Category: Milestones

Laid off!

Apple leadership made the decision to “wind-down” the Titan program. All of us on T172 were told in an all hands meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

Initially I had feelings of relief, some uncertainty, and excitement. Relief that the leadership finally made a decision and we had clear direction regarding the project’s future. Our project had been furiously working on short term deliverables while having no long term clear direction or vision for almost two years. While it wasn’t the decision I had really hoped for, at least it was a decision. Continue reading “Laid off!”

The signs of fall, Sunnyvale, CA

Every year the signals that fall is coming arrive in a few specific ways. One of the first occurred last night. Megan and I rode our bikes over to our favorite local sushi restaurant for dinner. We both finished work late so we didn’t leave the house until 7:15 or so. Along the way we stopped for a minute to admire an unusually red setting sun and then continued on to get dinner without thinking much more about the time of day. It was while locking up the bikes and walking inside that the signal came about. I realized I didn’t have my bike lights, and would need them by the time we finished eating.

Every spring, after emerging from a long season of bicycle commuting in darkness, the time comes when I roll into the driveway before its dark enough to really need all of my flashing lights. I still have them on board and clipped to my pack for most of the spring, although regular use and charging starts to fade away.

 

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31st Birthday Weekend, San Francisco, CA

February 28th came around and Megan planned a great weekend for us up in San Francisco. During our training for the Santa Cruz Half Marathon, I had identified a few ‘destination runs’ I wanted to travel to for our long runs with SF and the Golden Gate Bridge being one of them. Based on this, we made the plan.

    • Ride the train up to SF
    • Check into a fancy hotel, The Palace
    • Run for 10 miles, with the halfway point at the Northern edge of the bridge
    • Go to dinner at a nice restaurant
    • Stay at fancy hotel
    • Return to Sunnyvale

       

    We had a great weekend. The hotel was awesome, Continue reading “31st Birthday Weekend, San Francisco, CA”

    First Anniversary – Palacio Los Gatos – 10/10/2016

    Our first wedding anniversary. We made it a whole year.

    On our actual anniversary we were recovering from a long day of moving furniture and boxes. The 10th was Monday, and the previous weekend we spent in Colorado. We had flow to Denver on the Thursday before in order to attend Matt Olsen’s wedding in Estes Park. It was a great event and we got to see a few old friends we hadn’t see in a while.

     

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