3/31/16

1. Chatting with EM and KM at breakfast.
2. Delightful registration packets for Ruby on Ales--great t-shirt design and a custom coloring book!
3. Having a lengua burrito at the park for lunch.
4. Meeting and talking to conference attendees in manageably sized small groups.
5. Splitting various small plates at Brake with KM for dinner, brussels sprouts and beet-strawberry salad.
6. Heading out from the after party at 9.

(apparently I forgot to do one for this day last year! :/ 30 days have September...)

3/30/16

1. Getting the dishes done before heading out from home.
2. Hanging out with ZK/KM/JS on the bus down to Bend.
3. Clear and sunny day for great views of the various mountains around.
4. Bus not actually going through with breaking down through overheating on the trip.
5. Yelp not letting me down with finding Joolz, lamb meatballs, halloumi cheese, and a date cake for dessert.
6. Going back to my hotel room to watch TV and go to bed early.

A year ago today.

3/29/16

1. Brilliantly sunny day out.
2. Sorting out the various different dance and lifting class passes that I bought and how to use them up before they expired.
3. Getting an Incredi-Bowl from Rabbits Cafe for lunch and surprisingly enjoying its soy curls.
4. Test suite passing locally on a code deletion branch.
5. Getting to another dance class, in trying to make sure I use up the 12x class pack I bought last week.
6. Striking up a conversation with someone on the bus home whose wife is currently an Epicodus student.

A year ago today.

3/28/16

1. JR successfully finding us at the restaurant.
2. Getting roast duck pad see euw for lunch.
3. Dance class being rather uncrowded.
4. Making dinner from pesto, pickled jalapenos, frozen kale, and noodles.
5. Watching the first two episodes of The Americans season 4.
6. Picking up a couple books in the Powell's 30% off sale.

A year ago today.

3/27/16

1. Enough time to finish baking the brownie cookies even with the unforeseen step of chilling the dough. 
2. Fun time chatting with the other guests.
3. Delicious smoky ham and other foods at the Easter dinner.
4. Thinking to use a hot glue gun for affixing the magnet strips back onto the fridge board.
5. Hanging out with KY and EA at EA's place.
6. Thin laminate working well to fix some old paperback books I wanted to keep.

A year ago today.

3/26/16

1. Getting out of the house over to Lyrical Hip Hop.
2. Trying out the Saturday afternoon beg/int hip hop class with a different teacher.
3. Visiting a really interesting floating home community for a craigslist buy of a treadmill to make a walking desk.
4. Enjoying reading Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
5. Realizing I still had time to make it over to the library before it closed at 6.
6. Dan making broccoli rabe and sausage pasta for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/25/16

1. Dan giving me a ride to the office in the morning to avoid the crowds at the Moda Center.
2. Really enjoying the ketchup at Little Big Burger for lunch.
3. Hanging out with txns and Feelings Friday in the afternoon.
4. Getting to J.Crew, the Camper store, Nordstroms, and Blick Art before closing.
5. Getting pho and ginger sweet wings at Pho Van Fresh.
6. Watching Bridget Jones' Diary on Netflix.

A year ago today.

3/24/16

1. Fun stitching lunch with some folks I hadn't talked to in awhile.
2. Goals check-in with EB.
3. Getting to all my errands at Madewell/Anthropologie/Powell's.
4. Spending the store credit from selling books on a GoToob container on sale.
5. Going to see Hello, I'm Doris by myself and rather enjoying it.
6. Not too late when I got home, even after the movie.

A year ago today.

3/23/16

1. Making the morning bus in 5 minutes after some phone calls.
2. Getting Indian food and reading by myself at lunch.
3. Others bringing up viewpoint diversity and transparent salary bands first.
4. Getting to class before the choreography portion had started.
5. Walking over to Lucky Legion for DC's birthday thing.
6. Seeing NT at the hangout.

A year ago today.

3/22/16

1. Getting bibimbap for lunch.
2. TB eventually getting the sound system working for LunchConf.
3. Starting on the second ball of purple yarn for the cowl.
4. Making steady progress on the suggested refactoring.
5. Getting dinner before the show, to not pay for overpriced arena food.
6. Going to see The Boss!

A year ago today.

3/21/16

1. Team lunch with the Node team.
2. Getting all my packages from the mail room.
3. TK liking the housewarming gift we got him.
4. Receiving a thank you card from the St. Mary's class that visited a few weeks ago.
5. Keeping up ok at the new dance studio I found.
6. Not too long waits for the buses home.

A year ago today.

3/20/16

1. 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.
2. Watching Pitch Perfect 2 and really enjoying it.
3. Getting to the airport in plenty of time, despite staying to finish off the movie.
4. Skimming through a couple nonfiction books that had been in my nightstand for ages rather quickly.
5. Phone/laptop battery holding out for Candy Crush-ing and reading a Maisie Hobbs book.
6. Biscuits and chicken stew made by Dan for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/19/16

1. Getting our tickets to the Country Music Hall of Fame just in time for the songwriter session from Gretchen Peters, who was great!
2. Getting to the Chinese restaurant in time before the end of dim sum.
3. Buying some lavender body butter from Thistle Farms to replace the one from Midnite Oil that didn’t work out.
4. Going into stores along the main tourist drag downtown for retro clothing and cowboy boots.
5. My sister making rib tacos for dinner.
6. Watching Captain America: The First Avenger.

A year ago today.

3/18/16

1. Gorgeously sunny day out.
2. Getting BBQ for lunch at the Farmers Market.
3. Resolving the test failures on my pull request.
4. Walking around Bicentennial Park after lunch.
5. Getting fried chicken from Hattie B's Hot Chicken for dinner.
6. Really enjoying both opening acts, Jamie Lawson and Blind Pilot.

A year ago today.

3/17/16

1. Upgrading from the floor to my sister's bed after she had left for work early in the morning.
2. Feeling caught up on the night of little sleep prior.
3. Finding the sesame oil and other sauces to doctor up the salmon my sister had left for me for lunch.
4. Figuring out a better way to think about the tests and straightforward way to clean up the existing tests.
5. Showering in plenty of time before we headed out to dinner.
6. Getting the extra bitter hot fudge sauce on my ice cream from Jeni's.

A year ago today.

3/16/16

1. Breaking out the foam neck rest and sleeping on the flight to SFO.
2. Finishing reading Gravitas and writing most of a new blog post during my flights.
3. Remembering I had the Hamilton soundtrack songs saved offline on my phone.
4. Lovely weather out in Nashville, sunny but not too warm.
5. Discovering swinging benches during the walk.
6. Watching TV with my sister.

A year ago today.

3/15/16

1. Getting my eyebrows done with LA and LR.
2. Getting back in time to go with MW/KS on a coffee walk.
3. Working on the explain plans ticket again.
4. Really getting the Burly Q routine to “The House of the Rising Sun” fully with the 3rd class.
5. Just enough pasta, tomato sauce, meatballs, and spinach for dinner.
6. Finding my hip hop instructors’ YouTube videos.

A year ago today.

3/14/16

1. Pairing with KS on a script for parsing through the audit logs.
2. Lauretta Jeans pies for the Pi Day celebration.
3. Ending book club on time, even with voting starting late.
4. Getting through the SEPTL calls early in the week for once.
5. Picking up better copies of To Kill a Mockingbird and Anne of Green Gables from Powell’s.
6. Dan giving me a ride home.

A year ago today.

3/13/16

1. Sleeping in in the morning.
2. Getting a load of laundry done.
3. Making rich hot chocolate with whole milk and cocoa spheres.
4. Watching Disney movies on Netflix while working on my computer.
5. More daylight with the beginning of daylight savings!
6. Making spatchcocked roast chicken.

A year ago today.

3/12/16

1. Taking the Burly Q and lyrical hiphop classes.
2. Much easier than I thought it would be to redirect my domain to the auto-published Github page.
3. Adding sections on my conference talks and mentoring, tasks that I'd been meaning to do for months.
4. Going through expenses for the past couple months.
5. Dan making risotto for dinner.
6. Re-reading Anne of the Island.

A year ago today.

3/11/16

1. Catching buses in time to drop off stuff at the office before lunch.
2. Lovely, perfectly cooked salmon for lunch at Urban Farmer.
3. Going on a Hackbright walk to Cacao.
4. Wandering through Penzey's, the re-opened Anthropologie store, and Powell's.
5. Getting to Nordstrom and Eddie Bauer in time to complete returns.
6. Learning machado with Dan's Catholic group.

A year ago today.

3/10/16

1. Wearing my black jumpsuit and yellow printed headband.
2. Having the rest of yesterday's lamb burrito for lunch.
3. Trying out a new gadget from the yarn crawl, a yarn keeper on a bracelet.
4. Some sun out during coffee walk.
5. Checking for the #8 bus just in time to catch it.
6. Vigorous debate kept civil at JG's birthday thing.

A year ago today.

3/9/16

1. Breaking out my new rainbow umbrella.
2. Only eating 5/8s of the lamb burrito.
3. Not being too behind on time for the tour for visiting class from St. Mary's.
4. Wearing new workout clothes I got from the Nike outlet store.
5. Getting to hip hop class just in time, even with the bus being late.
6. Getting into a groove and really enjoying the class.

A year ago today.

3/8/16

1. 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.
2. Bundling two shorter talks today for LunchConf, with both being mostly just interesting stories.
3. Getting a couple compliments on my outfit.
4. My sister submitting her application, woot!
5. 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.
6. Getting myself to the Strongman class still despite late revelation that my back tire was flat.

A year ago today.

3/7/16

1. Overcast daylight for taking photos of my Rose City Yarn Crawl haul.
2. Having more patience when looking over my sister's essays again.
3. Sunny out during afternoon coffee walk.
4. Getting book club reading done in the afternoon.
5. Dan giving me a ride home.
6. Mixing up pork shoulder with beans for tacos.

A year ago today.

3/6/16

1. Setting up both of the big slow cookers to make dinner.
2. Thinking to walk back home from Close Knit to get back in touch with Dan, after I'd left my phone at home.
3. Winning a door prize of a project bag at Yarntastic.
4. Dan patiently driving me to all the different stops.
5. Successfully finishing the yarn crawl of all 14 stores!
6. Downton Abbey series finale.

A year ago today.

3/5/16

1. Dan getting me to the Burly Q class despite the freight train passing.
2. Drinks at Ex Novo with DC/AH/ND.
3. Heading out early enough to get to Knit Purl before they closed.
4. Getting stamps from all the downtown stores and Twisted before closing, with some fun gadgets and patterns purchased!
5. Finding what I wanted at the Nike factory store.
6. Dan making meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

3/4/16

1. Tagging along for lunch at Swagat with MW/KS and their friend K.
2. Getting a kid-sized scoop of ice cream at Salt & Straw.
3. HJ taking on the work of reproducing a customer's setup.
4. Pairing with ND at Feelings Friday and getting a fair amount of the logic cleaned up!
5. Taking the front fender off my bike so that it would stop rattling around.
6. Meeting really friendly people at the Happy Knits party for the Rose City Yarn Crawl.

A year ago today.

3/3/16

1. Picking up my phone with its screen fixed.
2. Getting a screen protector put on it at the Verizon store.
3. Talking to JG about engineering team management.
4. Enjoying Romeo & Juliet by the Oregon Ballet Theater, with KL/KG/AG.
5. Walking to Powell's and getting books there.
6. Catching the #6 bus back home ok despite overshooting on the #20.

A year ago today.

3/2/16

1. Doing a load of laundry while working from home in the morning.
2. Dropping off my phone at the cell phone repair shop to get the cracked screen replaced.
3. JS visiting us!
4. Getting lunch at Verde Cocina with team + JS.
5. Still enjoying hiphop dance classes even with sub teacher, fast routine, and getting there late.
6. Making Swiss chard pancakes, not bad.

A year ago today.

3/1/16

1. Finding good reviews of a cell phone repair shop convenient to my route to work after cracking my screen in the morning.
2. Having plenty of time between finishing up LunchConf and the recruiting video.
3. Didn't take too long to do my interview part of the recruiting video.
4. My team not minding that I'd volunteered us to demonstrate the spinning high five to be videoed.
5. Feeling on top of the refactoring needed to do the explain plan work in a sensible, organized way.
6. Finishing out this season's Agent Carter.

A year ago today.

2/29/16

1. Working from home after waking up so frequently during the night.
2. Leftovers available for heating for lunch and dinner.
3. Book club folks already took care of dialing in to the BlueJeans meeting without needing a reminder.
4. Reading the first of the series, The Thief, from the library as an ebook as well.
5. Catching up with LW.
6. Cleaning up the books on my Kindle.

4 years ago today.

2/28/16

1. Brunch at Verde Cocina with KY/AL.
2. Not getting too wet during the walk back to KY's place.
3. Hanging out at KY's place until AL needed to head to the airport.
4. Borrowing a couple books from KY.
5. Reading The Queen of Attolia.
6. Finding copies of The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings available from the library as ebooks.

A year ago today.

2/27/16

1. Skyping with CP in the morning.
2. Lunch at Lardo.
3. Nice weather out for the hike at the Arboretum.
4. Getting a smoothie at Kure.
5. Finding a good condition used copy of Sunshine at Powell's.
6. Slightly improvised tomato-cabbage-kale-smoked sausage soup coming together pretty well.

A year ago today.

2/26/16

1. M-Curious lunch at Mi Mero Mole.
2. Talking through the Rails source code with MW.
3. Getting a hacked together version of the solution working!
4. Getting to Athleta to pick up my hemmed top before they closed.
5. Making pesto pasta for dinner.
6. Finding a way to orient the air mattress with the reduce floor space in the guest room due to the exercise bike placement.

A year ago today.

2/25/16

1. Making fried eggs on toast for breakfast
2. Remembering I had some lunch leftover in work fridge.
3. Getting the house cleaned.
4. SEPTL calls only took 15 min
5. Ducking out to go to a Strongman class.
6. Cobbling together dinner of pesto pasta & olives.

A year ago today.

2/24/16

1. Getting through the feedback call for Femingeer ok, as awkward as it felt a bit.
2. Finding an inconsistency with DR in our understanding how something worked (not that inconsistency is good, but good to know that it exists).
3. Really fast response from BR on moving the repo over.
4. Biking over to the theater in time.
5. Really enjoying the show, of military women's experiences.
6. Dinner being delicious, with how late I got home.

A year ago today.

2/23/16

1. Reading Americanah for a bit after waking up in the morning.
2. Stopping in at Penzey's on the way back from the coffee walk.
3. Getting around to reading up a bit more about Rake.
4. Catching up with EB's learning plans and goal-setting.
5. Chatting with EA too, instead of going up to the PDX Women in Tech networking event.
6. Going to a Burly Q class and working on the routine from Saturday, with more confidence.

A year ago today.

2/22/16

1. Remembering to put out the freezer bags for the meat CSA delivery.
2. No resistance to my proposal about the cross-agent-specs repo.
3. 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.
4. Going home for the evening rather than out to Vega.
5. Having plenty of freezer space with the meat delivered.
6. Starting Americanah without staying up late to finish it.

A year ago today.

2/21/16

1. Sleeping in in the morning.
2. Dan taking care of groceries and dinner.
3. Reading the first couple Phryne Fisher books.
4. Reading books from the Kindle Klub backlog.
5. Lounging on the couch for the vast majority of the day.
6. Knitting and watching Downton Abbey.

A year ago today.

2/20/16

1. Dan giving me a ride to the dance studio.
2. Really enjoying the Burly Q class.
3. Trying out the chicken karaage at the ramen place near the dance studio.
4. Walking back home.
5. Hugely enjoying the Joshua Bell concert with the Oregon Symphony.
6. Picking up storage baskets and new facial moisturizers to try from Target.

A year ago today.

2/19/16

1. Dan giving me a ride to the dentist in the morning.
2. Getting lunch at Lardo.
3. Enthusiastic listener in EB.
4. Working steadily through the afternoon.
5. Hanging out at Feelings Friday.
6. Deciding to go home rather than out to dance class.

A year ago today.

2/18/16

1. Covering all the points I'd wanted to hit at the internal job transfer panel.
2. Rather enjoying my veggie wrap for lunch.
3. Snagging a flight into Rio with Delta miles that I didn't realize I had!
4. Getting myself to another Strongman class.
5. Learning to do tire flips!!
6. Taking care of a bunch of email stuff.

A year ago today.

2/17/16

1. Pretty quick to get the reading for Business Time done.
2. Getting two compliments on my roasted chicken lunch.
3. Fixing a quick ticket.
4. Not getting too wet on my bike rides.
5. The receptionist letting me through to the hip hop class, despite my pass technically having expired.
6. Didn't stay up too late reading Princess X.

A year ago today.

2/16/16

1. Booking various flights for trips in the next couple months.
2. Team lunch at Swagat.
3. Kid-sized ice cream scoop being just the right size for dessert.
4. Still getting in an afternoon coffee walk.
5. Getting to the library before class.
6. Enjoy myself at the Strongman class.

A year ago today.