During his commute on Friday MJ heard about the Pacific Voyagers visiting San Francisco, so on Saturday following a breakfast of waffles and blueberries we headed out to check them out. They crossed the Pacific in their small boats, you can check out their page charting the course here. Crazy.
The event was held on Treasure Island which I’d never actually been to. It was all very low-key and there was a huge line to get a ride out to the boats for a ride that we passed on, but it was really cool to see the boats and have an excuse to visit the island. Afterwards we went across the street to the Oasis Cafe for some hot sandwiches.
More photos are over on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157627262285071/
We had a bunch of errands to run so from there we headed back to the city. Grocery shopping ended up being more exciting than usual as we ran into one of the co-founders of the Southern California Linux Expo who introduced himself when he saw MJ’s SCaLE shirt. We also picked up a 6 quart crock pot, which I’ve been eyeing for quite some time now in my quest to find easy, healthy meals to make. Now I just need to dig my crock pot recipe book out of storage downstairs…
Sunday I spent the whole day at a charter school with Partimus which I’ll talk about in a separate post. I got home a little after 5 in time to do some dishes and laundry before dinner.
For dinner I actually used a recipe from a USAirways Magazine. “Grilled Diver Scallops with Ginger-Marinated Watermelon” sparked our interest while reading the recipe on our recent flight to Philadelphia and the end result didn’t disappoint.
Bonus that it was easy enough for even me not to mess up!
In other news, I’ll be visiting some family in Phoenix over Labor Day weekend. I’ve been meaning to do a quick visit over there for a while and that three day weekend is a nice opportunity to do so. I’m really looking forward to it, it’s been a few years since I’ve seen my aunts and it’ll be nice to see my cousin before he moves out to Texas.
Been super busy with project work lately, still working on updating documentation over at DarkMyst and chugging away on Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter releases and trying very hard to help with automated scripts and recruitment of volunteers so I don’t burn out on the process (it’s tedious, and never-ending!). The latest Ubuntu Women leadership elections have also kicked off, I’m the only incumbent running and we’ve got some awesome potential co-leaders. I was recently granted formal membership in the Xubuntu Team after several months of working through maintenance and updates of xubuntu.org and helping coordinate the upcoming migration to WordPress (read about and give feedback on our new theme proposal here). I haven’t been getting out much on weekdays lately, but this Wednesday I’m hosting an Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner and next week my schedule is looking pretty packed (including a baseball game on Monday!). Also spending more time reading these past few weeks as I’m trying to catch up on my pile of magazines and have ordered some core principles sysadmin books to work toward further rounding out my informal education now that I’ve reached Intermediate level sysadmin-wise.
But tonight (it’s already 9PM! I’ve been at my desk working for 12 hours!) the plan is to settle in with some takeout and a bit of television Yay new Torchwood!