I was up early again and ready to go. The weather report said there was freezing fog and it sure looked to be the case so I decided to take the MAX and not have Wayne drive in that. With our car issue yesterday I wasn’t going to push our luck. As I walked to the train I passed by our gardens. Everything alive was completely frosted over. It’s interesting though because the kale just loves the freezing weather.

I got downtown about 08:15 and even though UA is fairly close to Mozilla I take a different street to get there so I pass different stores. I found a bagel place that Andrew’s co-worker had mentioned liking several months ago and since I hadn’t had breakfast I stopped in to see what they had. Luckily all of their bagels are vegan and they even had a savory spread. I packed up my bagel and headed up to UA. I ended up getting there at about 08:30 even with my stop so figured I should be able to leave a bit later.

Nobody was really in yet so I grabbed my laptop and headed to the Hangar. I checked my UA email while I had my bagel and tea and then Mele came to invite me to the stand-up meeting. I took a seat in the conference room and Amanda arrived shortly afterward. We listened in on the meeting, not really understanding everything but enough anyway. After the meeting Mele got us working on installing Android Studio so we could create and run an application on an Android tablet. Wow, talk about yak shaving. It was a pain in the ass and I had to wait for a lot of stuff to download. While I waited I downloaded Eclipse which is another Android development IDE.

Mele wanted to take Amanda and me to lunch with some others from the CE team so we put aside our yaks and headed to The Parish. I hadn’t been there before so I wasn’t sure what they would have for vegans but Portland is great about that so I wasn’t too worried. They didn’t have many options but they did have a baby kale salad with roasted beets which was delicious. I also had some bread and balsamic vinegar to dip it in. Yum! But it was time to head back to our yaks all too soon.

I left Android Studio updating the SDK when I went to lunch but of course forgot to change the setting to prevent the hard drive from sleeping after a certain amount of time so it didn’t finish. Bleh! I started it again and switched over to Eclipse. It seemed pretty happy and did everything it should do but I really wanted to make the other one work so I went back to it once the SDK was updated. It was much happier but there weren’t very many tutorials for it. Most were in Eclipse. Mele came in about this time and said we should just skip the tutorials and install the UA sample app. Ok! Unfortunately this led to more yak shaving. Amanda and I struggled with more SDK issues until it was time to go home! That’s a lot of yaks in case you were wondering.

Wayne came to pick me up and had Roberto and Frankie with him! It was so nice to see them. I hadn’t had time the day before because of my busy day but it was dinner night so it was the perfect night for them to come over. We had spaghetti, garlic bread and salad, easy! Tonight we had Dale, Miri, Michael, Roberto, Frankie, Spencer, John, Alice, Jason, Taylor, Delaney and the five of us.

Today I learned that Android Studio is a pain in the ass.