The BookStop Coffee Shop

Maryville has one coffee shop that I know of that is not on campus. I decided to pay it a visit today to see what it was like. The Book Stop Coffee Shop delivered the coffee and managed to do it well. Situated on main street between 2nd and 3rd, the Book Stop is right on my way to work! They have a decent but simple setup with good coffee and excellent service! As you walk in, you seem to get both the smell of coffee (yum!) and books. The majority of the shop is set up for books and antiques, but there are plenty of tables set up at the front for patrons. If you're in town visiting, go ahead and stop by. You won't be disappointed!

Wireless Rant

This is a rant. It may not make sense, or even use real words all the time. You have been warned.

/rant

Northwest Missouri State University is known as the "electronic campus." Unfortunately, they seem to be the "broken electronics campus" more often than not. This year, Northwest decided to (finally) start increasing the number of wireless access points. Unfortunately, they never work. For this entire semester, it has been nearly impossible to connect with the wireless access points reliably. An access point may work great one day, but be absolutely borked the next. And it seems like they all go down at the same time. In the union, they provide both a secured and unsecured connection. You might think that you would be able to get on one if the other is not working, but you would be wrong. Any time one is down, the other is down too. And it's not just that you can't see the networks. That would be too obvious. The networks are visible but they just don't respond. It is like they're mocking you saying, "ha ha! I've got the internet here but you can't have it! Ha ha, I'm mocking you!"

*sigh* That's all I've got.

/end rant

Classes again

The inevitable rush of time has forced more work upon me, and less free time results. In other words, classes have started again. This semester will consist of 18cr-hrs with as much work (as in paid work) as I can squeeze in between 8 and 5. Thankfully though, I do not have any night classes, so hopefully this semester will be less hectic than last.