June was a good month for health-related experiments. The community-supported agriculture box meant that we had lots of vegetables in the house. I joined several long bike rides, getting plenty of exercise. Sun + warm weather = garden growing at full speed, although my lettuce has bolted. At work, I dived back into Drupal development. I’ve been working from home almost all the time because I really like the standing-desk set up I’ve got at home – our kitchen counter, which is conveniently close to water and snacks. Good things all around.

July is shaping up to be a great month too. Summer’s heat means more ice cream and less baking. I’m fascinated by the way my social interactions are shifting: I’m growing more and more comfortable talking about grown-up things (what J-‘s learning this summer; what W- and I are working on), and I get together less frequently with my old circles. Work is chugging along nicely. It’s a good month to practise managing the pipeline of opportunities, too, so that I can move from one engagement to another without many hiccups. Onward and upward!

Blog posts in June:

Geek/work

• VMWare, Samba, Eclipse, and XDebug: Mixing a virtual Linux environment with a Microsoft Windows development environment
• Negative optimization
• Thinking about our development practices
• Drush, Simpletest, and continuous integration for Drupal using Jenkins (previously Hudson)
• Sketchnotes from Democamp Toronto 29, June 2011
• Managing configuration changes in Drupal
• Thinking about speaking topics
• Switching back to Linux as my development host
• Drupal notes from helping a client improve her development environment
• Context-switching and a four-project day

Life

• Writing your way past “What have I been doing with my life?”
• Learning from the speeches of grade seven students
• Meaning and acknowledgement
• Portal 2 and teachable moments in argument
• Portal 2

Health/garden/hobbies

• Hungry hungry compost and other garden updates
• It’s Bike Month in Toronto!
• Bike ride in the rain
• Made a stuff sack for J-
• Getting things ready for the next week: cooking and gardening
• This is what my blog looks like on paper
• Cook Or Die Season II: Community-Supported Agriculture
• Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens
• Make-ahead meals
• Getting the hang of community-supported agriculture
• Gardening notes: Cut-and-come-again lettuce
• An abundance of cilantro, now freezing in cubes; strawberries and peas
• (500) days of salad
• Strawberry rhubarb baking

Planning/review

• Plans for summer: Relationships, work, gardening, biking, drawing and photography, making, and finances
• Monthly reviews: April and May 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending June 3, 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending June 11, 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending June 18, 2011
• Weekly review: Week ending June 25, 2011
• Decision review: calendars, development, standing desks, toe shoes, Kindle, bike, CSA, Autodesk Sketchbook, blogging
• Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk)
• Personal projects
• Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values