OLS 2005 - day 8
I do realize that this post is very delayed. Anyway, read it and enjoy it.
Ah, finally going home. Don’t take this the wrong way, I love OLS, and I hope to go next year, but I kind of missed my desktop. I woke up at 7:00, got ready and it was time to go to the Aldershot train station. David dropped me off at 8:40, and the train was supposed to come at 9:11. Of course it was late. I boarded the train at about 9:50 and off to New York I went. At the border, we got delayed by about an hour, but everything (as far as I know) went smoothly. We are approaching Amsterdam, NY as I write this, so it will be a while before I get home, and before you can even read this :-) but I think it is kind of cool. Few minutes ago, the train stopped in the middle of nowhere, and coincidentally, there was a freight train right next to us. I had a clear view of the end of train transmitter/device, and by the time I grabbed my camera, our train started moving. So all I got is a photo shot through slightly tinted, and very dirty window:
We just left Amsterdam, NY, and I heard a detector on one of the radios that a conductor had…24 axles, no defects - good.
Update:
It is now 01:11 UTC (July 26 2005) and we are nearing New York. In the past few hours, we got to Albany, NY where we switched engines - I got this crappy photo of the two engines near each other (shot though even dirtier window):
Other than that, not much happened; I spend most of the time coding Mercurial. It is starting to look really good. The features are just appearing one after another. The hgweb-redesign.patch is almost complete. Soon enough, I’ll submit a patch to the Mercurial mailing list, but I’ll submit it as a request for comment not a finalized thing.