The clock at the top of the screen says it's 8:26 and I'm sitting in the vending machine alcove on the first floor of the Digital Technology Center at the North Harris campus of the Lone Star College. I'll be here today for another four hours, most likely, and I'll probably be repeating this trip for the next 14 weeks as J-Mag takes her Business English class.
I am bored.
As far as Internet, we get "both kinds" here (HTTP and HTTPS) and so my shell sessions to my main server at the house and in the Chicago data center as well as IMAP and SMTP sessions to get and send mail just timeout with the bits lost without a trace. I can post to this blog. I can do programming or whatever, as long as I don't want to check anything in to revision control because that goes over SSH. I can play "Civilization: Call to Power" as long as it's a single-player game, or maybe even fly "X-Plane 10" (I've got the disk 1 ISO on the hard drive so I don't need my physical disk.) Maybe next time I'll set up a proxy to tunnel everything through HTTP. Maybe I'll just put up with it. How hard can it be?
At least I have a computer. I had the foresight to bring it and the power supply. The library opens at 9, and I can move to a quieter, if not more comfortable, space, then. I've got snacks, I've got soda and PowerAde and something to sit on.
But I'm bored.
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