11/13/18

1. Getting a smoked salmon and avocado crepe for breakfast.
2. Finishing up my slides with enough time to do a run-through, grab lunch, and make it to JS' talk.
3. Getting another crepe for lunch.
4. Getting through the talk.
5. Hanging out and chatting with AM after the closing keynote.
6. Tagging along with SC and JY to a really excellent Korean BBQ place.

A year ago today.

11/11/18

1. Sunny day out.
2. Nico having a grand time outside.
3. Finding coupon codes for additional discounts when buying some winter clothes for Nico.
4. Noticing that there was mortgage application paperwork that would need to be printed out.
5. Finally settling on a slide design set for my talk.
6. Nico falling asleep independently after some minor protest.

A year ago today.

11/6/18

1. Pretty quick and efficient process at the polling location to vote this morning.
2. Succeeding at figuring out which endpoints to make charts for.
3. Finishing up rough draft of slides before my scheduled practice run.
4. Hitting the timing pretty well on the first run-through.
5. Dan thinking to making rice for dinner.
6. Taking the night off from worrying about my talk, now that I had set of draft slides.

A year ago today.

11/5/18

1. Getting around to filing my expense report.
2. Extended working sessions actually being quite helpful.
3. Dan covering shorter childcare coverage days this week.
4. One more dinner of oxtail with noodles.
5. Watching an episode of Fixer Upper as a break from working on the talk.
6. Calling it a night after getting an extended outline done for my talk.

A year ago today.

8/14/18

1. Getting notice of my talk being accepted!
2. Fresh tomato and avocado toast and corn working out well for lunch.
3. Getting BS' help figuring out what's going on with a domain.
4. Dan taking Nico for the early evening so I could get a workout in.
5. Finishing watching the Ballet Now documentary on Hulu.
6. Nico eventually settling himself back to sleep after a startled wakeup.

A year ago today.

7/27/18

1. Continuing streak of no overnight nursing even with a 3:45am cry out.
2. Morning to myself after Dan took Nico out to the grocery store.
3. Finishing editing my talk proposal.
4. Going for a walk and sitting by the small pond.
5. Getting advice from AM.
6. Doing a workout after bedtime was done.

A year ago today.

7/26/18

1. Managing to get both daycare tours done still.
2. Dan and I being on the same page about the daycares.
3. Getting back right at the end of the first nap.
4. Making noodles to go with the rest of the red duck curry for lunch.
5. Getting a cost-of-living raise.
6. Sitting down and incorporating the edits into my talk proposal.

A year ago today.

2/7/18

1. Getting reminded of my first morning meeting after checking my computer for something else.
2. Making plans to go to dance class on Saturday with ZK.
3. Nico falling asleep independently in the crib for the third nap.
4. Finishing watching the conference talk on rate limiting in APIs.
5. Having some of the Costco roast chicken to round out my dinner.
6. Nico having a relatively peaceful bedtime again.

A year ago today.

6/8/17

1. Timing it well for updating my slides and getting ready in the morning.
2. Getting back to the hotel in time to catch a ride with KS back over to the West End.
3. Checking out the Harry Potter graphic design work in the exhibition at House of MinaLima.
4. Browsing the Liberty of London department store.
5. The bouncer at the next door bar ushering me in for a spot to sit and charge my phone.
6. Getting in for dinner at Nopi, with delicious zucchini-manouri fritters and cardamom yogurt and fruitiest olive oil with bread I've ever had.

A year ago today.

1/24/17

1. Warming myself up with hot mint tea.
2. Watching a well put-together talk ("Tricking Out the Terminal") for LunchConf.
3. ID helpfully answer some of my initial questions on how to approach the refactoring.
4. Steady working throughout the afternoon, despite initial frustration with coming up with names.
5. Hiding out in one of the new rooms for quiet but not cold space.
6. Canceling gymnastics class to stay and finish up the work.

A year ago today.

1/3/17

1. Having a bagel sandwich with grilled cheese and tomato soup.
2. Watching concurrency talk finally and following along.
3. Returning books to the library.
4. Going to gymnastics class.
5. Dan getting broccoli so I could throw together lunch for the week.
6. Sunbutter toast with an apple and ginger tea.

A year ago today.

11/16/16

1. Wearing my long red puffer coat.
2. NW helping pull data.
3. Eating lunch by myself while finishing talk video.
4. Maple mustard amazing on the chicken too.
5. Zappos shoes arriving already!
6. Watching The Crown.

A year ago today.

11/10/16

1. Getting breakfast at Panera.
2. Tasting Skyline chili.
3. My cough staying under control during my talk.
4. Getting a bit of a crowd for the discussion afterwards.
5. Getting lamb ribs and mussels.
6. Being given extra bread for the mussels.

A year ago today.

11/9/16

1. Getting up in time to shower.
2. Not too long to repack my bag.
3. No support tickets coming in.
4. Going to the gym!
5. Good food at the speaker dinner.
6. Not too long to update the resources section.

A year ago today.

10/28/16

1. Making it to the venue on time.
2. Getting shoutouts in AP's talk.
3. Understanding the memory management talk.
4. Buying embroidery from the ladies in the courtyard.
5. Getting my squats in.
6. Having seafood at dinner.

A year ago today.

10/27/16

1. Waking up at 6:30 without an alarm.
2. AP being there for my puns.
3. Winning chess matches.
4. My Harry Potter shirt being a huge hit.
5. All food covered.
6. Karaoke party.

A year ago today.

9/3/16

1. Walking by a man doing aerials from a tree on the way to the venue.
2. Talk going well! Filled to 30 minutes and people laughed at jokes, even with the translation.
3. Crepe with Peruvian chicken for lunch.
4. Walking by a market and talent show in the McDonald’s parking lot, with a young girl belting out Adele songs.
5. Starting a new novel (The Just City) to pass the time between the end of the conference and the afterparty.
6. Conference organizers calling an Uber for me to get back from the afterparty.

A year ago today.

9/1/16

1. Large number of people who were even later than I was to the tour :P
2. Learned lots of stuff about Colombia during the walking tour.
3. Great snacks along the way, including cup of mango cubes and a delightfully crispy empanada.
4. Enjoying the walk back from the train station with the greenery and murals around.
5. Delicious steak at a place not far at all from the apartment.
6. Not actually taking all night to finish up the slide for my talk!

A year ago today.

6/21/16

1. Having breakfast myself, before the talk.
2. Very friendly and warm response to my talk!
3. MW taking care of release stuff.
4. Receiving a Raspberry Pi as a speaker gift.
5. Getting blog post writing done.
6. Getting home in time for my usual bedtime.

A year ago today.

6/20/16

1. Meeting 3 people I have connections in common with.
2. Not too busy a support day.
3. Getting through newsletter backlog.
4. Getting the pork cheek ramen for dinner.
5. Picking up another bubble tea :)
6. Didn't take too long to adapt my slides for the conference.

A year ago today.