Land of 10,000 lakes

I'm in the "Land of 10,000 lakes" this week on a 'special assignment' and it is has been quite the interesting week so far. Tuesday started with a diverted flight and ended with dinner during a nasty storm and a loss of electrical power.  As my flight neared the airport, a line of storms arose and the plane did not have enough fuel to hold a pattern, so we were diverted north to Duluth (saw some beautiful foliage on the approach, btw) and ended up on the ground there for over two hours, so I had some time to make some new friends :-).   Oh, and no GPRS service from T-Mobile there, just voice (GSM).  I also need to remember to pack a jacket this time of year; the weather seems to have changed a bit from what was predicted when I packed my bag Monday night.

At the end of the day Tuesday, my co-worker DaveG took me to a really cool place for dinner - Chino Latino.  What a great place!  I really liked this place and it had a great atmosphere as well. I will definitely look this place up again if I am back in the area. While we were waiting on dessert, the power went out, which made things interesting. Unforunately, Dave couldn't get his fried ice cream, but I did get my chocolate flan-dango thing (awesome!), which I shared.

Wednesday was a long but productive day and I got a majority of my goals accomplished (woohoo!).  I found that if I don't wait for VMWare (where I'm running VS2005 RC) to fully disconnect the USB connection for the device before I pull the cable, it is *not* happy (I got the BSOD on my Toshiba M3 twice this way).

I'm working with HTC Apache devices and I must say - very nifty (I'm looking to pick up an HTC Wizard for myself given that I'm on T-Mobile). I'll have some more technical blog entries later this week (or weekend) about some issues I've encountered.  I'm on a really tight schedule this week, so TMM will likely be suspended as well until the weekend.

Oh yeah.. the whole "stoplights on Interstate on-ramps" thing is...interesting.

-Nino