06.08.08
Eagan, MN - Day 2
Sad start again today. Woke up at 8:30, went back to sleep. Woke up at 10:30, went back to sleep. And I proceeded to do so for every half hour until my stomach finally decided enough was enough, nearly 24 hours without food was unacceptable. After randomly moving around, I finally got the will to get up and drive around. I know my way around most of Eagan that I care to explore. There are only a few vital roads. Still, it was tricky to wind my way into Brueger’s parking lot. In the process I did discover where the Eagan Transit Station is,which will probably come in handy at least once (even if I just get on to ride it around for the hell of it).
Brueger’s has better wireless. Not nearly as many people and its faster because there is no web filter. They are only open until five, so I expect this will be a short post. Still on my list of things to do are pay Verizon a visit, buy some decent shorts at Kohl’s, and hop on Panera’s wireless (or maybe the Best Westerns) to see if I can’t take advantage of the rest of AV weekend on World of Warcraft.
I spent much of last night programming, and it went well. However, I realized that without the web I was without any real good PHP reference (even though I brought two books on it) so I was, for quite a while, running into many strange errors that were simple to fix but hard for me to figure out. Luckily I’ve gotten it down. Sadly the read line functions don’t remove line endings by default, and I can’t seem to find any other function that will do it for me (it seems like trim should be able to do it, but I guess \r and \n aren’t considered whitespace?).
Hopefully tomorrow will go well and I’ll have some interesting things to talk about. It will be interesting to see what my first day at Lockheed Martin brings.