Thursday, June 28, 2012

pilot program

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.

booth babes

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.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

i/o

I/O, I/O, it's off to work/play I go!

oh yeah

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.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

godliness

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.

birthday

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.

steak dinner

Boyfriend went to the store to buy steak for dinner, and brought back these.

Also, we're having steak for dinner.

fun money

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...

mon-key

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.

founder's day

Spent Thursday hanging out with the team at a party hosted by one of the founders. I had a bit of wine, so I decided not to risk wielding knives or working with open flames during the cooking lessons. Second bonus was that a few of us stayed around after most of the people left, chatting and sobering up before driving home. Good times.

summer plans

A bunch of stuff came together over the last few days, and the rest of summer is suddenly looking very inviting:

  • I got my pass to go to I/O, which is this week
  • My good friend made up her mind and booked her tickets to come spend July 4th here, and so I've started making plans and restaurant reservations
  • Two of my favorite people may come through town for about 20 hours in August, which would be awesome, as we haven't seen each other since they had their baby
  • Boyfriend and I booked the major flights for a two week trip in August -- we'll check out Fringe in Edinburgh (the main purpose of the trip), but it turns out we'll also catch the annual World Pipe Band Championships, and we'll spend some time in Iceland, as well (something I've been wanting to do for almost 20 years)
Life is so much more exciting when you have fun plans coming up.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

wakey wakey

Chicken sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich in bed? Don't mind if I do.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

sunday

Forgot to write about Sunday:

  1. Scottish coworker had an afternoon party at his place, complete with cucumber sandwiches, Pimm's, scones, and a bouncy house.
  2. Then we went out for crabs, but there was a line, so we got bubble tea.
  3. Then we had crabs.

welcome wagon


A few of us took one of the conference bikes for a ride yesterday (and Fiver came along), to welcome a new lawyer after his first day of orientation. 

twins

It has been decades since I've cracked open an egg with twin yolks. I'm going to take that as a good omen.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

we are young

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.

Friday, June 15, 2012

sugar rush

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.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

to do

These will keep me busy for a while.

good news

I just got to deliver some unexpected work-related good news to Boyfriend! Stay tuned to see how this pans out...

visitor

A very good friend might be coming out here over July 4th, which would be awesome, because it looks like we won't be able to travel to the East coast, as originally planned, due to work conflicts...

lobster again

OK, twist my arm, I'll have more lobster for lunch today, this time in a sunomono salad.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

maybe maybe

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

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.

Monday, June 11, 2012

weekend retrospective


  • Had people over for a work BBQ, and introduced the willing to donut burgers
  • Went to a friend's housewarming party, with several benefits: we were able to use up the rest of our keg and extra cookies and donuts from my work BBQ, had fun food from the food truck she had hired, and caught up with my former manager, who is on leave
  • A friend came by yesterday to catch up over burgers; he came all the way down from Oakland to check out Project Glass (and see us... but mostly to check out Project Glass)

Thursday, June 7, 2012

one upmanship

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.

trick

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.

two day streak

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.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

open season

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.

windfall

Unexpected bonus!

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

demo

Me, do a big demo? It just might happen. I actually did a happy dance at work when the possibility was raised.

Friday, June 1, 2012

win

I got Glass today, after much waiting, and the team awarded me the weekly internal MVP award (hence the cape). Happy day for this geeky lawyer.

reunion

Office mate from last summer is back in town, and he came over for dinner. Fiver was ecstatic, once he figured out who it was.