I am Iron Woman
This has been an insane seven days, but also seven of the most incredible.
Last Sunday, I boarded a plane in Melbourne. I think my flight was supposed to leave at 13:00. I am also pretty confident it didn't. I know there was a four hourish delay in Sydney, but I also spent those four hours engrossed in a, shall we say, less than Western canon status novel. I also don't really remember those four hours. I'd been traveling for 3 weeks and three days at that point, returning home after linux.conf.au, but I do remember Grant telling me more about PA-RISC, making balloon animals and giving me mini-chocolate squares. Grant, you're awesome. :)
Ben picks me up at SFO.
We drive home.
I decompress.
Eventually, I sleep.
Life is good.
The next day around 10:00 I boarded a plane for LAX. A flight and a shuttle ride later, Ben and I settled into our hotel. I caught up on mail. We had steak dinner with Cat. Pleasant fare, pleasant company. It was a good night.
Walked - that's right, walked in LA - to Disneyland from our hotel room. We were in the park from 11:00 until 01:30 the next day. There weren't very many people there in general, but after 20:00 the park was almost literally deserted. I think most of our co-workers were at California Adventure. We went for many rides, no waiting.
We rode the Matterhorn and Big Thunder Mountain Rail Road twice in a row. We went through the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean seven or eight times each. Indiana Jones is overrated. If Finding Nemo is any indication, I would do very poorly in a submarine. I love Ben because he enjoys the Enchanted Tiki Room right along with me.
Up at 5:45 on Wednesday. On shuttle to the airport in 20 minutes, finally home a little over four hours later. Ran into the office for a quick meeting. Went back home. Crashed. Bliss....
Thursday rolls around. We announce the Grand Prize Winners for Highly Open Participation tomorrow, so I spend the rest of the week getting everything together we need to make that happen. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all about feeling the motivate love. On Friday morning, I pop in to make sure the Plone Strategic Planning Summit kicks off, then go back to making other things happen.
On Saturday, I succumbed to Steve. Yes, I bought an iPhone. The worst part is, I love the darn thing. I mean really love it. I don't particularly think the techie obsession with gadgets is necessarily a good thingTM and refuse to become emotionally involved with my accessories and tools. I still can't change my own battery. This device is still unbelievably awesome. The UI is unbelievably intuitive. Ship of Fools melodiously steals thoughts of time away from me as I pound away at the keyboard, moving messages, making things happen. Sweet bliss.
I still feel dirty, though. Curse you, Steve, for making beautiful products that function so well. Please open source everything Apple as quickly as possible so that I can use your devastatingly sexy toys sans guilt. I will forever thank you and recommend you to all my friends.
As a random aside, there are days I think the only one on the internet that you can believe in is Fake Steve. You have been warned, people.
I'd talk about today, but that'd be eight days and that's too long for a recap. Besides which, the truly awesome things that happened today I can't blog about just yet. Tomorrow though....
So, to come full circle, I mentioned that I started last week returning from LCA, and I'll write more about my experiences later. I do want to give a shout out to two women who were kind enough to share their thoughts with me, Stormy Peters and Sarah Stokely. Conversing with both of them gave me some valuable insights on self-perception, the pull between the professional and personal when blogging about open source and a whole host of other topics. Thanks to both of you ladies for your time. I'll actually be blogging regularly now.
Oh yeah, and I finally got Slashdotted.
Busy couple of weeks ahead. Life is good.
Last Sunday, I boarded a plane in Melbourne. I think my flight was supposed to leave at 13:00. I am also pretty confident it didn't. I know there was a four hourish delay in Sydney, but I also spent those four hours engrossed in a, shall we say, less than Western canon status novel. I also don't really remember those four hours. I'd been traveling for 3 weeks and three days at that point, returning home after linux.conf.au, but I do remember Grant telling me more about PA-RISC, making balloon animals and giving me mini-chocolate squares. Grant, you're awesome. :)
Ben picks me up at SFO.
We drive home.
I decompress.
Eventually, I sleep.
Life is good.
The next day around 10:00 I boarded a plane for LAX. A flight and a shuttle ride later, Ben and I settled into our hotel. I caught up on mail. We had steak dinner with Cat. Pleasant fare, pleasant company. It was a good night.
Walked - that's right, walked in LA - to Disneyland from our hotel room. We were in the park from 11:00 until 01:30 the next day. There weren't very many people there in general, but after 20:00 the park was almost literally deserted. I think most of our co-workers were at California Adventure. We went for many rides, no waiting.
We rode the Matterhorn and Big Thunder Mountain Rail Road twice in a row. We went through the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean seven or eight times each. Indiana Jones is overrated. If Finding Nemo is any indication, I would do very poorly in a submarine. I love Ben because he enjoys the Enchanted Tiki Room right along with me.
Up at 5:45 on Wednesday. On shuttle to the airport in 20 minutes, finally home a little over four hours later. Ran into the office for a quick meeting. Went back home. Crashed. Bliss....
Thursday rolls around. We announce the Grand Prize Winners for Highly Open Participation tomorrow, so I spend the rest of the week getting everything together we need to make that happen. Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all about feeling the motivate love. On Friday morning, I pop in to make sure the Plone Strategic Planning Summit kicks off, then go back to making other things happen.
On Saturday, I succumbed to Steve. Yes, I bought an iPhone. The worst part is, I love the darn thing. I mean really love it. I don't particularly think the techie obsession with gadgets is necessarily a good thingTM and refuse to become emotionally involved with my accessories and tools. I still can't change my own battery. This device is still unbelievably awesome. The UI is unbelievably intuitive. Ship of Fools melodiously steals thoughts of time away from me as I pound away at the keyboard, moving messages, making things happen. Sweet bliss.
I still feel dirty, though. Curse you, Steve, for making beautiful products that function so well. Please open source everything Apple as quickly as possible so that I can use your devastatingly sexy toys sans guilt. I will forever thank you and recommend you to all my friends.
As a random aside, there are days I think the only one on the internet that you can believe in is Fake Steve. You have been warned, people.
I'd talk about today, but that'd be eight days and that's too long for a recap. Besides which, the truly awesome things that happened today I can't blog about just yet. Tomorrow though....
So, to come full circle, I mentioned that I started last week returning from LCA, and I'll write more about my experiences later. I do want to give a shout out to two women who were kind enough to share their thoughts with me, Stormy Peters and Sarah Stokely. Conversing with both of them gave me some valuable insights on self-perception, the pull between the professional and personal when blogging about open source and a whole host of other topics. Thanks to both of you ladies for your time. I'll actually be blogging regularly now.
Oh yeah, and I finally got Slashdotted.
Busy couple of weeks ahead. Life is good.
Labels: ben, disneyland, erasure, fun, ghop, missing persons, work
posted by Leslie Hawthorn at 7:06 PM
2 Comments:
OK, the title of the blog post suddenly makes a lot of sense after having read it. Disneyland is fun. Air travel just isn't.
@ zvoase: Agreed. Love airports, could do without plane rides.
Congratulations for all your great work in GHOP!
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