Today was a good day. Started the day at 6:00, walked to bart in the pouring rain. It was nice though, we needed some rain for a change.
Got to the luggage checkin with 1 MINUTE to spare before they stop checking bags. And I arrived at my gate with 4 minutes before they closed the gate. Talk about cutting it close.
Spent the plane ride playing Super Mario Odyssey. I probably spent the better half of 4 hours getting 4-5 stars on the “Far Side of the Moon” level. It’s really hard!
When I landed I took the tram into town. It was pretty far and probably took me 2-3 hours between landing and getting to my air bnb.
Everyone here seems nice. The cab driver gave me tons of recommendations on where to go; it was funny though, because he was in a very tiny car, and was a pretty big guy; the opposite of what you’d expect someone to drive in Texas!
Finally got to my Air BnB(after trying the wrong door a couple of times), and checked in. Then went to a local coffee shop on the recommendation of my host.
They made this *AWESOME* chi latte(see picture). He like ground up the chai himself or some shit. It was pretty intricate. I felt bad I chugged it down in 5 seconds.
I spent the rest of the evening (4-5 hours) “working”. My test from last night passed which was good, but I wasn’t able to verify my integration tests were working correctly when tested against our staging environment. I had a bunch of issues with SSL that I still haven’t solved. I’m really disliking this issue, as it just keeps dragging on and on, and is bringing me down mentally. I’m hoping I can solve the problem tomorrow. I don’t want this issue looming over me the whole trip. Maybe I’ll even do some work during the vacation if it means getting my change checked in…
After work, I headed to a local BBQ called “LockHart BBQ”. Got some of my first BBQ for this trip(yay!) and some mac and cheese(see pic). Had a beer. Then decided I wasn’t done.
I then went to a grilled cheese place next, and had some grilled cheese on white bread. They gave it to me all packaged in a bag and everything, with plastic utensils and a styropfoam cup. even though I was sitting at the bar — I assumed that Texas just always had things “to go” and wasted tons of paper/plastic/killing the environment. I was internally pretty upset. But it turns out that he thought my food was tog-, and it was a simple mistake. I’m glad Texas isn’t that horrible to the environment.
After that I basically headed home. It was only 8:30pm(local time), but I was pretty tired. I got home and chatted with some of the other guests — one lady was staying in the Air BNB for a month with her Kids. She was looking for a house to buy, and this was temporary housing because her lease expired. She was a single Mom of 3 and was a teacher. She was very happy to talk to another adult(as was I!) and we chatted a bit about her school, traveling, and relationships(oh Kevin). Later, the host Crystal came by and chatted with us — and made us cookies! ? ? ❤️. Oh and the schoolteacher(I forgot her name, something similar to Crystal) also gave me a beer that was funnel flavored. People are so nice!
Anyways thats it. I’ll probably wake up at 8 am today(6am West coast time) and try and get this work done.