Three talks in to UserConf and I am super impressed. One of the bet­ter con­fer­ences I’ve been to in a long while.

One month in and I’m back up to my reg­u­lar dis­tance run­ning in my bare­foot shoes. Took a while to get com­fort­able but I can feel a huge dif­fer­ence in my legs.

Having a mass spec­trom­e­try con­fer­ence share a floor with the Automattic com­pany meetup rooms pro­vides for some pretty funny jux­ta­po­si­tions. They’re in suits. We’re in t-shirts.

I finally picked up a new pair of run­ning shoes and am giv­ing a bare­foot pair a shot. Went with the Merrell Trail Glove. First run this after­noon in them was great. Related pro­tip, don’t go 14 months between run­ning shoe purchases.

First full day in Amsterdam and it is absolutely pour­ing rain. We went to see the Anne Frank house this morn­ing and came back drenched. Of course it’s 80 degrees and sunny in Portland.

Original plan this morn­ing was to hike Table Mountain with Daniel and Leah. The weather pre­vented that, though, so the backup plan was rasp­berry pan­cakes with vanilla ice cream. Yum.