I'm at Beaches again, meeting a plane. I was here a few days ago, meeting Lindsey's from Florida. Now I'm meeting Steve's. Other near and dear are flying today. I had Patrick and Spencer over. Patrick brought a locally famous fresh hops beer, Sticky Hands, and I supplied fried chicken.
Mostly I've been blitzing for work, given the seasonal sale and all. The PSF is wondering why we make people log in at the web site (python.org). Other serious language web sites aren't so encumbered. I think it was a case of "we might need it someday". Open governance is messy, but more democratic than you might think, especially for a benevolent dictatorship.
Speaking of ministerial matters, the next Edu-Summit (Pycon Education Summit) is fast approaching. Given Pycon is coming to Portland in 2016, I'm not sure my bid to attend will get the serious attention it deserves. I don't actually have much insight into home office deliberations, given I'm a telecommuter.
I am monitoring Tara on Facebook, just back in Indy from Nicaragua, with Sadie. Her away team was studying coffee crop issues, biological in nature. The team was computer science oriented, however they also needed someone with serious skills around lab equipment. They had some expensive gear which Tara was helping to order when here over Thanksgiving break. I remember printing a manual.
Lindsey's Florida visit went about as expected. She's moving towards "third culture" status slowly but surely, a status I've held for awhile now. Her sangha in Portland is strong and supportive. Lower48 nuclear families tend to be launch pads for such alien spawn (as in "funny looking ETs"), as seen in American Dad.
Speaking of my multi-cultural upbringing, I was fortunate to attend a Thirsters session on Bhutan the other night. I'll make a slide show of the slides, plus some from today. That was Thursday night, just before meeting Lindsey's plane. Tonight is Saturday, two days later.
Seattle is scoring well against some other NFL team (Cowboys) on Fox. It's 31 to 17 with 2:25 left in the 4th. OSU's Ducks creamed Florida State the other day. You can read all about it if you go Google.
