Today i spent entirely on-campus. I don’t think i was planning to do that, but i thoroughly enjoyed it. it started off at 9am with me visiting a couple of more computer science instructors for a while, then talking to a fellow college buddy, who is on faculty now. Then i decided to check out the ginormous Crown Centre. I thought i was going to go to chapel, but ended up it was the Senior Class meeting. Oh well, i just was amazed of the size. Afterwards, i recognize the audio guy and talked to him for a little bit, and we actually went to school during the same time and he remember during a church service that i was actually involved in. After we got done talking, he gave me the VIP tour of the A/V equipment room as well as behind the revolving stage. Yes, i did say a revolving stage that takes 8 minutes to do a 180-degree turn. during the tour, i was able to see the last few seconds of the turn. Very Impressive!

Next, i decided to eat lunch, and boy did that bring back memories of the food. Moving on, after that i finally caught up with another staff member who i went to college with, and he now works as an admissions advisor for the college. Conversation a little short because he needed to go someplace, and i was going to go on a campus tour. Tour lasted 90 minutes with a 10-min dvd and a tour of several bldgs on campus, which included the ginormous crown centre and the sports center addition. After the tour, i met up with the admissions guy and we talked for a bit getting caught up and all, then i up to the 4th floor of the library to see the 1-room school house and also some very old manuscripts.

Next i went back to the sports center and took pictures of the water park, because when we were on tour, the park was open to women-only at the time. So, i waited until it was the men’s time to go check it out.

After that was done, it was getting close to supper, so i decided to go to the other main food facility on campus to eat supper. While i was eating alone, a very nice family (who i met on the campus tour) ask if i wanted to join them. I said sure. Had a very nice conversation with a family from Ohio that their son was looking at becoming a student. Since i was wearing my alumni badge all day, they ask me questions, and i tried to answer them the best i could, however 10 yrs some things have change. I helped him as much as i could giving him a little insight of what to expect if he decides to come here, some choices he will have to make within the first week, and some advice on some things like white-glove cleaning.

Yes, i know this is long, but I’m almost done. Finally it was going to the Wednesday evening church service. When the service begin, and we started singing, i almost got the chills because it has been ten yrs since I’ve heard five to six thousand people sing. It was incredible to hear all those people sing!! WOW…….plus when the 160-voice choir did their special, that was also something awesome to hear!

Now tomorrow i hope to enjoy the thanksgiving festivities and maybe go to the beach. 🙂

Day Two: started off with a little rain, but by the time i got to pcola around 1pm, it was sunny with some clouds. Since i couldn’t check in until 3pm, i decided to go to campus to see if i could track down friends who are on staff in IT and csc instructors. Got to see their IT dept and their server room (which btw is key-card access). Won’t bore some of you with details about their IT dept. after that i stopped by the csc faculty area to see if any instrcutors were in their office and there was one and we talked for a good half hour and and couple of more instructors came in , but they had to get to class. So, i will see if i can chat with them later.

After doing some stuff around town, i came back to campus to see if i could get a hold of a student that was from my church, but couldn’t reach them on the phone. got my alumni badge and visitor id so i cane gain access to the sports center and ran into somebody i went to college, knew who he was, but couldn’t remember his name. 🙁 he actually came up to me and we talked a little, but he was in the middle of bowling, so it was short.

Came back to the room to eat my dessert from chili’s and found out that i was not given a fork to eat my cookie brownie had ice cream and hot fudge on the side. so, i will wait until tomorrow when i can get me a fork to indulge on such greatness!

Now on to Garmin:

Max speed = 84.0

Fuel report:
Distance = 904.9 miles
Time traveled = 16:16 including driving around city
Cost of fuel used: $99.14
Daily mpg = 29.9
Avg mpg for 2-day trip= 26.3
Fuel used: 35.2 gal
Carbon footprint = 682.3 lbs

Meals:
Lunch at subway in Pcola
Supper at chilis in Pcola

Day One: with the car fueled and read to go, i embarked on a journey that will re-connect me with old friends and teachers, as well as maybe meet some new friends. To help me with my journey, i loaded my ipod with enough songs that i could go the entire week and not listen to the same song twice, but i tend to listen to favorites or songs to drive to. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Plus i love my new ipod fm transmitter!

Info from Garmin:
Fuel report:
Distance = 619.9 miles
Time = 9:38
Cost of fuel used = 67.44
Avg mpg = 26.1
Fuel used = 23.7 gal
Carbon footprint = 460.2 lbs

Meals:
Lunch at culvers in Cape
Supper at shooneys in Jackson