One of the people I met is a pilot and developer with Swiss, and was surprised when I greeted him in Swiss German. We chatted a bit, and he gave me some chocolate, which brings back memories of my many flights on Swiss. We also exchanged business cards, and I offered to give him a campus tour next time he comes in town, and he offered to try to help me get better seats on flights. Not a bad trade.
It was super fun helping with the developer pre-order at the conference. I got to meet lots of excited people and tell them a little bit about Glass, and I don't think I was completely prepared for the level of interest and excitement. I also want completely prepared for the night out with the team afterwards, so my old self is skipping the party tonight to relax at home.
I'm staying at my friend's place for a couple nights to be close to I/O. After a couple years of house living, I totally forgot that hot water always comes instantly in an apartment.
Also, check out the view from his place.
I'm not the best housekeeper ever, but Boyfriend was pretty impressed when he came home today, and I had done laundry and dishes, collected and taken out the trash, compost, and recycling, and started tidying up the house a bit in anticipation of the cleaning lady coming tomorrow. I also put Fiver through his bath-teeth-nails-ears ritual. Not bad for my messy self. Boyfriend claims that this was not the reason for the flowers and steak.
It's kind of liberating to be able to tell my mom that no, I really, truly don't want or need her to get me anything for my birthday, because I'm doing fine on my own, and that I really would be perfectly happy if she gives the money to her family back in Taiwan, instead.
Boyfriend went to the store to buy steak for dinner, and brought back these.
Also, we're having steak for dinner.
I just went through my bag of foreign money to sort out my pounds and pence for the upcoming trip (more than five weeks away, but it's fun to start thinking about), and remembered how much fun it is to look at all these souvenirs from past trips. One little bag has money from dozens of countries...
Two years after moving into this house, I finally realized that the key fits into these little monkey holders. I had one on my house key when I was living in Zurich, and it was kind of exciting to put one on again.
It has been decades since I've cracked open an egg with twin yolks. I'm going to take that as a good omen.
Had a mini work reunion last night, so we ended up with four lawyers and a law student hanging out after a stressful week all around, a little bit giddy about getting together and blowing off some steam, and ended up blowing off more steam than expected. After champagne, wine, beer, rum, Coke, vodka picklebacks, and liberal doses of Rock Band, YouTube, pizza, and ice cream, we went to sleep as the sun came up. Yes, it was a drunken lawyer sleepover, and it was hilarious fun.
Care package from abroad, sent by friends via the luggage of a coworker. My gummy and chocolate supplies were dwindling to dangerously low levels, so this will tide me over for a while.
My biggest work headache, the one that has woken me up at odd hours and find its way into my dreams (which is unusual, as my dreams usually go towards surreal rather than real) may have become a lot less of a headache.
Lobster rolls for lunch today! I ordered one for later, because I had already made lunch plans to meet up with the one student I've interviewed so far who then got in and matriculated to my alma mater. So I got to catch up with her and eat a lobster roll.
I invited my entire group over for a beer and donut burger cookout tomorrow. Lead software engineer had our product team over for a fancier affair tomorrow. Founder having us over at his place soon. I hope no one notices that mine is the least fancy.
It seems that the trick to making people like your presentation is lots of pictures, which works out, because that's the part I like doing best.
Another day, another pleasant surprise. Some days I can't believe I get paid to do this, and then it gets even better. This is one of those days.
Engineer coworker left his computer unlocked. I updated a few things, some of which he discovered. Big hat tip for deciding that he liked having "pull my finger" as his chat status at work.
Me, do a big demo? It just might happen. I actually did a happy dance at work when the possibility was raised.
