The more WordCamps I visit, the better of an experience each becomes! WordCamp Montréal was no exception and I had great conversations, met local WordPress developers, fellow Automatticians, and even merged an attendee’s pull request for Underscores while volunteering at the Happiness Bar!
It’s really the people and the interactions that makes WordCamps outstanding to me. Everyone was super-open and approachable, and the organizers did a great job putting it together. I really wish I would have made better travel arrangements so I could have stayed a little longer, but that won’t happen to me again! 🙂 Continue reading
WordCamp Montréal
I went through the archives of my team’s blog at Automattic and found this treasure, courtesy of Sheri Bigelow:
The pictures for this gif were taken on Kauai during our devision meetup there. Kauai is known for its wild chicken, so naturally one of the meetup achievements was to “Photobomb a feral chicken”. Achievement unlocked!
Me, chasing a rooster
Get Golf Ready
In ongoing effort to get myself out of my appartement (I work from home, so it truly is my castle), I decided to learn how to golf. It’s an outside activity, I can call it sport (without any actual physical effort), it’s mostly in beautifully landscaped surroundings, and I might even get to meet people outside my work or family.
I found that the Get Golf Ready program is a perfect fit for that. It’s designed to teach adults how to play golf with beginner golf lessons. For an affordable $99, you get five lessons that get you started with the game: putting, chipping, full shots, drive, a.s.o. Exactly what I was looking for!
Today I went for my first lesson:
Everyone knows you play 18 holes of golf, but today I learned that two strokes out of every par (a predetermined number of strokes required to complete a hole) are considered to be putting strokes, on average half of all strokes in a round of golf! So putting is super important, which is why we started with that. We’re a very diverse group of five student, who were let by a great golf instructor/teacher. He’s really enthusiastic and made the lesson today really fun! He took a lot of time and went well beyond the scheduled 90mins of instructions, touching all kinds of different subjects, from putting (of course), to golf rules, to etiquette, and even a short intro to the golf carts they use there.
Two Trees from the Olivas Links Golf Course.
I had a great time today and a lot of fun. I can not wait to learn more, and might just go back and practice some putting on my own now!
Konstantin Obenland 