Winter driving

[jbailey]

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.