talked to in awhile.
- Goals check-in with EB.
- Getting to all my errands at Madewell/Anthropologie/Powell's.
- Spending the store credit from selling books on a GoToob container on sale.
- Going to see Hello, I'm Doris by myself and rather enjoying it.
- Not too late when I got home, even after the movie.
3/23/16
- Making the morning bus in 5 minutes after some phone calls.
- Getting Indian food and reading by myself at lunch.
- Others bringing up viewpoint diversity and transparent salary bands first.
- Getting to class before the choreography portion had started.
- Walking over to Lucky Legion for DC's birthday thing.
- Seeing NT at the hangout.
3/22/16
- Getting bibimbap for lunch.
- TB eventually getting the sound system working for LunchConf.
- Starting on the second ball of purple yarn for the cowl.
- Making steady progress on the suggested refactoring.
- Getting dinner before the show, to not pay for overpriced arena food.
- Going to see The Boss!
Labels:
food,
knitting,
music,
programming,
work
3/21/16
- Team lunch with the Node team.
- Getting all my packages from the mail room.
- TK liking the housewarming gift we got him.
- Receiving a thank you card from the St. Mary's class that visited a few weeks ago.
- Keeping up ok at the new dance studio I found.
- Not too long waits for the buses home.
3/20/16
- Checking the body butter I bought at Thistle Stop Cafe yesterday and finding that it was mislabeled and wasn’t actually lavender scented, so I could take my sister’s tub of it instead.
- Watching Pitch Perfect 2 and really enjoying it.
- Getting to the airport in plenty of time, despite staying to finish off the movie.
- Skimming through a couple nonfiction books that had been in my nightstand for ages rather quickly.
- Phone/laptop battery holding out for Candy Crush-ing and reading a Maisie Hobbs book.
- Biscuits and chicken stew made by Dan for dinner.
3/19/16
- Getting our tickets to the Country Music Hall of Fame just in time for the songwriter session from Gretchen Peters, who was great!
- Getting to the Chinese restaurant in time before the end of dim sum.
- Buying some lavender body butter from Thistle Farms to replace the one from Midnite Oil that didn’t work out.
- Going into stores along the main tourist drag downtown for retro clothing and cowboy boots.
- My sister making rib tacos for dinner.
- Watching Captain America: The First Avenger.
3/18/16
- Gorgeously sunny day out.
- Getting BBQ for lunch at the Farmers Market.
- Resolving the test failures on my pull request.
- Walking around Bicentennial Park after lunch.
- Getting fried chicken from Hattie B's Hot Chicken for dinner.
- Really enjoying both opening acts, Jamie Lawson and Blind Pilot.
Labels:
food,
music,
programming,
weather
3/17/16
- Upgrading from the floor to my sister's bed after she had left for work early in the morning.
- Feeling caught up on the night of little sleep prior.
- Finding the sesame oil and other sauces to doctor up the salmon my sister had left for me for lunch.
- Figuring out a better way to think about the tests and straightforward way to clean up the existing tests.
- Showering in plenty of time before we headed out to dinner.
- Getting the extra bitter hot fudge sauce on my ice cream from Jeni's.
Labels:
food,
programming,
sleep,
timing
3/16/16
- Breaking out the foam neck rest and sleeping on the flight to SFO.
- Finishing reading Gravitas and writing most of a new blog post during my flights.
- Remembering I had the Hamilton soundtrack songs saved offline on my phone.
- Lovely weather out in Nashville, sunny but not too warm.
- Discovering swinging benches during the walk.
- Watching TV with my sister.
3/15/16
- Getting my eyebrows done with LA and LR.
- Getting back in time to go with MW/KS on a coffee walk.
- Working on the explain plans ticket again.
- Really getting the Burly Q routine to “The House of the Rising Sun” fully with the 3rd class.
- Just enough pasta, tomato sauce, meatballs, and spinach for dinner.
- Finding my hip hop instructors’ YouTube videos.
Labels:
dance,
errands,
food,
internet,
social event
3/14/16
- Pairing with KS on a script for parsing through the audit logs.
- Lauretta Jeans pies for the Pi Day celebration.
- Ending book club on time, even with voting starting late.
- Getting through the SEPTL calls early in the week for once.
- Picking up better copies of To Kill a Mockingbird and Anne of Green Gables from Powell’s.
- Dan giving me a ride home.
Monday, March 14, 2016
3/13/16
- Sleeping in in the morning.
- Getting a load of laundry done.
- Making rich hot chocolate with whole milk and cocoa spheres.
- Watching Disney movies on Netflix while working on my computer.
- More daylight with the beginning of daylight savings!
- Making spatchcocked roast chicken.
3/12/16
- Taking the Burly Q and lyrical hiphop classes.
- Much easier than I thought it would be to redirect my domain to the auto-published Github page.
- Adding sections on my conference talks and mentoring, tasks that I'd been meaning to do for months.
- Going through expenses for the past couple months.
- Dan making risotto for dinner.
- Re-reading Anne of the Island.
3/11/16
- Catching buses in time to drop off stuff at the office before lunch.
- Lovely, perfectly cooked salmon for lunch at Urban Farmer.
- Going on a Hackbright walk to Cacao.
- Wandering through Penzey's, the re-opened Anthropologie store, and Powell's.
- Getting to Nordstrom and Eddie Bauer in time to complete returns.
- Learning machado with Dan's Catholic group.
3/10/16
- Wearing my black jumpsuit and yellow printed headband.
- Having the rest of yesterday's lamb burrito for lunch.
- Trying out a new gadget from the yarn crawl, a yarn keeper on a bracelet.
- Some sun out during coffee walk.
- Checking for the #8 bus just in time to catch it.
- Vigorous debate kept civil at JG's birthday thing.
3/9/16
- Breaking out my new rainbow umbrella.
- Only eating 5/8s of the lamb burrito.
- Not being too behind on time for the tour for visiting class from St. Mary's.
- Wearing new workout clothes I got from the Nike outlet store.
- Getting to hip hop class just in time, even with the bus being late.
- Getting into a groove and really enjoying the class.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
3/8/16
- Pulling out my black maxi skirt to wear, since I wasn't biking to work, with a white embroidery on black top tucked in, gold bug belt, big gold/black earrings, and sparkly black loafers.
- Bundling two shorter talks today for LunchConf, with both being mostly just interesting stories.
- Getting a couple compliments on my outfit.
- My sister submitting her application, woot!
- Didn't take that long in the end to try to reproduce some support cases, so I could go back to working on my explain plans ticket.
- Getting myself to the Strongman class still despite late revelation that my back tire was flat.
3/7/16
- Overcast daylight for taking photos of my Rose City Yarn Crawl haul.
- Having more patience when looking over my sister's essays again.
- Sunny out during afternoon coffee walk.
- Getting book club reading done in the afternoon.
- Dan giving me a ride home.
- Mixing up pork shoulder with beans for tacos.
3/6/16
- Setting up both of the big slow cookers to make dinner.
- Thinking to walk back home from Close Knit to get back in touch with Dan, after I'd left my phone at home.
- Winning a door prize of a project bag at Yarntastic.
- Dan patiently driving me to all the different stops.
- Successfully finishing the yarn crawl of all 14 stores!
- Downton Abbey series finale.
3/5/16
- Dan getting me to the Burly Q class despite the freight train passing.
- Drinks at Ex Novo with DC/AH/ND.
- Heading out early enough to get to Knit Purl before they closed.
- Getting stamps from all the downtown stores and Twisted before closing, with some fun gadgets and patterns purchased!
- Finding what I wanted at the Nike factory store.
- Dan making meatballs for dinner.
3/4/16
- Tagging along for lunch at Swagat with MW/KS and their friend K.
- Getting a kid-sized scoop of ice cream at Salt & Straw.
- HJ taking on the work of reproducing a customer's setup.
- Pairing with ND at Feelings Friday and getting a fair amount of the logic cleaned up!
- Taking the front fender off my bike so that it would stop rattling around.
- Meeting really friendly people at the Happy Knits party for the Rose City Yarn Crawl.
Labels:
biking,
food,
knitting,
programming,
social event,
work
3/3/16
- Picking up my phone with its screen fixed.
- Getting a screen protector put on it at the Verizon store.
- Talking to JG about engineering team management.
- Enjoying Romeo & Juliet by the Oregon Ballet Theater, with KL/KG/AG.
- Walking to Powell's and getting books there.
- Catching the #6 bus back home ok despite overshooting on the #20.
3/2/16
- Doing a load of laundry while working from home in the morning.
- Dropping off my phone at the cell phone repair shop to get the cracked screen replaced.
- JS visiting us!
- Getting lunch at Verde Cocina with team + JS.
- Still enjoying hiphop dance classes even with sub teacher, fast routine, and getting there late.
- Making Swiss chard pancakes, not bad.
3/1/16
- Finding good reviews of a cell phone repair shop convenient to my route to work after cracking my screen in the morning.
- Having plenty of time between finishing up LunchConf and the recruiting video.
- Didn't take too long to do my interview part of the recruiting video.
- My team not minding that I'd volunteered us to demonstrate the spinning high five to be videoed.
- Feeling on top of the refactoring needed to do the explain plan work in a sensible, organized way.
- Finishing out this season's Agent Carter.
Labels:
errands,
programming,
timing,
TV,
work
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
2/29/16
- Working from home after waking up so frequently during the night.
- Leftovers available for heating for lunch and dinner.
- Book club folks already took care of dialing in to the BlueJeans meeting without needing a reminder.
- Reading the first of the series, The Thief, from the library as an ebook as well.
- Catching up with LW.
- Cleaning up the books on my Kindle.
2/28/16
- Brunch at Verde Cocina with KY/AL.
- Not getting too wet during the walk back to KY's place.
- Hanging out at KY's place until AL needed to head to the airport.
- Borrowing a couple books from KY.
- Reading The Queen of Attolia.
- Finding copies of The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings available from the library as ebooks.
2/27/16
- Skyping with CP in the morning.
- Lunch at Lardo.
- Nice weather out for the hike at the Arboretum.
- Getting a smoothie at Kure.
- Finding a good condition used copy of Sunshine at Powell's.
- Slightly improvised tomato-cabbage-kale-smoked sausage soup coming together pretty well.
2/26/16
- M-Curious lunch at Mi Mero Mole.
- Talking through the Rails source code with MW.
- Getting a hacked together version of the solution working!
- Getting to Athleta to pick up my hemmed top before they closed.
- Making pesto pasta for dinner.
- Finding a way to orient the air mattress with the reduce floor space in the guest room due to the exercise bike placement.
Labels:
cooking,
errands,
programming,
timing,
work
2/25/16
- Making fried eggs on toast for breakfast
- Remembering I had some lunch leftover in work fridge.
- Getting the house cleaned.
- SEPTL calls only took 15 min
- Ducking out to go to a Strongman class.
- Cobbling together dinner of pesto pasta & olives.
2/24/16
- Getting through the feedback call for Femingeer ok, as awkward as it felt a bit.
- Finding an inconsistency with DR in our understanding how something worked (not that inconsistency is good, but good to know that it exists).
- Really fast response from BR on moving the repo over.
- Biking over to the theater in time.
- Really enjoying the show, of military women's experiences.
- Dinner being delicious, with how late I got home.
2/23/16
- Reading Americanah for a bit after waking up in the morning.
- Stopping in at Penzey's on the way back from the coffee walk.
- Getting around to reading up a bit more about Rake.
- Catching up with EB's learning plans and goal-setting.
- Chatting with EA too, instead of going up to the PDX Women in Tech networking event.
- Going to a Burly Q class and working on the routine from Saturday, with more confidence.
2/22/16
- Remembering to put out the freezer bags for the meat CSA delivery.
- No resistance to my proposal about the cross-agent-specs repo.
- VF as a special guest at our book club being a huge success, very cool to learn about practical applications of what we're reading elsewhere at the company.
- Going home for the evening rather than out to Vega.
- Having plenty of freezer space with the meat delivered.
- Starting Americanah without staying up late to finish it.
2/21/16
- Sleeping in in the morning.
- Dan taking care of groceries and dinner.
- Reading the first couple Phryne Fisher books.
- Reading books from the Kindle Klub backlog.
- Lounging on the couch for the vast majority of the day.
- Knitting and watching Downton Abbey.
2/20/16
- Dan giving me a ride to the dance studio.
- Really enjoying the Burly Q class.
- Trying out the chicken karaage at the ramen place near the dance studio.
- Walking back home.
- Hugely enjoying the Joshua Bell concert with the Oregon Symphony.
- Picking up storage baskets and new facial moisturizers to try from Target.
2/19/16
- Dan giving me a ride to the dentist in the morning.
- Getting lunch at Lardo.
- Enthusiastic listener in EB.
- Working steadily through the afternoon.
- Hanging out at Feelings Friday.
- Deciding to go home rather than out to dance class.
Labels:
Dan,
food,
people,
programming,
work
2/18/16
- Covering all the points I'd wanted to hit at the internal job transfer panel.
- Rather enjoying my veggie wrap for lunch.
- Snagging a flight into Rio with Delta miles that I didn't realize I had!
- Getting myself to another Strongman class.
- Learning to do tire flips!!
- Taking care of a bunch of email stuff.
2/17/16
- Pretty quick to get the reading for Business Time done.
- Getting two compliments on my roasted chicken lunch.
- Fixing a quick ticket.
- Not getting too wet on my bike rides.
- The receptionist letting me through to the hip hop class, despite my pass technically having expired.
- Didn't stay up too late reading Princess X.
2/16/16
- Booking various flights for trips in the next couple months.
- Team lunch at Swagat.
- Kid-sized ice cream scoop being just the right size for dessert.
- Still getting in an afternoon coffee walk.
- Getting to the library before class.
- Enjoy myself at the Strongman class.
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