This past weekend I flew to San Francisco to visit my boyfriend and help him start getting settled into the gorgeous new condo he recently purchased and I had yet to see. Upon arrival, I felt like I’d been there before! This was partially due to the photos and raw floor plans he sent me, […]
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Geeknic++ 2009
July 16th, 2009 by pleia2
This past weekend I went to the Geeknic++ Northeast US over at Jenny Jump State Forest. First, the obligatory fire and s’more photos! I ate like a half dozen s’mores, yum yum. I headed out shortly after work on Friday and arrived at the group site around 7PM and scoped out the place before the […]
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars!
July 6th, 2009 by pleia2
I spent the long holiday weekend in San Francisco with MJ. So I’ll start there, for those of you not hovering over twitter MJ and I started dating this weekend :) . MJ and me after fireworks on the 4th We’ve been close friends for years, and in spite of the distance this progression in […]
Sunny NYC
June 28th, 2009 by pleia2
Yesterday I left home around 9AM to head over to New Jersey to meet up with my friend Mike who I was traveling up to New York City with. Plans to head up there came together when I learned my friend Wilmer of the Bitlbee project was going to be up there. Then learned via […]
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Southeast LinuxFest!
June 19th, 2009 by pleia2
This past weekend I rode down to the Southeast Linuxfest in Clemson South Carolina. I tagged along with Freenode reps Jonathan Simpson and Crissi, plus Andrew from the Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo team. I was able to take Friday off from work for the drive down to Charlotte, NC where we were staying, the drive down […]
Wallace and Gromit Exhibit at the Science Museum in London
April 9th, 2009 by pleia2
This is my last post about England, I promise (until I go back! I can’t help myself, I loved it there). The day before I left we headed back into London to go to the opening day of Wallace & Gromit’s World of Cracking Ideas Exhibition. Wow! Opening day of a Wallace and Gromit exhibit! […]
UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
April 4th, 2009 by pleia2
On the 25th and 26th of March I attended the UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference. The first day I was a bit apprehensive, because of public transportation. Getting from Liverpool Street station to Great Portland Street on the tube turned out to be easy, and the conference really was right across the street from the station. […]
Another day in London and other things
April 3rd, 2009 by pleia2
On Thursday the 19th we headed down to London again for a day of walking around the city. The first stop was the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. Just prior to getting there we wandered past an ice cream truck and snagged a couple of 99 Flakes (ice cream on a cone w/ a […]
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Visiting Stonehenge
April 2nd, 2009 by pleia2
On March 18th made the 1.5ish hour drove down to Stonehenge. We went on a Wednesday and it was still pretty busy (apparently weekends are really busy!). Even so, I was able to get a lot of photos of the stones that were relatively people-free. We arrived and parked in the available parking lot. There […]
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Arrival in England and first day in London
March 31st, 2009 by pleia2
I took a flight out of Philadelphia on the night of Saturday the 14th and arrived at Heathrow on Sunday morning. I tried to sleep on the plane, but a crying baby for most of the flight made that tricky. In spite of that, the flight was quite pleasant, I’ll certainly go with British Airways […]
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