My internship ended yesterday at 11:15, and it finished at an awesome time. I just finished my project, and the code ended up being about 2000 lines. The really challenging part was that I was given about 1000 lines of C style code to start with, and I had to expand that. I can handle C style code, but it is just that he used a lot of functions that I am not used it. And he never used the string class, which I use in almost everyone of my programs. But never the less, I finished.
It was just in time because exactly three hours after I finished work, the Dallas Cowboys came to town. Granted, the Cowboys are not exactly high on my list of favorite teams (they rank well about the Oakland Raiders though), but I love love love the NFL, so I am not going to pass on the opportunity to see an NFL team, when they are flying into the airfield that is a tenth of a mile from the building I work in. I was standing on the tarmac waiting for the plane, when I heard one of the reporters that was getting ready to cover the story yell to his cameraman that T.O. was here. Sure enough, T.O. had gotten in separately and was walking across the tarmac towards the plane that had just landed. I was not sure whether we were supposed to approach the plane or not, but everyone started running out there and huddling around T.O. to interview him. I stayed to the side to see if I could recognize any of the players as they got off the plane, but the NFL has their player's faces covered during the game, and give them numbers. If those guys had numbers on, I would have known if there were any of the big names (Bledsoe: 11; Williams: 31; Jones: 21; Witten: 82), but I did not have the numbers to cheat with. I walked over to T.O. and there was just enough of a gap between the camera people that I got within five feet of him. Now, say what you want about his character and everything, but when you are five feet away from one of the biggest names in the game, you have to respect that! It was awesome.
After that, they had an autograph signing session for everyone on base. Since it was during work hours, there were really not that many people there (there were a lot, but a lot less than there otherwise would have been if it were open to the public). I had a few trading cards and got Jason Witten, Roy Williams, Julius Jones, Drew Henson, and Terrell Owens to sign the cards. Yeah... that T.O. card could be worth some serious money. But I will hang on to it for now. Doesn't get much more exciting than that.
I have uploaded some of the pictures that I took. Unfortunately, no one wanted to or could go to the autograph session with me, so I don't have many pictures of me with the players. I almost had a great one with the cheerleaders, but the guy didn't press the button to take the picture. Oh well. Check them out!
Last night a few of the long term interns (3 years) and I got together to have dinner. Kind of a going away dinner for me. We ended up deciding to play poker with a $5 buy in, and I won! Well... kinda. I played myself and ended up losing, but a few minutes after I was out, a guy who was starting to get short stacked got a call from his girl friend and asked me to play for him. Well, I was in for three hands and finished the game. All I needed was two straights, and an amazing bluff and I won the game. I wish I understood what I did differently, but I can't say that I changed anything. So I made off with half of the $40 pot. Not bad...
Tomorrow I will go to the Cowboy's training camp, and then to a BBQ with the other interns. Then, I am off to San Diego for a few days, and then Las Vegas to hook up with Kacy! This will be fun... :)
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