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#28daysoftshirts – Day 10 Back from the mountains

Today is a two-fer, since I wore a shirt in the morning and then changed in the afternoon.

Shirt 1 – this is one of my newest shirts. I like it because it’s soft and the colors are nice and the fit is nice. But on the other hand, this shirt doesn’t say anything about me not obvious by looking at me. It’s a Women’s ERG shirt. I’m pretty sure the fact I’m a woman isn’t a surprise. I like my tshirts to carry a little more conversational water.

Color: Grey
Fabric: Soft
Text: Google

Shirt 2 – is one of my favorites. I love the color and the soft fabric. I bought this shirt up near Longmire when I was prepping to go backpacking with my son. I try to not use quotes out of context, so with this John Muir quote I also started reading a book of his and discovered that John Muir is the prophet of my heart and his writings are profoundly meaningful to me. His autobiography makes it plain what he suffered to find his place in the world, but his writings are full of unbounded joy – switching in a sentence between scientific analysis to theological poetry.

“Nevertheless, these fleeting sky mountains are as substantial and significant as the more lasting upheavals of granite beneath them. Both alike are built up and die, and in God’s calendar difference of duration is nothing.” John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92): My First Summer in the Sierra

I was reading Muir up in the quiet and frozen New Hampshire woods, and trying to see what he would see in the ice. So this shirt is in honor of those faroff mountain voices that never quite stop calling me.

Color: Cranberry
Fabric: Soft
Text: The Mountains are Calling – Mt. Rainier WA
Attributes: Fitted

#28daysoftshirts Day 9 Camp Wilmot

Today I’m up in frigid New Hampshire with my family, sitting next to a cast iron wood burning furnace after a snow shoeing journey. I’m at my children’s summer home, Camp Wilmot.

Fortunately I have the right shirt for it! I got this shirt on my 40th when I ran the 5k up here. I love the iconography and color. And the camp!

Color: Green

Fabric: Stiff

Front text: Camp Wilmot Fall 5k

#28daysoftshirts – Day 8 Back home

I finally made it home at about 2:30 am last night, and really needed to be into work and capable of thinking for meetings today. There’s only one possible solution to that problem. It starts with “c” and it ends with “e” and it is approx. 80% of my blood stream.

This is one of my all time favorite shirts. I love everything about it. I love the colors. I love the theme. I love the fuzzy slippers the zombie-dude is wearing. This one will definitely get worn to death, not discarded.

Color: Gray
Fabric: Soft
Front Text: “The Waking Dead”

#28daysoftshirts – Day 7, more work shirts

Today’s shirt comes from Onduo, which is a project I’ve spent a lot of time on and poured my heart into. I’ve also learned a LOT about type 2 diabetes in the process! I actually love the sentiment and reality of the text. I find it very affirming.

This shirt is actually a women’s cut. Not very many of my shirts are – most of them are unisex (which really means men’s). It’s definitely a less boxy look!

Color: Weird blue
Fabric: Soft
Front Text: Onduo logo, “We got you. You got this.”
Side arm text: Onduo
Attributes: women’s cut

#28daysoftshirts – day 6 more work shirts

My second day of the offsite, a second company tshirt. I have probably 3 more than I could wear today. I particularly like this tshirt because it’s soft and cozy. I couldn’t get a picture, but there’s some text on the arm. I also figured I’d show you my new vest, which has the same logo (in black). I have it on good authority that these vests are the cutting edge of high tech swag.

Color: Grey
Fabric: Very Soft
Front Text: V logo
Side arm text: Verily

#28daysoftshirt day 5 – work offsite

Yesterday I was traveling. Today I’m in cold California for three days of meetings. Most of the time meetings you fly for imply that your T-shirt wearing needs to take a break. But no! In Silicon Valley, a company tshirt is as good as a suit! (Probably better, actually.)

It’s cold here today (there was mixed snow and rain on the drive in yesterday) so I’m currently in no fewer than three layers of company branded clothing, with a fourth available.
Color: Black
Fabric: Soft
Front Text: Verily

#28daysoftshirts – Day 4 Going on a Journey

I’m headed out to San Francisco for a business trip tonight. I have a few shirts I tend to wear in certain circumstances, and I like to wear this one when I’m journeying. It does get a few raised eyebrows from folks who are unfamiliar with the term “XP”.

Why does the chicken cross the road?

Color: Black
Fabric: Stiff
Front Text: Why does the chicken cross the road? Because that was the quest and it needed the XP.
Circa 2015

#28daysoftshirts – Day 3 Latin on Superbowl Sunday

“It is better to know useless things than to know nothing at all.” – Seneca

My parents had these shirts made for our family about ten years ago, on the occasion when my little brother graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in Classics. He’d offered to do the graduation address in traditional Latin (they declined). I was smug about the fact he’d found a more useless degree than mine (Medieval Studies & English double major) until he went to seminary and it turned out to be useful. Jerk.

I thought I still had a Red Sox Championship t-shirt somewhere in my collection (vintage 2013), but it appears to either have been entirely lost in the bottom of my drawer, or purged in the move. I was surprised to discover I did not have a single appropriate shirt to wear in order to watch the New England Patriots play in the Super Bowl tonight. The closest I could get were a pair of shirts that are running focused. But instead I decided to wear the shirt that was least Super Bowly. Well, kind of – depending on whether you consider football knowledge to be a useless thing.

Color: Blue
Fabric: Stiff
Front Text: SATIUS ES SUPERVACUA SCIRE QUAM NIHIL. -Seneca
Circa 2007

#28DaysofTshirts – Day 2 “No Comment”

This is one of my oldest geek t-shirts. My husband goes to Gencon in Indianapolis every year, and has for the last 15 or so years. That represents 15 weeks in August that I’ve been home alone with the kids. In recompense, I demand dice and geeky tshirts. This was one of the first he brought back for me, at a time when I was still writing code every day.

I’m lucky that this particular syntax has aged well. I’ve used the following comment styles – let’s see if you can identify them all!

/*This should never happen*/
//I have no idea what this variable does, but if I try to remove it the whole thing breaks

<!– This may be a comment, but you can totally read it in the finished version –>
<!— I usually don’t publicly admit that this was my primary language —>

Color: Black
Fabric: Stiff
Front Text: /*No Comment*/

28 days of t-shirts

As part of my great attic shift, I went through all my clothes and moved them from one set of drawers to a new (smaller) set of drawers. One entire drawer is astonishingly full of nothing other than t-shirts with text on them. I like t-shirts quite a lot, especially funny ones. I have a personal schedule of wearing funny t-shirts every Friday, and often pack relevant t-shirts for trips. (Eg. a mountain t-shirt for a trip to the mountains.)

I curated my t-shirt set down to the ones I really liked, and was thinking about all the stories behind them. I have stories behind most things in my life (as you, beloved reader, are likely well aware). And I thought that it would be fun for the month of February to wear a different shirt every day, take a picture and share the picture and brief story with you!

So with no further ado – here’s today’s shirt:

Color: Red
Fabric: Soft
Attribute: Long
Front Text: Google
Back Text: I make things

I got this t-shirt for participating in a Maker Fair at Google. Most people there brought electronics or robots (there was an amazing one-man-band). I brought jams and did a tasting, which was rather popular. I had a fun time talking about jam and foraging and got some good tips from my colleagues. And all the presenters got t-shirts.

I particularly like the softness of the fabric on this shirt, and the length. I chose to wear it today because there’s a call for people to wear red for women’s heart health. I wouldn’t usually go out of my way for something like this (I doubt effectiveness), but it was a way for me to overcome the paralysis of deciding *which* shirt to wear first