Since I was terribly over-ambitious with what I wanted to cover in my session at CampDevOps. Oof.

Disclaimer: I dislike “devops” as a term in general. The tools and practices that are associated with “devops” however (puppet, chef, continuous deployment, automation of ops, etc) I am a very big fan of.

I’ve mentioned in the past how absolutely in love with Sonic.net I am. They’re by far the best ISP I’ve ever encountered and treat their users, especially technical ones, very well.

In less than seven days I will be standing behind a podium, giving a talk about Gerrit and Jenkins that is coming as a result of almost 2 years of integrating Gerrit into two separate companies, and almost 4 years of Jenkins. The fact that I’m speaking at the same time as Sacha Labourey (CEO of CloudBees) is just extra gravy on top of it all.

This past Saturday I had the (mis-)fortune of being signed up for the 2011 Cinderella Trail Run. EC (my wife) had signed up for the 10k race at the beginning of the summer to give her running a good goalpost to shoot for, and I agreed to run as well in order to help motivate her.

Our fancy new apartment, the one with the new oven, has two full-sized bed rooms and to full size bathrooms. We have one bathroom we shower and brush our teeth in, and one bathroom adjacent to the “office.” The second bathroom really just allows me a place to take a leak during late-night hack sessions in the “office,” without waking EC.