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St. Louis Techies Project
The St. Louis Techies Project aims to highlight people in tech in the St. Louis area. This year, for International Women's Day, the global Women Techmakers group has the theme of "telling our story." We want to tell your story!
This is my story, also available
2016 in review
I drove a race car around a Nascar circuit in March for my 41st birthday, reaching 106mph! It was an awesome birthday gift from my husband.
I was promoted to 1st degree black belt, on Friday 13th May, by Ben Pratt of Tracy's Karate West. Started this journey
Books to re-read
I was that child in school who read the encyclopaedia, cover to cover, Aardvark to Zulu. I got six books a week from Ipswich Library every Saturday while my parents did the grocery shopping, I read my way through the children's library and branched out to adult science
I drove a race car!
On Saturday 19th, I went out to Gateway Motorsports Park in Illinois, and I drove a V8 600hp 4-speed Nascar vehicle on the track. My top speed was 106mph, and I had a blast! I have a new respect for power steering, because the race car didn't have
Denver, Colorado
Notebooks
I work in a software company, but I couldn't do my work without paper notebooks. I'm running several at once:
Five Year Diary
A gift from Paul six years ago and again last Christmas, this book from Levenger gives me five lines a day, for five
Now - October 26th 2015
I used to do snapshot posts a while ago of what was on my mind and what I was working on. I read Shawn Blanc's Now page, which refers to Derek Sivers Now page, so I'll put mine up periodically. Link in the sidebar or these
Nonfiction reading
Starting November 2013, I've been reading more books from the business, management, leadership, and creativity sections of the book store. By a wild coincidence, I took on more leadership-ish things at work around then. These are ones I've finished so far:
Jurgen Appelo "Management 3.
Travel lessons
Airplane travel
Some day, you and your checked luggage will be parted. Maybe for a day, maybe forever. Have enough in carry-on that you can survive a day while you get replacements for the essentials.
Medications go in carry-on bags.
If you fly more than twice a year, do the