Today we went out to breakfast, did strawberry picking at our CSA farm in Dixon, then had Betsy and Cody over for a Turkish dinner evening.
I hope it was a day worthy of how great a mother Micky is.
Happy Mother’s Day darling
Amelia has just gotten out of surgery for a new hernia she developed a few months ago.
All is well.
Hopefully this is the end of the road with her oemophalocele related stuff. You can never say never, but it would be really nice.
Thank God we live in San Francisco where the best of the best in pediatric and neo-natal surgeons can be found. Sometimes these things happen for a reason.
So I’m very clearly far behind in posting. I’m going to radically update a bunch of dates, and I’m hoping to get caught back up on the New Year’s resolutions quickly!
But don’t worry… I’m alive and well ๐
Flew home today.
The flight was easy. The Tube strike meant there was chaos on the rode, and the driver was freaking out. People freak out about things that just don’t matter. If we’re late, then we’re late. It’s going to be fine.
Hopped on the plane. Landed. First one off the plane, and through customs. Hopped into the car, and straight to the office ๐
Worked through some late night meetings, got home, kissed Micky.
I woke up today at 4:30am, and got downstairs. The driver and I (a huge Arsenal fan who also skipped last night’s game) picked up Ian, and headed to the airport. We hopped on the flight, and headed to Madrid!
It was probably the best possible way to get the most time. The full 2 hour plane ride was diving deep into process, organization, and strategy. I asked a million questions. I got a million and one answers. We went deep, we went wide.
When we got to Telefonica headquarters, I got my badge (which is a process), setup camp, and kept going.
Right around the non-Spanish lunch hour of noon, we bought got hungry. Ian didn’t think the cafeteria would be open, but we said screw it, and headed down there. Got some fried rice. Talked about life.
Ian had a meeting to hop into, and I was going to catch Jorge to talk shop as well. Ian headed out, and apparently I passed out. Next thing I know it’s 4pm (the meeting was at 3:30), but it all worked out, we met up, and we’re off.
When we got back to the UK, Fiona picked us up, and we headed to Bray. We went to a fancy pub, and ate good food, and laughed the night away.
Good day.
One of the perks of being bought by Telefonica is definitely their international presence. Ian got pulled up into the machine, and so I headed out to London last night to do some product team jam sessions with him.
I landed, hopped into a car, and I was at the office “fresh” and ready to go.
I hopped into a few meetings with other folks across the org, and then got about an hour of organization and story telling feedback. Headed to the hotel with every intention of passing out… but… there was an Arsenal game at the Emirates which is just 2 miles up.
I desperately wanted to go, but a 4:30am wake up call, and a flight to Madrid tomorrow made my decision.
So Arsenal have won their game 3-0. And I’m heading to bed ๐
I’m off to London. I’ve totally missed posting this week because it’s been crazy with sickness, Wendy heading out of town, and the like. I’ll just post a few photos, and call it a blog post.
All photos, all the time ๐
Well, maybe a little intro. We headed up to Jenner, CA for Easter weekend, and we had an awesome time. No cell phone connection though. On the way back, we got cell coverage for about 100 yards in Bodega Bay where I got a text message saying that a candidate had accepted an offer to join the team.
Man that’s a huge win!
And now photos ๐
This blog post is 9รย days late. It all started on this date when I got sick, fell behind, and Iรขโฌโขve been playing catch up ever since. Some of these catch up blog posts are relevant to the day. Others are just random musings.
I just woke up (it’s 3pm) about an hour and a half ago.
Well, that’s not totally true. I got up, and tried to help with the kids. Micky took them to school, and then I passed out.
9pm to 6am last night.
9am to 1:30pm today.
Holy smokes do I feel better. Well I did until I opened my work email :-p