Programming, espresso, and grumbling.

I finished my programming paper! I’ve sent a copy to Jon to review it and should hopefully mail it off to my professor tonight. After the semester’s over, I plan on releasing my programs for that class on here, probably under the GPL as I’ve done in the past. I’ll stick that paper up here, too, since maybe some of y’all care about my ideal programming language. Contrariwise, maybe some of y’all care what I did on my summer vacation (I worked), or whether I like long walks on the beach and heartfelt poetry (meh).

Jon and I went to an urgent treatment center earlier for his sinus infection and the pink eye he has developed as a result of infection. Turns out he doesn’t have a sinus infection, despite all his congestion and coughing, but rather has an ear infection. I told him his head’s all messed up since he has the pink eye on his right side and the ear infection on his left. I sat in the waiting room and read Stranger in a Strange Land the whole time while trying to ignore Are You Smarter than a Fifth-Grader and other daytime television crap. Also, every time I hear some Republican gripe about socialized medicine, one of the main concerns I hear is that it’ll take forever to see a doctor. They always reference the shortage of doctors and abundance of lines in Canada; having never been to Canada, I can’t verify this. If any of y’all are from Canada, let me know how it goes when you need to visit a doctor, will you? Anyway, obviously these conservatives have never been to American doctors’ offices, because it took forever today for Jon to get in and get back out. We sat in the waiting room for maybe an hour to an hour and a half, then Jon went back and sat some more, waiting on his doctor to get around to him. All in all, he said he talked to a nurse and a doctor maybe ten minutes, got a prescription for some antibiotics, and we were out the door. He essentially paid $90 and we waited for three hours in order to get permission to pay $4 at Rite Aid for some drugs.