2015.03.19 – Portland Commons Q&A Day

Today was interesting and good even though I got very little coding done. I got to the office early and it was still full of additional people so I sat out in the common area again. I struck up a conversation with Selena and got to talking about jobs. She was SO nice and sat with me and gave me a lot of good suggestions about various companies to look at and how to advocate for myself as far as trying to get a job with Mozilla. I’m ready to work somewhere full time now so am exploring every option. It’s daunting for sure.

I had a lunch date with my friend Vicky at Laughing Planet. The walk over there from the office was nice and it included the company of a few of Portland’s mounted patrol. We had delicious food and caught up on the trials and tribulations of life/work. It was really nice to spend time with her one-on-one but time flew and we both had meetings to get to.

I got back to the office in time for the Q&A session to begin. Dave Slater the Chief of Staff and two other people were in town to talk to the Portland people about any complaints or questions they had about Mozilla and/or the Portland office. It was really interesting to participate. For the most part everyone is really happy with the office and environment. A few people did request a new coffee grinder though 🙂

That pretty much took us to the end of the day. I worked a bit while I waited for Andrew to come to my office. We were going to walk up to Tea Chai Te and get some Northwest Earl Grey for me. It’s so good! While I was working Dietrich was at a table flashing a bunch of Firefox Flames. They are the new FirefoxOS Cell Phones. I told him I hadn’t seen one yet so he went in the back and got a new one and gave it to me to hack on. Nice! I’ll also be getting one from Lukas so I hope to help someone else learn how to hack on one as well.

The walk up to 23rd was so nice. People were out everywhere enjoying the early evening. We each got a drink and sat in the tea shop for a while just enjoying the moment before walking back down to the Max. While we walked we talked about the near future and about what we wanted to do/change.

Today I learned that the London office is “why we can’t have nice things!” I guess they’ve had some issues.