Stoic.

Night in Chicago.

SPS TechJam 2018

Today is our annual #TeamSPS TechJam event bringing the global SPS technology team together to learn, share, and have fun. The agenda is packed with over two dozen presenters. Automation, GraphQL, Containers, Architecture and more on the agenda! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

A huge thank you to the #TeamSPS TechJam event organizers! ๐Ÿ‘ Your passion and drive make us a better team!

Bridget Kromhout getting SPS TechJam started off! Computers are easy, people are hard! ๐Ÿ‘

Great #TeamSPS speakers at SPS TechJam! Thank you for sharing! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

Today we have people from United States ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (multiple cities), Ukraine ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, India ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ and Bulgaria ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌ with #TeamSPS and partners here in Minneapolis. Global! ๐ŸŒ

Evolutionary architecture, Kotlin, and GraphQL. Great 2nd half of the morning at SPS TechJam! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

Afternoon sessions for SPS TechJam. ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

Women in Tech sharing with #TeamSPS the great work they are leading! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

I left my iPad at my seat while stepping away and #TeamSPS security was on the job with a good reminder! ๐Ÿ”

โ€œAt SPS it might be Kube or Kubb!โ€ Kelly Hamm at SumoLogic knows #TeamSPS โ€” and thanks for the Kubb set!

Another great #TeamSPS TechJam! Wonderful topics, great speakers and an amazing team! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

Not sure about the Paul DeCoursey sticker in the lower right. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

Time for some fun socializing for #TeamSPS at TechJam! ๐Ÿป

Hanging out with the amazing Bridget Kromhout at our SPS TechJam speaker dinner! Looking forward to a day of learning and exploration tomorrow with Bridget kicking it off! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ†

Happy Motherโ€™s Day 2018 to my awesome mom!

Enjoying a delicious Westvleteren 12 โ€” voted best beer in the world! Wow! ๐Ÿบ

Surly Hopshifter IPA. Awesome! ๐Ÿบ

Mothers Day 2018!

Learned that you cannot make whipped cream in an ice cream maker bowl. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I like the augmented memory effect I get when adding a link to Pinboard and it tells me I previously saved the link โ€“ multiple years ago. ๐Ÿค“

MN United v SJ Quakes

Ready for MN United game! โšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

MN United game time! โšฝ๏ธ

Goal for the Yellow Team to give San Jose early lead! ๐Ÿ˜กโšฝ๏ธ

Gorgeous goal from Ramirez to bring Minnesota United to 1-1 with SJ. โšฝ๏ธ Yellow team is horrible.

SJ Quakes - remember to send a nice Thank You to the Yellow Team for the win. Next time United! โšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ก

Saturday morning 8 and under baseball! โšพ๏ธ

๐Ÿ˜ฒ When you put email from one account into a different email accounts Sanebox deferral folder. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Learned the hard way that if you are using ZURB Foundation for Email, you really need to use their CSS Inlining tool. Did that, and it was like magic. MailChimp’s inliner didn’t get it right.

Tammy and I saw Tully tonight. Good movie. ๐ŸŽฌ

Had a fabulous lunch today with the Minneapolis contingent of our #TeamSPS Comms Team to celebrate numerous wins over recent months! Great job! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ†

Ready for a group book discussion on Radical Candor by Kim Scott with our #TeamSPS technology leadership team!

I think if you averaged all bike rides in Minneapolis today, you would get my ride around the three main lakes.

Ships coming and going in Duluth.

May 5th and snow still hanging on! Lake Superior shoreline at Canal Park, Duluth.