After dinner it was off to Penn’s Landing for the countdown. It was chilly and drizzly out but fun anyway, great company.<\/p>\n
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While he was visiting we also went to see Sherlock Holmes<\/a>, which was fun but forgettable. I think part of this has to do with my preference for Basil Rathbone and Peter Cushing as Holmes and as lovely as Robert Downey Jr. is I don’t think I could get over that.<\/p>\n In the week since the visit I’ve been busy catching up on things from the holidays, managed to accomplish the Herculean feat of getting my inbox below 20 emails (from a peak of near 200 before the holidays) and I have a whole pile of Ubuntu related meetings in the coming weeks. Last Wednesday I attended Mark Jason Dominus’ PLUG Central talk on “10 useful tools and how I wrote them” which was enjoyable as his talks always are (slides here<\/a>). Tomorrow I’ll be heading down to PLUG North for PostgreSQL Replication Solutions presented by Bruce Momjian<\/a> which I’m really looking forward to.<\/p>\n Speaking of speaking, based on a blog post by Rikki Kite<\/a> I picked up the pdf version of Confessions of a Public Speaker<\/a> by Scott Berkun and have been reading it and 40 pages in I’m still captivated. Spending this past year exploring the world of public speaking has been quite the eye-opener for me and I have to say that I’m quite pleased to have decided to get into public speaking, something you couldn’t have paid me any amount of money to do just a year ago. Books like this help a lot, knowing that it’s natural to be nervous when you speak and mistakes are things to be anticipated and handled rather than avoided.<\/p>\n My mother is coming to visit on Friday and we’ll be spending the weekend exploring Philly! I had my sister visit in the spring of ’09 but in all my years of living down here I’ve never had my mother visit so I’m looking forward to having her stay here for a few days. Moving stuff is coming along, but I’m trying to avoid packing too much until after my mother’s visit, I don’t mind living with piles of boxes but I’d rather not do it while I have company :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a fantastic time with MJ while he was visiting over New Years. To celebrate we met up with some friends in Old City Philadelphia for dinner at Triumph Brewing. I had been to their location in New Hope never been to the one in Philadelphia, and I have to say I prefer their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}