Things That Were Good Today

Monday, April 13, 2015

Having time to get breakfast from Kure before the bus came in the morning.
Nice weather out for our 8K walk—sunny, but not hot.
Finding the North Bar group photo in the end.
Getting to the Portland Art Museum finally to see the Italian Style exhibit.
Perfect timing to catch a 15 bus back home.
Rousing myself off the couch to go to the gym and finish the rest of the workout I’d started yesterday.

Sleeping in to catch up on sleep finally.
Making the rest of the dumplings and a couple open-faced grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch.
Getting myself to the gym still to at least get the cardio portion of the workout done.
Enough light out when I got home to tend to my plants for a bit.
Reading A Stranger to Command throughout the evening.
Watching Mad Men after Dan got home.

Getting in early to work and having breakfast there for the first time in a couple weeks.
Finding an abandoned Snapware container with glass Pyrex bottom to appropriate for transporting my lunch in.
Celebratory lunch at Bailey’s for EH’s promotion.
Having time to keep converting the code snippets on my slides over and clean them up more.
Practice talk going over pretty well! Smoother than I had expected, but ended right at 28min and got plenty of good feedback.
Deciding to stay in for the night rather than go to the gym and keep reading Crown Duel.

Going to a knitting lunch for the first time in a few weeks.
Getting a tip from the others that there are plugins to help with copying over code as text but with syntax highlighting still.
Succeeding in writing a Selenium test in less than an hour.
Staying late in the office to keep working on my slides.
Having enough extra lunch to have a portion for dinner while I was still at the office.
Dan coming by to give me a ride home.

Getting myself out the door in 3 minutes.
Interesting conversation about engineering management at lunch.
Successfully updating the agent for my sample local Java app.
Catching a 33 just in time to not have to wait long for the 15, even with going back up to bring my leftovers home with me.
Getting a load of laundry done in the evening.
Making steady progress on building out my talk.

Getting myself to the gym in the morning and finishing the whole workout in time to catch a bus to the office to still be on time for standup.
Going out for lunch with RC.
Getting the dirty fries at Lardo.
Getting my test environment setting up and finding that the same problems were still there.
Giving a 5 min version of my Ask vs. Guess Cultures talk at the Ruby meetup.
Reheating some of my leftovers for dinner.

Successfully bringing in multiple containers of food into the office.
Feeling like I had a better handle on the open questions for the config project.
Very educational and funny discussion for first book club meeting on Exceptional Ruby.
Finding that someone had washed my Pyrex pan with the plum cobbler in it already.
Skipping trivia to work on my talk.
Finishing off our taxes.