I hope that I don’t owe Dale Carnegie royalties or anything now.

So, now that I’ve discussed my day fitness-wise, we move on to the next portion of the day – meeting people.

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Today has been another busy day already, and it’s only 2 p.m. my time. After all the previous days’ efforts I let myself sleep in. I got up at 10 and after breakfast made my way to campus.

There is a reason that they hype the bus lines here in Gainesville. And that reason is that there is absolutely no parking at UF. You think it’s bad in Tuscaloosa? Oh, no sir. Not even close. Fall down on your knees and be grateful that you do not have to try to drive a car to the University of Florida.

Of course, now that I went and got my Gator 1 ID card, I won’t have to either. 🙂

Also today: a trip to the CISE department, where I got some information about fall schedules and e-mail accounts, the “Infirmary” (I’m not kidding; that’s what the building says. Am I at Fort Florida?), where I checked that my immunization records were ready to go (they are), and the “HUB”, where I went to the bookstore and got a Florida decal for my car. When in Rome…

All in all, there was a good bit of walking done, even having driven to campus. I’ve come to the determination that losing weight will not be difficult here. The walking combined with the sweltering heat and humidity will see to that. Good for me, I guess.

Guess who’s finally back!

And finally got an Internet connection again. Okay, I’m fudging a little bit. I did have my AT&T account still, but I wanted to make the first post in Florida special because it’s the first one from my Ethernet connection! Woo-hoo! I’ve finally reached the world of broadband!

It took a couple of days and a different network card to get that set up, but it’s worth it just to see ESPN.com load up in less than a second. 🙂

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My car has air conditioning again. Huzzah!

My car is in the shop today to get its air conditioner repaired and the brake pads and rotors replaced. It’s supposed to be done by five this afternoon; digits are crossing.

I’ve started the packing process today. All of my “winter” clothes that I have here in Birmingham have been stowed away. I’ve kept everything else out so far, mainly because it should all fit nicely into the two suitcases, clothes basket, and wicker basket I still have here. I haven’t gone through all of the papers I’ve accumulated since I’ve been here, but at least my junk piles have been consolidated. 🙂

I realize that the previous entry held absolutely no interest for what I would consider my site’s “core” audience: family and friends. After making the bookmarklets, though, I reasoned that other web designers might be interested in them as well, and it was simplest to just add an entry in the blog. My thanks to Mr. Zeldman for spreading the word; the result was the most traffic in one day in my site’s history. But then, one would expect that from a site that measures daily hits in the tens of thousands. 🙂

That being said, life does indeed go on. I have one week left in Birmingham before the big move, and I’m getting excited about it. I have a decent amount of packing to do here, but that’s something that can wait for next week.