Traveling
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A Trip to Athens for WordCamp Europe
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One of the perks of my job is that I get to travel to the flagship WordCamps we sponsor. Last year in Porto, even as I was lying in my hotel room with COVID, missing the second day of WCEU 2022, wondering if it had been a mistake to agree to a business trip, when…
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Porto COVID Isolation: Day 6
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Look. The most important thing you need to know about today is this: Which means I can wrap up isolation and actually leave the apartment. Which I did, for a short while: It was everything I dreamed it could be.
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Porto COVID Isolation, Days 3-5
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Once I settled in and had things like WiFi, food, and cutlery sorted, the last few days have passed pretty quietly. I’ve primarily been cooking my meals, partly to reduce exposure and partly because every attempt at ordering something becomes a fun puzzle to solve where the prize is “you don’t go hungry!” and that…
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COVID Isolation Diary, Days 0-2
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After a successful first day in the Nexcess booth for WordCamp Europe, the team had gathered at Belos Aires for dinner and conversation. I was exhausted, which I chalked up to the full day of having my booth face on and the multiple days of pre-parties and networking that had been filling my schedule since…
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Welcome to Happy Valley
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I wrote the original version of this upon visiting State College, PA for the PSU MacAdmins conference in 2018. After the 2019 conference, my husband performed a dramatic reading of it actually at the Berkey Creamery, and I’ve started to expand it. The Creamery is indeed excellent, but having grown up in Pennsylvania, I’m already…
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Hidden spaces, public oasis
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We returned today from a trip to Australia, where we spent 6 days in Sydney and a weekend in Melbourne. Something that struck me again and again during the course of the trip is how intentionally these cities make use of hard-to-use space. We visited a literal alley into which a street food market had…
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A weekend in Monterey
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While on the West Coast visiting family, we took a vacation-within-vacation and went to Monterey, one of our very favorite places.