If you read this post through Planet Debian, then you may already know this through "Johnathan"'s post on the subject: on the 29th of February this year, Tammy and I got married. Yes. Really. No, I didn't expect this to happen myself about five years ago, but here we are.

Tammy and I met four years ago at DebConf16 in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was a local organizer. If you were at dc16, you may remember the beautifully designed conference stationery, T-shirts, and bag; this was all her work. In addition, the opening and closing credits on the videos of that conference were designed by her.

As it happens, that's how we met. I've been a member of the Debconf video team since about 2010, when I first volunteered to handle a few cameras. In 2015, since someone had to do it, I installed Carl's veyepar on Debian's on-site servers, configured, and ran it. I've been in charge of the postprocssing infrastructure -- first using veyepar, later using my own SReview -- ever since. So when I went to the Debconf organizers in 2016 to ask for preroll and postroll templates for the videos, they pointed me to Tammy; and we haven't quite stopped talking since.

I can speak from experience now when saying that a long-distance relationship is difficult. My previous place of residence, Mechelen, is about 9600km away from Cape Town, and so just seeing Tammy required about a half month's worth of pay -- not something I always have to spare. But after a number of back-and-forth visits and a lot of paperwork, I have now been living in Cape Town for just over a year. Obviously, this has simplified things a lot.

The only thing left for me to do now is to train my brain to stop thinking there's something stuck on my left ring finger. It's really meant to be there, after all...