jbailey | Winter driving

So I went driving in the snow for the first time today. I've learned some very important things:

At -20°C, windshield wiper fluids freezes on the the windshield
Windsheild wipers do nothing when caked with ice
People stare at you funny when you're in a t-shirt cracking ice off the window
When the trunk is covered with ice, openning the trunk will cause ice to fall all over your new mips machine
That grinding noise when I hit the breaks is the ice on the breakpads
When you can't see the lines on the road, don't worry about following them

I also learned that snow slows things down *alot*. I had rented 6 hours of audio book (Douglas Adams reading HHGG), and ran out of it on the drive.

All told a good day. Despite having been approved to enroll in the Calculus 2 course, there was no room, so I'm in a religious studies course where I get to study evil instead. My textbooks are on backorder, though, so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to start the rest of my classes.

I had planned to meet Simon there, and did, so that was nice. I certainly felt like a first year being led around and shown how the bookstore worked and all that. Me a firstyear at 28... Sheesh. Much to my surprise, I met James there. It's really comforting to know people at the school I'm going to, even if it's just through distance ed.

On the hacking front, I removed some cruft from the Debian glibc sparc v9 build, and nothing else.