AT Day 29 and 30

2014/4/29-30 Mile 467

Zero days! Two of them. Initially was only going to stay one night but the weather was looking really bad so I made the executive decision to stay out of it.

First day woke up late and went to a coffee shop for an expensive breakfast and then hung out talking with Fromage and Forrester for a few hours. Both really awesome, educated guys. Hope to hike with them some more.

Got my mail drop, hit up the outfitter for some gators and fuel, and bought some lunches for the trail. Dinner was at the local Mexican restaurant and after that we wandered looking for people congregating but found nothing.

Second day had breakfast at Dairy King which was much better. Had to move out of The Place because I hit my two night limit. Was planning to hike out but that got derailed by a side project.

I had been looking for an SMS service to check the weather and was unable to find anything that actually worked for me. So I decided to make one. Got a VPS for 5 bucks, a twilio account, and a developer account at weather underground. Spent most of the afternoon setting up the services until the coffee shop kicked me out as they closed.

Went to the Mexican restaurant because they had good WiFi and ssh'ed in on my phone to write a Python script using Flask to receive a text, look up the location, and reply with the forecast. Took a while to type it all in but it works! I'll share the code when I have a chance.

So it was late and I still had nowhere to stay so I started calling around. Everyone was full. Combined with the down pouring rain I was feeling pretty crappy but Woodchuck of Woodchuck Hostel called back and said I could stay in the garage. Done.

Gotta get moving early tomorrow. Feeling antsy but happy that I have a solution for my weather updates.