On October 10th of 2012 I embarked on my journey to Ghana. Today I was at the San Francisco airport for another trip, to Illinois, so I can speak at the ACM Projections | Reflections conference on my career in Free and Open Source. While it may not be as exotic as Africa, I am excited about this conference and my talk on Saturday.
Since the trip over my birthday weekend I’ve been keeping pretty busy. Last week a lot of Mozilla folks were in town for a Mozilla conference, so I was able to meet up with my friend Nigel Babu and convince him to get the iconic photo-with-cable-car.
I also attended my first NHL hockey game last week, on opening night for the San Jose Sharks! It was a fun evening, even if I was pretty clueless about hockey. Fortunately for me, the rules are pretty simple and the pace of the game keeps things interesting. I’d like to go again some time, but I still prefer baseball.
More photos from the game here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157636193528914/
After the game, we made a short detour to Google so I could see the latest addition to their Android sculpture garden, the Kit Kat!
It’s also been hot. October in San Francisco is pretty much when summer hits with 80 degree weather and all of our homes without air conditioning. It gets pretty hot in our condo on these days and the ceiling fan is of little use. The roof deck has been nice lately though, so I’ve been taking chunks of time between 3PM – 8PM, when it’s the hottest in the condo to head up to the roof and work from there. The view’s nice too.
On Sunday MJ headed off to a conference, so we made the most of the weekend with a couple of nice brunches on Saturday and Sunday and generally keeping things low key. I’ve kept myself busy this week in his absence after work each day by refining my talk for Projections | Reflections, undertaking a massive organization effort in the condo (it looks so much better!) and adding too many things to my todo list (wait, shouldn’t I have been taking them off?). On Wednesday night I also hosted an Ubuntu Hour and a Bay Area Debian Dinner.
And now I’m on my flight connecting in Chicago. I’ll be at this conference through Sunday, coming home pretty late Sunday night. By Tuesday I plan on being recovered enough from the trip to do my Code Review for Systems Administrators talk at BALUG. And then? That’s my last talk until participation at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November!