5/31/18

1. Getting to read the reviews and reactions to The Americans series finale.
2. Resisting the urge to linger and add too many snacks at Trader Joe's.
3. Making a trip to Lowe's to scout out replacement blinds.
4. Dan finishing up cooking the fried rice.
5. Putting up the new paper blinds and looking like they make a difference for the light leakage.
6. Finishing off watching the Kingsman movie together with Dan.

A year ago today.

5/30/18

1. Feeling less sick overall.
2. Re-reading my old Module#prepend blog post and feeling good about it.
3. Nico having an amazing nap day, despite the early wakeup.
4. Dan noticing the blowout before it contaminated anything else.
5. Persisting in going out for a walk.
6. Watching The Americans series finale. Wow.

A year ago today.

5/29/18

1. Making dumplings for lunch again.
2. Teaching CB about feeding solids and SpoonfulOne to Nico for lunch.
3. Nico waking up a little bit during the transfer to the crib from nursing for the second nap.
4. Taking an afternoon nap myself to help with recovering from the cold.
5. My phone falling out from the sheets I was putting into the washer before I started the load.
6. The dryer load working quickly enough to put sheets back on the bed before Nico's bedtime.

A year ago today.

5/28/18

1. Indulging in ramen for lunch.
2. Taking an afternoon nap.
3. Making dumplings for a second lunch.
4. Thinking to start cooking with plenty of time to account for 90 min Instant Pot cooking.
5. Brisket falling apart and smelling really good.
6. Nico falling asleep all on his own for the first time in awhile.

A year ago today.

5/27/18

1. Dan putting Nico down for the first nap.
2. Dan making another batch of meatballs.
3. Finishing up the hakurai turnips from a few days ago.
4. Reading a couple different books.
5. Ok to ease off on cooking since it was a 3-day weekend.
6. Staying in my pajamas all day.

A year ago today.

5/26/18

1. Dan doing all the pre-loading of the car in the morning.
2. Getting myself together to shower before we needed to head out.
3. Getting to check out Doylestown.
4. Indulging in lunch from Chick-Fil-A.
5. Nico catching his second nap in the car ride back.
6. Dan remembering to make the brussels sprouts in time to finish before dinner.

A year ago today.

5/25/18

1. Getting to dial in to the podcast taping.
2. Taking time for lunch afterwards.
3. Happening to see a message about getting another deploy out quickly.
4. KS not being too held up by an accident on the roads.
5. Being able to stay online for work a little bit later than usual.
6. Relaxing evening.

A year ago today.

5/24/18

1. My back feeling better with the firm mattress on the day bed.
2. Happening to check the bank account funds and noticing a mistake in how I'd calculated the transfers out yesterday.
3. Figures working out so that there wasn't an overdraft.
4. Pull request queue staying pretty clear before demo day.
5. Watching the recording of the team training and learning what add-ons are.
6. All of us hanging out together after the end of the work day.

A year ago today.

5/23/18

1. Team training having been recorded.
2. Moving a bunch of funds around for investments.
3. Thinking to put the turnip greens in my frittata as an easy way to use them up.
4. Chicken and sweet potato stew finally coming to pressure and sealing.
5. Signing up for a site membership in time to take advantage of this week's chat with an expert.
6. Not fully waking up Nico when I retrieved a package.

A year ago today.

5/22/18

1. Nico not falling asleep during second breakfast.
2. CB getting Nico down for his first nap without too much intervention needed.
3. DA getting my pull requests out before I went on secondary.
4. CB also succeeding at getting Nico down for nap #2 without needing to use the stroller.
5. KS and ES visiting in the evening.
6. Getting the blackout panels put up in my office without losing my balance.

A year ago today.

5/21/18

1. Getting Nico down for the first nap without nursing to sleep and without too much intervention needed.
2. Noticing on my own that a pull request from Friday had broken tests.
3. Nico making up for the overnight and prepping for the doctor's visit with a mega morning nap.
4. No friction at the doctor's visit.
5. Timing working out well for Nico to fall asleep on the car ride back and get a 30 minute nap in.
6. Making brisket in the Instant Pot.

A year ago today.

5/20/18

1. Nico waking up at a good time to go out for mass with Dan.
2. Lying in bed reading all morning.
3. Hanging out in Nico's room as he played by himself contentedly.
4. Staying in my pajamas all day.
5. Taking a nap in the afternoon.
6. Dan taking Nico out for a stroller nap.

A year ago today.

5/19/18

1. Transferring Nico to the crib for his first nap while sleepy but awake.
2. Making productive use of naptime with making a grocery list, getting started cooking, and setting up bank transfers.
3. Having enough time to have the remaining fried rice for a first lunch.
4. Not actually too heavy rain out at the farmers market.
5. Noticing a vendor with some Swiss chard and Hakurai turnips still on our way out.
6. Getting dinner done surprisingly early.

A year ago today.

5/18/18

1. Figuring out how to create a team on staging, even with multiple steps in the way.
2. Supplementing my cabbage soup for lunch with leftover frozen Ikea veggie balls from last weekend.
3. Managing to pick up a few more simple cards and open pull requests.
4. Nico falling asleep in the stroller for the second nap.
5. Dan's family visiting after graduation ceremonies.
6. Dan making pasta and meatballs for dinner.

A year ago today.

5/17/18

1. Re-reading documentation enough times to understand DMARC.
2. EL confirming what I had thought about a ticket I picked up.
3. New Relic stock price rising to the limit order I had set before I messed with it again.
4. KL helping send me test emails.
5. Getting better at finding events in logs.
6. Getting to watch The Americans.

A year ago today.

5/16/18

1. Successfully rolling creds using the tooling I had built.
2. Cooking up the rest of the sweet potatoes.
3. Remembering that I wanted to look into selling my New Relic stock.
4. Cooking up dumplings before standup but enjoying them afterwards.
5. BS giving me the suggestion of testing via directly using Mailgun's API.
6. Pretty quick to make a batch of fried rice.

A year ago today.

5/15/18

1. Succeeding at figuring out how to get a Go server running locally and communicating with it.
2. Finding a fairly simple fix.
3. Working while sitting on the daybed.
4. Watching a co-worker's talk on cognitive behavioral therapy tactics.
5. Starting sweet potatoes in the toaster oven at lunch working out for having them ready for dinner.
6. Watching the new Ali Wong comedy special on Netflix.

A year ago today.

5/14/18

1. First night with a 8hr+ stretch in awhile.
2. Nico actually going back to sleep for a bit longer after a 5am wakeup.
3. Nico adjusting pretty quickly to the new nanny.
4. Fixing up my branch to address feedback.
5. Being able to start rice and sweet potatoes to go with dinner during the afternoon.
6. Getting through a mandatory training.

A year ago today.

5/13/18

1. Working together with Dan to get ready for having people over.
2. Showering in plenty of time before the first arrivals.
3. Hosting family for Mother's Day even with our lack of couch.
4. Making another batch of chicken adobo in the Instant Pot.
5. Taking Nico out to sit on the grass for a bit.
6. Having some quiet time in the evening.

A year ago today.

5/12/18

1. Nico taking an excellent first nap, unlike last Saturday.
2. Succeeding at getting a price adjustment for an online order.
3. Still making it to the West Windsor farmers market.
4. Indulging in a bag of apple cider donuts.
5. Checking out the Trenton farmers market too.
6. Trying two new things in the Instant Pot: pot-in-pot cooking and making dal.

A year ago today.

5/11/18

1. Not too difficult to lower the frame on the daybed bedframe to the lowest possible.
2. Figuring out how to make the changes in the Go codebase just from reading documentation.
3. Getting encouraging feedback on the pull request I opened yesterday.
4. Going outside to sit on a blanket on the grass for a bit.
5. Actually not having too difficult a time of it with a solo evening and bedtime.
6. Spending time reading before going to bed myself.

A year ago today.

5/10/18

1. Pairing vegetables from my mom with Instant Pot chicken en adobo for lunch.
2. Suddenly seeing how to write the script in a pretty straightforward way.
3. Not missing anything in categorizing Amazon purchases for the last couple months.
4. Lentil stew from the weekend defrosted enough to get it out of the jar.
5. Timing making the frittata pretty well in-between dinner and bathtime.
6. Dan remembering to put my frittata into the fridge.

A year ago today.

5/9/18

1. Blackout curtains not falling down overnight.
2. Ordering better curtain hardware.
3. Making dumplings for lunch.
4. Feeling much much better after taking a nap.
5. Instant Pot accessories arriving to try out pressure cooking hard-boiled eggs.
6. Sitting down to look through bills for April.

A year ago today.

5/8/18

1. Trading off childcare in the morning with Dan.
2. Having fish that my mom made for lunch.
3. Having conversations about the promotion process.
4. Ikea mattress arriving for the daybed in my office.
5. Getting the blackout curtains washed and hung up before bedtime.
6. Dan being responsible and not letting me talk him into watching a second episode of The Americans.

A year ago today.

5/7/18

1. Morning timing working out so that MF could get Nico down for the first nap.
2. Making burgers with avocado for lunch.
3. Getting a few minutes with DA to talk through how to approach the next task.
4. Giving Nico avocado in his ring pop for the evening.
5. Remembering the bottle in the fridge.
6. Watching another episode of The Americans.

A year ago today.

5/6/18

1. Making chicken in adobo in the Instant Pot.
2. Having the apartment all to myself for the whole afternoon.
3. Making lentils with sausage and chard in the Instant Pot.
4. My mom coming over and bringing more food.
5. Being able to move enough stuff to the freezer to fit everything in the fridge.
6. Nico falling asleep early enough for us to watch another episode of The Americans.

A year ago today.

5/5/18

1. Making it to the farmers market.
2. Picking up a knish and a savory small pie.
3. Pretty quick to get a local library card.
4. Having dumplings for lunch.
5. Dan finding another farmers market nearby that also has a butcher.
6. Getting episode 2 of The Americans in.

A year ago today.

5/4/18

1. Trying to start a new habit of starting the day with drinking a full glass of water.
2. Logging confirming that it was ok to delete an old code path.
3. Having central A/C when it got hot out.
4. Finding tools for converting CSVs into markdown tables.
5. Showing Nico off at the team watercooler.
6. Finally starting this current (and last!) seasons of The Americans.

A year ago today.

5/3/18

1. Dan taking Nico out to Shop Rite in the morning after an early wakeup.
2. Taking the quiet time in the morning to do some apartment reorganizing and cleanup.
3. Succeeding in getting a replacement for my Kindle Paperwhite.
4. Finishing off my spreadsheet inventory before the end of the day.
5. Having family dinner together.
6. Knocking off two tasks on my to-do list even in the evening.

A year ago today.

5/2/18

1. Finding that CB was still available for the summer.
2. Having the Topo Mini standing mat for more comfortable use of my standing desk throughout the day.
3. KM remembering to reach out before the end of his day.
4. Nico making up for the early morning wakeup with two long naps.
5. My mom coming by and bringing lu ro and bok choy with her for dinner. 
6. Making a frittata quickly in the evening.

A year ago today.

5/1/18

1. Pairing with MB and getting a handle on what I should be doing next.
2. Watermelon as dessert with lunch.
3. SN/JG taking the train from Manhattan to visit!
4. SN helping me carry the box with the Topo Mini mat back to the apartment.
5. Dan going out to pick up pizza for us for dinner.
6. Still keeping up Nico's evening routine, even with the guests.

A year ago today.