Will I lose my dignity? Will you still care?

Well, today was my last day in San Antonio for a bit. Matt and I worked hard on getting the merge kernel working on the smarttop, although we’re currently still getting errors, we’ve got more debugging info being printed, which helps out quite a bit to figure out what is going on.

R&B brought me a Freescale shirt which is really nice. I like wearing polo shirts, they are just as comfortable as tshirts, and look just a little bit better, even when wearing jeans. Apparently the meeting with Freescale when really well with them showing off the 3G Smartbook.

Mauricio and Denise gave me a ride to the airport. Said goodbye to them as well as Matt who accompanied us to the airport. I gave him the groceries from my room so they weren’t wasted. Wish I had brought a bigger bag with me though, everything was very tightly packed in my bag.

While waiting to get a drink, one of the San Antonio police in the airport asked me questions about my Efika MX smartbook since I was holding it. I let him play with it for a little bit and he really liked it. That was very cool. Seeing people’s reactions to the machine always makes me smile. He commented that he liked how light it was. I’m happy with the battery life myself. While I turned it off before most flights, I unplugged from an outlet at 4:30pm. I would turn it on and use it during the flight, then just close the lid while I was walking through the airports. At around 8:30pm, I started compiling xorg-server and all of its dependencies. I figured okay, this will really stress the system and cause it to draw a lot of power. I didn’t even get a low battery notification (the led on the power button starts blinking orange) until around 1:15am and I finally plugged it in at 1:20am. Mostly because I wanted to be sure that the xorg+friends compile didn’t get cut off. Love it.

So, I am home, and it is somewhat nice, but it was cold when I got home. It is currently around 35F out (somewhere around 2c) and I’m really missing San Antonio. I want it to be warmer.

One thing that I really notice now that I’m home… my computers are freaking loud. I mean okay sure they are “powerful” desktops with “modern graphics cards” but eesh. I miss the quiet Genesi office. Nice having 10 machines going and hearing the carbonation in soda as the only noise.

I really want to post some other news, but it won’t be until at least Monday or Tuesday before I do. Some of my posts over the past week have been hinting at things, and some of my blog posts feel incomplete because I’m not just throwing it all out there.

I do want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone on the Genesi team for making me feel welcome as well as inviting me down to San Antonio. I had a really great time, and look forward to seeing them again in the future!