July 15, 2010: Back in Texas, Speaking at SpiceCorps

It is good to be home.  I am really glad that I had some time to be home yesterday evening and to just relax.

I am dramatically beyond on SGL so I am going to post stubs as they make it much, much easier to catch up.  Sorry for the mess but at this point it is for posterity and not for the current readers.

After work this evening we went over to the Microsoft offices in Las Colinas where we are holding SpiceCorps DFW this quarter.  It was really hot on the way there.  Brian, Ben, Nicki and I all car pooled together to get over there.  We were dying by the time that we got there even though it was just around the corner as the Mazda has horribly inadequate air conditioning and cannot cool itself at all.

We brought the new Kodak 1080p video camera with us to record the talk this evening which we think will be really cool.  There haven’t been any real recordings of the SpiceCorps groups so this will be really neat to start making some, we think.

July 14, 2010: Second Day of Driving

The driving continues today.  Last night Brian and I decided to give up on the quest to drive all through the night and stayed in Forrest City, Arkansas.  Our hotel room, we discovered this morning, had a wonderful view of a big pile of dirt.  How lovely.

We ate breakfast at the hotel and were on the road pretty much right away at around nine.  That give me roughly three hours of sleep last night.  Not much but enough to refresh me.

We still have a lot of driving to do today and it is exceptionally hot out and the sun is blazing.  We got onto the road and Brian drove most of the day.  I was on my laptop working as long as I could.

We were dying all day from the heat.  The car just kept getting hotter and hotter.  It was awful.  The air conditioning in the car was not able to keep up in the least with the hot air and the sunlight that just never ended.  We were driving into the sun all day too so we were sitting in the sunlight the whole day.

The BlackBerry that I had tethered to my laptop got so hot that it discharged its battery even while plugged in!  That wasn’t good.  So I lost connectivity and couldn’t work continuously.  What a pain.

The drive seemed to take forever even though we only had some of Arkansas and all of Texas to cross.  We stopped and grabbed Jack in the Box in eastern Texas.

It was around five when we pulled into Las Colinas and got into the apartment.  We were exhausted and did not bother to unload the car.

Tonight was pasta night at La Cima but we did not have the energy to go over there.  We relaxed a little but were off to bed on the early side.