Typo 3 UG Quebec Meeting.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
While Nicole went back home with her parents, I picked up the car at the garage. We were waiting for a call from her doctor to schedule surgery. I stopped at Simon’s place again, configuring his network. He and his family have been a big comfort in this difficult time. No call from the doctor. That evening was the scheduled Typo 3 User Group meeting at Université Laval.
It was pouring rain outside. Instead of parking in the underground garage I parked far away, in the shopping center facing the hospital, and walked 15 minutes under the cold rain, no umbrella, thinking of our master plan that has been drammatically changed. Many thoughts crossed my mind. First and foremost that I should take care of Nicole right now, that the emergency is not over yet.
In the university’s bathroom I quickly wiped off as much of the water I could and got ready for the meeting, as if nothing happened. But my head was not really there, Only toward the end, when I got a chance to ask the question for which I came. I wanted to integrate multi-media content by XSS injection, like I am already doing in WordPress and in MediaWiki. A young guy, Jean-Philippe, took the challenge and in a few minutes he showed one way of doing it. Amazing how he was mastering Typo3’s complexity.
At the end of the meeting I discussed a bit with Jean-François, his boss. Potential for business. But my mind was not very clear at this stage. I shared with him what was keeping me busy.
That night, when I got home to Nicole’s parents, she told me that surgery was scheduled for Friday. Three more days to wait…