4/7/14

1. Absolutely gorgeous day, sunny and blue skies, didn't need a coat while biking!
2. Getting good advice from JC on sprucing up my slides.
3. Getting into a groove for working on my slides throughout the afternoon.
4. Scarfing down some mashed potatoes and cabbage rolls for dinner before heading back out.
5. Getting to the bar before the trivia started.
6. Finally getting to trivia night with Dan and VM/DC from work.

A year ago today.

4/6/14

1. Eating roast duck for lunch, with the dipping sauce that comes with it.
2. Discovering Robin McKinley released a new book a few months ago (Shadows) and reading it in one go.
3. Getting out to the Bike Gallery warehouse sale before it closed and picking up some spoke lights for my bike.
4. Dan cleaning up the kitchen before I went in to make dinner and lunch for the week.
5. Timing everything pretty well for the stuffed cabbage rolls and mashed potatoes for dinner, along with the frittata for lunch.
6. Not too terrible to clear everything out from under the kitchen sink since the faucet is leaking, but while lots of cardboard boxes needed to be tossed, there wasn't mold or anything like that at least.

A year ago today.

4/5/14

1. Cleaned up the kitchen.
2. Found the black elastic for my bento box after all! It had fallen down to a lower shelf.
3. Dan picking up a roast duck for me from Fubonn, had that with Swiss chard, fried eggs, and toast for a late lunch.
4. Getting a "jammer" (biscuit with jam in the middle) from Grand Central Bakery, deliciously buttery.
5. Catching up with AL.
6. Taking care of taxes to be paid and reconciling expenses for the past month.

A year ago today.

4/4/14

1. Getting up a bit earlier than usual due to Dan working from home.
2. Getting extra index cards from ELV to finish off writing up notecards for my talk (even though I didn't use them at all later).
3. Getting a lot of really, really good feedback on my talk for RailsConf--both in that it was in a good place currently but also very useful suggestions for improvements.
4. Impromptu happy hour with our team's Kraken rum in the lunch room.
5. Coming home to find that Dan had vacuumed.
6. Watching the Call the Midwife Christmas special.

A year ago today.

4/3/14

1. Dentist still seeing me even though I was late to the appointment.
2. Not having additional cavities after all.
3. #9 bus coming right away after all the bad luck with busses in the morning.
4. Remembering to put in my call to the doctor right before their office closed at 5.
5. Grabbing a couple slices of the plain pizza to save for Dan.
6. Getting through remaking the slides for my talk in Keynote and writing out what to say.

A year ago today.

4/2/14

1. KL letting me get breakfast first even after being a few minutes late.
2. KL doing a download of our deployments process so I actually understood it better.
3. Amazingly efficient visit to the dermatologist.
4. Stopping by the eye doctor to get my new glasses adjusted.
5. Wrestling the queue down to similar volume from last week when I took it over.
6. Re-reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

A year ago today.

4/1/14

1. Rubber bands seeming to be sufficient for holding my bento box together when I couldn't find the black elastic that came with the set.
2. Stopping by Walgreens and an ATM on my way to work.
3. Managing to get a handle on most of the urgent tickets in the afternoon.
4. Actually succeeding at climbing for the first time! And a couple new spins too.
5. Dan having the TV all ready and set on to Fox when I got home.
6. Double episode return of The Mindy Project.

A year ago today.