At the end of November we flew home from Florida, which meant we had a little recovery time on Sunday after taking the boys to swim class, and then on Monday, December 2nd, Aaron turned 4 years old! Given the timing of holidays and travel plans of our own and friends, we decided to decorate […]
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November books, politics, and fossils
December 26th, 2024 by pleia2
We had a very busy September and October with outings on most weekends. Most of them have been free events aimed at families, or came as part of one of the museum memberships we have. It’s been a lot of fun, but November changed things up a bit. The first weekend in November began with […]
SeaGL 2024
December 23rd, 2024 by pleia2
Back in 2018 I attended my last conference before we welcomed our first child, the Seattle GNU/Linux conference (SeaGL). I was about 5 months pregnant and gave one of the keynotes! It was a great final adventure before parenthood, and I’m grateful to have had the opportunity. I wrote about it more here: SeaGL 2018. […]
Lego, hardware, and a typewriter at IBM TechXchange 2024
November 21st, 2024 by pleia2
One of the things I’ve learned in my five years at IBM is that the enterprise nature of the company means that our IBM-branded events are incredibly important to our ecosystem, and people are really excited to attend them, me included. Brand events are something I’ve definitely seen in my two decades in the tech […]
Open Mainframe Project at IBM TechXchange 2024
November 19th, 2024 by pleia2
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of traveling to Las Vegas to participate in the IBM TechXchange 2024 conference. My big project there was as one of the leaders of the Open Mainframe Project event, which we’d been working on for months and took a bunch of my time (and stress!) during that […]
Autumn activities and Sukkot
October 30th, 2024 by pleia2
Autumn has always been my favorite season. I love pumpkin spice, the cooler weather, and Halloween. There are always a lot of festivals and fun things around, and we always find a handful of Halloween activities to go to with the kids. It’s also a busy time since we also observe the High Holy days […]
Niles Canyon Railway Train
October 28th, 2024 by pleia2
On Sunday, October 13th we made our way over to Niles Canyon Railway for my birthday present: tickets on the steam train! The weather was beautiful and we arrived right on time to line up to board the train. The train leaves from Sunol and you take about a 90 minute journey south through lots […]
Science in the Park, a robot, and being organic
October 19th, 2024 by pleia2
In early October we discovered a local annual event called Science in the Park. It was at a nearby university campus, and it sounds like it hadn’t been held in several years as a result of the pandemic so it was our first time going. We weren’t sure what to expect, but it definitely exceeded […]
Birthday and Rosh Hashanah
October 18th, 2024 by pleia2
On September 29th I turned 43 years old. It was actually kind of a bummer, because the boys and I were dreadfully sick with a cold that included fevers. In the days around it, they missed school and everyone slept poorly. We couldn’t go out to swim class, a movie at the theater with Adam’s […]
MUNI Heritage Weekend 2024
October 4th, 2024 by pleia2
Last year we missed MUNI Heritage Weekend due to the whole house being taken down by a COVID-19 infection, so with everyone feeling well this year, we made sure to make our return to the festival I love! This year marks the first time MJ and Aaron have attended, with me having gone a bunch […]