The Snow is not your friend....

Yes, believe it or not, it's a new blog posting, sitting here late at night, listening to the quiet, somewhat dissonant strains of Hundred by The Fray. mmmm. So we got a treat right here in west Lafayette just the other day... a snowstorm that blew right through and left us no snow whatsoever. But while it lasted it was nasty, and it definately taught me that, pleasureable as snow may be to play in, here in the wind tunnel of America, snow is not your friend. Not only does it seem to blow in every direction, but it blows like 20 m.p.h. in every direction. It's like radiation on a much larger scale, little particles tearing the skin off of your face. I'm serious!!! It's sweet relief when you finally get in a building.
I also had my first real illness here at purdue just this past weekend. Yup, Friday I began to get a tension in my throat, it felt like I was having trouble swallowing, and it was a bit sore also. Saturday, it just got worse, and I actually started taking medicine for it, and told myself if it didn't get better by Monday, I would go to the health clinic. Nothing else felt bad just my throat, but by sunday, that didn't matter... the pain in my throat alone was bad enough to make me feel miserable. I suffered through and went to the doctor Monday morning. They gave me a strep test, which came back negative today.... but they put me on antibiotics yesterday, and I'm to continue taking them until they're gone... and today I feel much much much better.
So here's where I put my little rant about me being so upset that crazy people would put FLORIDA in the BCS Championship bowl over Michigan... WHO DOES THAT?... that's like handing Ohio State the trophy. But I guess that about sums it up. I'm excited about Purdue going to a bowl in Orlando, which means I get a free Florida vacation this year!! Woohoo!
So the robot is due tomorrow, and it's actually ready!!! At least I hope it is... unfortunately, there is some of the programming that we can't test, since we need to transmit values to our robot to simulate what will happen tomorrow, and we have no way to do that. But our team is very happy with the way the thing is running. It's actually very suprising how much control we can have over this robot, especially since the environment used to program it is graphically based, more so than any other environment I have ever used. That's supposed to make it easy.... HAH!
I get to come home for Christmas break next thursday....