Monday, January 11, 2016

1/6/16

  1. Wearing my cape coat and my gray quilted baseball cap for Sherlock-themed-ness.
  2. Catching myself before slipping on ice in walking to the bus stop.
  3. Getting some more regex testing in.
  4. Eating the rest of my lunch leftovers for dinner, since I realized I wouldn't need it for Friday lunch.
  5. Going to see the Sherlock Christmas special, The Abominable Bride!
  6. Getting a ride home from JG and his wife.
A year ago today.

1/5/16

  1. Getting my various packages that had been delivered to the office in the last 2 weeks.
  2. Pairing with BW to figured out the impact of freezing strings in different Ruby versions.
  3. LunchConf talk turning out to only be 35 minutes long, not 50 minutes.
  4. 1:1 with my manager bringing insightful questions.
  5. Happy hour at upstairs Bailey's with txns.
  6. Dan giving me a ride home.
A year ago today.

1/4/16

  1. Frying up some eggs to have on toast for breakfast again.
  2. Working from home for the day due to the Icepocalypse.
  3. Keeping just plain hot water in the vacuum jug, to have different teas throughout the day.
  4. Making progress on benchmarking regexes.
  5. Heating up the red roast duck curry for dinner.
  6. Google Hangout with SP on code schools.
A year ago today.

1/3/16

  1. Making fried eggs with jam on toast for breakfast.
  2. Getting all the cooking for dinner tonight and lunch next week done in the morning, while watching a webinar.
  3. Handy.com cleaner still coming, despite the snow.
  4. Once the main part was done, not time-consuming to make up the beef noodle soup.
  5. Dan making me hot chocolate.
  6. Seeing that Galavant and Downton Abbey were back on.
A year ago today.

1/2/16

  1. Making fried eggs with jam on toast for breakfast.
  2. Finishing reading The Story of a New Name.
  3. Helping paint a mural at the SEPTL!
  4. Not needing to wait too long for the bus after walking over to Grand.
  5. Watching Master of None and knitting.
  6. Watching Notting Hill and knitting.
A year ago today.

1/1/16

  1. Catching up on sleep.
  2. Having a long weekend to just be at home.
  3. Not too long to get the unpacking done.
  4. Pulling a dinner together of noodles and freezer items.
  5. Getting the bills/receipts together.
  6. Watching Aziz Ansari's most recent standup special.
A year ago today.

Friday, January 1, 2016

12/31/15

  1. Getting through the 7 houses in Havertown and Drexel Hill.
  2. Lunch at the Avenue Delicatessen with BBL/DL.
  3. Getting the checked bags just under the 50lb. weight limit.
  4. Reading the books I'd saved for these flights home.
  5. Bags coming out pretty quickly.
  6. Taking a cab to get home sooner.
A year ago today.

Top good things in 2015:
  1. Joining the Ruby agent team, with TK as my boss.
  2. Trip to South Africa with AB.
  3. KonMari-ing all of my belongings, in the Great Spring Purge of 2015.
  4. Moving to a bigger place with an open kitchen layout and separate spaces for Dan's desk and my craft area.
  5. Seeing my friends in various widespread locations: NYC, Philly, Boston, SF, Seattle, and even Hamburg.
  6. Getting 3 new talks accepted, written, and delivered, in 3 different states and 2 different countries.