9:54 AM (central)

So I got up pretty early here, it was still dark and dark for a long time. I figured I'd go and get breakfast out of the way, but when it came down to it, It was, apprently, a bit too early. So I wandered around Solvang in the ever brightening light and by the time that I got out to the main street/highway through town, and got back to The Meadows (the resturant right next to my hotel) there was a gaggle of old people filling up the resturant. I ended up meeting Skip in there and had some breakfast. The pastery (kinda like a kolach) was so so, the filling was pretty good, but the pastery wasn't as flakey as I have come to expect from bakerys. The Banana muffin was actually really good. So I was good for breakfast. I had oatmeal with raisins. And it didn't seem to salted, so it was probably good for me. And that would've been great, if I hadn't had the eggs, bacon and sausage too :)

And now we wait for Marta to come get us and take us to Medseek.

12:42 PM (Central)

So we're in class, and we're learning about CFCs, which I've been using for the last 8 months or so, it's not dreadfully interesting. I have found out a few things about how sitemaker does thier CFCs and the way they do things and how SiteMaker Identifies things. So I guess that's ok. It is really taxing my attention span though.

I'm looking forward to lunch, but it's still a ways out.

7:11 AM (central)

So lunch was good. It was at a coffee shop just down the Street. I can't remember the name. Medseek picked up the tab. In fact the only things that I've paid for, so far, was Taco Bell on the first day and breakfast. I had a Panini bread sandwhich, that had chicken, tomato and spices on it. It was a little greasy, but still good. I enjoyed it. It came with a side of potato salad, and I was kinda worried, that because I was out in California, that they wouldn't know how to make a good potato salad, but it was ok, nothing to jump up and down about thought.

We then headed back to class.

So in the afternoon, I decided that the way Medseek wants us to write modules to work in this new system, is a way to tie us further into medseek. Since the code that you, a programmer, writes, isn't one that actually makes forms and etc, but it calls other code (that belongs to Medseek) to create the information.

It's still, I suppose, better, load wise. Since you call their code over and over, that's the stuff that stays compiled.

I dunno though.

After a little struggling, since I don't much work with arrays, I got both tasks given to us done. This pointed out a little flaw with how things works. Since the way they set things up only allows inner joins, rather then outer joins. Since I love outer joins, this is quite problematic.

At around 4, we called it a day. I got a ride back to the hotel with one of the other people.

So after a nice morning the weather had turned rainy. It was still nice as far as I was concerned, but apprently it was the first time it had rained in months.

After a couple of attempts to call Shannon, she finally called me back, and we talked for a little bit before I had to head off to the first acutal part of the Developers conference which was the reception and dinner at AJ Spurs (which was featured in the movie, Sideways). Again I got a ride from one of the other people here, and we got there and the booze started flowing. Over the night I had a double scotch (Glenfiddich) and then had a few giant beers (locally brewed, Fat tire and Firestone?). I spent most of my evening talking with this guy from Jersey. It was interesting. We talked about some of the problems that we had. He's from much smaller shop, but in there they do must of everything and it sounds like they don't outsource much at all.

We sat down for dinner, and it started off with a bean soup that they suggested we combine with the salsa and tequila beans. It was ok, not great, but ok (yes, I know, soup is something I'm not supposed to have). We had a couple of choices for dinner, and I ended up having an 8 oz top sirloin. The salad they served was...well...kinda sparse i guess. Very simple. Then the main course came. The Top Sirloin was quite good, done to a medium rare, so it was very juicy and tasty. They had pan fried potatoes that were good, but they had texas style toast with a spice or two that I didn't recognize, but that was just nummy. I had 3 slices.

I talked with a few people, including the CEO and founder of the company, over dinner. But as time went on, I was growing tired of being social and wanted to get back to the hotel so I could call Shannon. So when she, the CEO was leaving and offered to give a ride home, I jumped right on it.

After talking with Shannon and watching a little TV I started to doze off. Eventually I woke up long enough to put my mask on and go to bed.