Author: rainleander
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Goodbye, Grandma
We will miss Dorothy so much and it’s hard to believe she is gone. We will always cherish memories of her hand drawn Angels that were on every Christmas card, her extensive doll and art collections from around the world (each with its own story), and her famous potato salad and cranberry jello sauce at…
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Big Breath In. Big Breath Out. Repeat.
TL;DR my mother’s mother is on home hospice. My daughter is named after her. So I’m grabbing girl twin and running to the States to introduce them and say goodbye. It’s intense.
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So I Ran Over to Brno And Then
I died. But then I got better. Almost.
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No Headaches, Yet, But
In a surreal twist of something, there was a rather large tour from Japan on the ass o’clock in the morning flight from AMS to PRG and most of them spoke not a single word of English, but, somehow, one of them had been assigned to the emergency row right behind me, so when the…
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Some Things Bear Repeating
This video came up on my facebook memory feed the other day and I watched it and realized YES YES YES I need to rewatch this about once a year forever and EVER. So take a minute (or four) to watch the whole thing cause #ZOMG #YESSSS And, really, there’s not a lot I can…
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Passing The Torch Without Dropping The Ball
And I was like, “That’s cool,” and my boss says it’s cool, everyone said it was cool, except that my uterus said that’s Not Cool because we’re going to have twins now.
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I Have An Office!
When we found out we were pregnant with twins, among the plethora of stressors was that we’d need to remodel our house extensively to make it work once said twins were old enough to want their own spaces. This is YEARS in the future, but it was still right there with all the other OMG…
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And I’m Still A Bit Sick, If I’m Honest
So I’m totally back publishing this post to Tuesday, cause, DAMNIT, I was sick. And not just me – the entire family – all five of us – has a cold that’s just enough that on Monday after I went to the gym, I was literally falling down dizzy. YAY!
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Step Zero: Schedule Your First Event
Whether you’re curious about the open source world or hacked on the kernel back in the 90s, we’d love to see you at PatchMakers.
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AMSterDAMN It’s COLD
I’m down in Amsterdam today to visit the DevRel Salon AMS meetup group that’s Parisian Salon meets DevRel action meets AMSTERDAM. I don’t know what that looks like either, so I’m super stoked to find out tonight. And it really is That Cold. I mean, #DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Also, I’m the special guest at tonight’s meetup. No…
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It Really Is Everything
The beginning of this year was ROUGH. TL;DR POOP But it reminded me that I long ago figured out that the key to survive in this totally whack world is perception. Is the glass half empty or half full? One of the final speeches I will present to earn the Advanced Communicator Silver award is…
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Why, Hello, 2019
I blinked awake at three this morning. After going to bed at ten ish. And let’s just say that the early morning of 2019 were not the most ideal way to start the new year. And also let’s just say that this post is about poop. You’ve been warned. As I said, I blinked awake…