Born in Atlanta, Georgia at 12:35 Eastern on September 29th 1981, I am now over 30 years old. I had a nice birthday. I wasn’t able to take the afternoon off as I have in years past since I have a lot of travel coming up and we’re very busy right now. As soon as […]
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Uncle Keith, travel, office, pools and food
September 22nd, 2011 by pleia2
I lost my Uncle Keith to cancer on Friday, September 16th (obituary). It was an expected loss and I am glad I was able to spend some time him earlier this month. We weren’t close, and any condolence should go to my aunt, his wife, I know what it’s like to watch a loved one […]
Week, zoo and a news reader
September 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
I’m sitting in the San Francisco airport, my flight to Phoenix is delayed by a half hour so I’m taking the extra time to chill in the United lounge that I have access to for another month through my lounge pass. So, this past week! MJ was out of town on a work trip from […]
Projects, 3DS, Netflix, email, OLPCSF, baseball and other misc
August 20th, 2011 by pleia2
Back on the 10th I hosted an Ubuntu Hour and Debian dinner. For the first time we had more people at the Debian dinner than at the Ubuntu hour, with 5 people coming out to the Ubuntu Hour and 8 to the dinner. It was nice to get to catch up with some people and […]
Sea lions, SF Zoo March of the Penguins and Internets
July 31st, 2011 by pleia2
Friday evening I wrapped up work and needed some fresh air so I hopped on a street car (#1893) and headed down to visit the sea lions at Pier 39. On my way I was browsing Twitter and saw an article from The Marine Mammal Center: Rescue Efforts for Two Sea Lions Entangled in Ocean […]
Projects and Aquarium of the Bay
July 18th, 2011 by pleia2
Have I mentioned lately how nice it is to have a proper task manager? I didn’t realize how much I’d value my history of completed items or how much time I’d save until now. It’s really transforming how I allocate my time and I’m able to do a much better job of figuring out how […]
Engagement weekend
July 14th, 2011 by pleia2
As I mentioned in my last post, we spent the weekend at The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa. We began our weekend Saturday morning with a shared room service order of crab eggs Benedict and a plate of smoked salmon with cream cheese and a bagel – yum! From there it was down to […]
Our engagement
July 14th, 2011 by pleia2
Our second anniversary was July 3, 2011 and MJ told me we’d be going on a trip but didn’t tell me any of the details aside from “we won’t be going on a plane” so I could pack accordingly. On the evening of Friday, July 1st, MJ came home early and we dressed up for […]
Engaged!
July 5th, 2011 by pleia2
On Friday evening MJ proposed and I said yes! I was completely surprised up until the moment he asked. The whole proposal was quite an amazing undertaking, complete with a limo, a professional photographer, a winery rented out for the evening and private catering for our dinner in a wine cave. The evening ended with […]
Blind pinnipeds, conservation and other things
June 28th, 2011 by pleia2
I had a very productive, if mellow, week last week. Inspired by setting up my new desk, Tuesday evening I hopped on Caltrain and met MJ for a trip to Ikea to look at some office furniture. We didn’t find anything particularly inspiring but it did help us refine our search some and we ended […]