{"id":3915,"date":"2011-01-06T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T04:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2018-12-31T18:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:13:51","slug":"2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/2010\/","title":{"rendered":"2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/philly_from_camden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/philly_from_camden_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>Philadelphia (from Camden)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2010 began with New Years in Philadelphia with MJ, on his final visit before my move, and our friend Nita.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012010\/mj_lyz_new_years_2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012010\/mj_lyz_new_years_2010_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I then had my final weeks in the Philadelphia area. This final Philadelphia winter turned out to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/breaking\/Its-Officially-the-Snowiest-Winter-in-History-84065947.html\">snowiest winter in recorded history<\/a>. What a send off!<\/p>\n<p>In February my apartment was converted to box land and on February 16th, MJ, the cats and I bid farewell to Philadelphia and flew to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/paboxes2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022010\/paboxes2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My life with MJ in San Francisco these past 10 months has been amazing. Insert all the mushy stuff here :) I miss Philadelphia and certainly miss my friends, but I haven&#8217;t for a moment regretted my decision to move out here to be with him.<\/p>\n<p>Conferences! Surprising to many these days, I hadn&#8217;t actually <em>been<\/em> to a tech conference until the spring of 2008. In 2010 I went to 4.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Source Business Conference (San Francisco)<\/li>\n<li>Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit (San Francisco)<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Developer Summit (Brussels, Belgium)<\/li>\n<li>OLPCSF Collaboration Summit (San Francisco)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus various Geeknics, LUG meetings, Ubuntu Hours and other Linux events. I&#8217;ve never been so active in a local community, and while I have to admit that it was a lot of fun, by the end of the year I was seeking to reclaim some of my free time to get back to core project work. Finding a balance is challenging when there is always so much cool stuff going on, but it&#8217;s certainly a wonderful problem to have.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/conferences_2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/conferences_2010_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Travel! I hit Silver on the USAir Dividend Miles program. While travel has always been on my list of things I wanted to do, it&#8217;s always taken a back seat to more pressing needs. This year I was exceptionally fortunate to get sponsorships and other opportunities that allowed me to travel quite widely and modestly (sponsorship to Belgium, hotel paid for in Dublin).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February: Philadelphia to San Francisco (one way &#8211; the move!)<\/li>\n<li>May: San Francisco to Brussels<\/li>\n<li>September: San Francisco to Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li>October: San Francisco to Dublin<\/li>\n<li>November: San Francisco to Las Vegas<\/li>\n<li>November: San Francisco to New Hampshire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a total of almost 40,000 miles. I have come to the conclusion that (in spite of crazy TSA stuff) I love to fly and I find no shame in being a tourist. Plus I&#8217;m infinitely grateful that I&#8217;m finally in a position to travel, having the monetary means (including sponsorship opportunities) and flexibility with work so I could travel outside the constraints of typical &#8220;2 weeks per year&#8221; American vacation time allotment (the conference in Brussels? I was able to use PTO, not vacation time. Philly trip? I worked from the hotel all week.). We also took advantage of a long weekend over the 4th of July to drive to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/places_2010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/places_2010_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When we weren&#8217;t traveling or doing local Linux things, we were playing the tourist in our own beautiful city. I love San Francisco, I fell in love when I <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1251\">first visited here in 2008<\/a>. I love the climate, I love that it&#8217;s such a tech mecca, I love the touristy nature of it, I love the food, I love the cable cars, I love the Giants and the A&#8217;s! Loving all of this probably means I&#8217;m not nearly <em>cool<\/em> enough to be here, but I do feel at home here. And without a doubt, nothing beats being near an ocean again. The Pacific on a crisp day brings me back to when I found solace in late night walks to ocean in Maine as a teenager and I find a peace that has been elusive for years.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/sf_from_alcatraz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/012011\/sf_from_alcatraz_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>San Francisco (from Alcatraz)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2010 was, without a doubt, one of the best years of my life so far. May 2011 be just as grand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia (from Camden) 2010 began with New Years in Philadelphia with MJ, on his final visit before my move, and our friend Nita. I then had my final weeks in the Philadelphia area. This final Philadelphia winter turned out to be the snowiest winter in recorded history. What a send off! In February my apartment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoy","category-life","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14534,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/14534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}