Whee…. lots of stuff happened today.

First of all, I got my cell phone. I don’t know my number yet (I will get a number assigned when I activate it), so suggestions as to whether I should get a Pittsburgh or a Phoenix area code are happily considered (I’m leaning toward a 412 number right now).

Second, I got the login and registration portion of my final project for webapps (as written about in last night’s post) working and debugged. It uses email authentication to activate accounts as not to fill the database with spammed accounts, and it also has challenges to verify human registration. Whee. I can start writing the actual content for it now.

Third, and best of all, I just spent the past 5 hours touring a coal power plant courtesy of Ben’s associate Kevin. There will soon be pictures up in photos (yes, first update in a while, I know). It was by far one of the most awesome things ever (and I have a piece of coal schlag from it too).
Here’s a teaser image until I get the rest up (which I will do before I go to bed)… This is actually looking into the main reactor where coal is burned to produce the steam. We got to look in (safe due to the difference in pressure, causing air to rush in rather than out, even though it’s over 4000 degrees inside) and see the coal streams and everything.

Only downside is that my eyes now are watery and I’m coughing a bit from all the coal dust I absorbed throughout the tour. Whee. So worth it though.

Fourth was that today was the Dean’s List dinner. I got my Klaus pin and had lots of yummy food. Not much to report about that, of course… whee.