Arrived in Dallas a couple hours ago. ran into a friend from high school on his way to play at SXSW, which is pretty cool. he said he was playing for casey desmond and that it's fun, but he's always poor, and life as a musician is hard, etc... i explained that i was here for work, to play IT funtime with our traveling superintendents, and that i will not be playing any instruments, doing any live shows, or leaving the hotel in Dallas for 4 days....and quickly questioned myself what i was doing with my life. what mistake did i make...i did go to college for music in the end, so it's not like i didn't have direction. and yes, she was on the plane too. the flight over had it's usual drawbacks, complete with senior put-your-seat-back-as-far-as-you-can sitting in front of me. i get a kick whenever the plane pulls up to the gate after landing. there's three sets of sounds; 1) the rumble of seatbelt detachments, 2) the sounds of cellphones being turned on, and 3) when all those cellphones receive their text messages and voicemail alerts. and so here i'll be until Sunday. I will hopefully get some more work done on the remote backup utility executable, some documentation, and pump out a few heard worlds as well. at least my room has a view:

i also ended up eating at a taco bell, well, the pizza hut version of it anyway. enjoy the view from that on the left. they have the only vegetarian food i've seen so far. a personal pan cheese pizza. with bread sticks. that's the 3rd personal pan cheese pizza i've had all day. i feel fat. time to go to the pool.

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