Last night I had messaged Kronda suggesting we co-work since I’m settled and able to do that. She said she was going to meet her sister at Glyph around 13:00 and we should meet there. Wayne had to take Jordan to class so I figured I’d just go work from the Mozilla space until it was time to head to Glyph. I packed a lunch and some snacks and off we went.
It was a beautiful morning in Portland. The fog was just creeping over the houses on the hill west of downtown. Traffic was very light so we had no trouble at all getting there. We dropped Jordan off at school and then I had Wayne drop me at our bank where I’d just walk to Mozilla.
I got there and it was SO quiet! Katt was on a conference call so I sat at the kitchen counter and worked while I had some tea. When she was done she showed me the fantastic room that was set up for us Mozilla interns. Wow, it’s so nice and comfortable! After a bit I moved in there and worked.
I was reading through the setup instructions in the Air Mozilla README and noticed some instructions I thought might need to be removed. I asked Peter about it and he agreed they should go so asked me to rewrite them and submit a pull request. In doing so I found out that the folder I thought I wasn’t supposed to delete the other day was actually supposed to go away. Huh…I thought my stuff didn’t work after I did that and replacing it fixed everything but ok. I deleted it and everything still worked. I have NO idea what happened or what is happening. Yeah it’s one of those days. Anyway, I made a new branch and updated the README, submitted a pull request and for some reason it had some prior commits. I thought I branched off of master. Maybe I made those commits on master? I dunno. More confusion. I messaged Peter about it but he must have been having a busy day so I didn’t hear from him.
Around one Kronda messaged to say she was at Glyph but that her sister was leaving soon so she wasn’t staying long. I suggested she come up to Mozilla if she wanted to. She said she’d come up in a while so I just kept working. Once she got there we said our greetings and both got back to work. We talked a bit here and there but she had this day set aside to get stuff done so we mostly worked.
Wayne and Jordan grabbed me at about 16:30 and we headed home. It was dinner night and we were having fajitas! Wayne and Alice cooked everything while I conveniently stayed out of the way. Tonight we had the six of us, Alice, Jason, Glenn, Clint, John, Roberto, Frankie, Dale, Miri, baby Michael, Lauren and Sean.
Today I learned about Jackie Ormes. She was the first African American Woman Cartoonist. Her story, sadly but unsurprisingly, is barely known. I asked my friend, the cartoonist, if he had ever heard of Jackie Ormes. He said he didn’t believe so and asked me who he/she was. It says a lot when a cartoonist who knows a LOT about cartoonists has never heard of her. I hope he reads about her now.