Sunday was full of jetlag. My flight the previous night had gotten in at 7PM but the time zone difference from Budapest was killer. I managed to stay up past 10PM but I woke up bright and early on Sunday when Bay to Breakers started at 7AM. B2B is the annual race in San Francisco that goes across the city from the bay to the ocean and people dress up (or dress in nothing) and make all kinds of noise across the city partying as they go. Since I had been woken up I decided to head up to the roof to check it out from above, that’s where I met a neighbor who had the same idea I did, but he was there with a beer in hand.
I then went downstairs to see from the street level and from there went down the block to grab some coffee and breakfast. The noise died down by around 9:30AM and the street cleaning trucks were out in full force before opening up the streets to traffic again.
The rest of my day was spent pondering (and taking) naps, watching TV, reviewing Ubuntu Developer Summit blueprints, playing with the cats and catching up on email which I had neglected while at UDS. MJ was still in Philadelphia for most of the day but was scheduled to land at the San Francisco airport around 11PM. Unfortunately his flight was delayed 3 hours and it wasn’t until 2AM that I was able to finally head down and pick him up. Jet lag recovery would have to wait, and it made for an interesting work day on Monday.
Wednesday I was starting to feel human again jetlag-wise and hosted the monthly San Francisco Ubuntu Hour downstairs at The Roastery on New Montgomery Street. Grant Bowman showed up a bit early so I headed down early as well to catch up with him before others arrived. We had about 5 people total come out and had some nice discussions about the latest release, I was able to hand out some of the Ubuntu 11.04 disks that Canonical had shipped to the Ubuntu California team (thanks again!).
Thursday was a busy day, aside from work I had to chair a thankfully short Ubuntu Women meeting and then at 5PM we had an Americas Membership Board meeting. As soon as that wrapped up MJ came home and I snagged the car to drive down to Mountain View for their monthly Ubuntu Hour that I promised to attend to bring down CDs for the lower pennisula area. It was nice to see all the Mt View folks, and as always check out the latest Linux-powered gadgets that Michelle brought along to show off.
I think the coolest for me was her touchscreen X61T Thinkpad. Not only did the touchscreen work well, it even had pressure sensitivity! So cool!
Friday evening MJ and I spent on a mad dash to the mall after realizing that our “nice clothes” wardrobe was heavily weighted to northern climates and nothing would work for a family event on a small boat in Miami beach. I hate shopping for clothes, but I found staff at stores in the mall where I shopped super helpful when I put myself at their mercy and walked out with two beautiful dresses that look great and were within my budget, win! We then grabbed some takeout and headed home to pack, I ended up in bed around 12:30.
Our flight today took off at 6AM, which means MJ didn’t sleep and I got about 2 hours of sleep before it was time to get up and get ready to head out. We left home at 3:30AM, parked the car at a lot outside of Oakland airport and arrived with enough time to grab some breakfast before our flight boarded. As I write this we’re on the Oakland to Phoenix portion of our flight, we have a short layover in Phoenix before going on to Fort Lauderdale. We’ll be spending the weekend with MJ’s father and girlfriend at a family beach house near Miami, Sunday is the actual family event we’re there to attend. Monday afternoon we’ll be flying back home.