In the beginning…

So here it is; that awkward first post where you don’t know whether to blatantly state “this is my first post” or just play it off as you’ve been blogging for years. Here it goes…

Today was quite the long day to start out this whole summer experience with. It all began somewhere around 4:00AM. I decided to stay with a friend in KC for the free ride to the airport. Everything went very smoothly. Fifty minutes of flying and I arrived in Chicago. I had to wander around that airport for about an hour and a half looking for some coffee and just generally pass time. The second flight took about an hour and a half to make it to DC where the sun was shining and it was genuinely a beautiful day. I had to hop a cab over to the WPNI offices while trying to carry a backpack, a large suitcase, and a full duffel bag. The cab ride was a bit interesting too. I got to see my driver get into a fist-shaking cursing contest with another cab driver. It ended with the other guy speeding off into the distance swerving between cars.

I arrived at the office where I began meeting everyone I’ll be working with all summer. Let me tell you, it’s definitely a dot com style office. It’s all full of glass and stainless steel with a lot of younger folks working there. Maybe I can manage to snag some photos once I get settled in and a lot more comfortable. Chris and I walked around the streets a little bit shortly after I got there looking for a place to eat. We settled on this little deli/pizza shop that wasn’t half bad. It was called something along the lines of “Jerry’s”…something. We headed back to the office where I met more people and dove right into getting some code setup. I spent the rest of the day (from 2 to 6) tinkering with my development environment on my laptop trying to get ready to dive into some bigger projects.

I’d have to say that my first day in DC was pretty awesome! The city is really nice from what I can tell (and I’m really not the city type) and the office is full of really friendly and entertaining people. I want to get this blog tied into a Flickr account so I can upload photos that I take from either my good camera or just snapshots from my camera phone. Maybe that will be coming within the next week or so. Until then…

Cheers!

Sean Stoops

PS – Categories will be setup very soon so I can organize my posts.