Originally Posted by misskaz

Yesterday I attended the second day of my Ruby programming class, and it was awful. I'm not stupid, but the guy was clearly not very good at teaching programming and just went way too fast through the material. That was really ****ing demoralizing. But then I decided hey, I know a bunch of people that program, including a dude that does Ruby and is always after me to come to these "Code and Coffee" meetups at a downtown coffee shop on Tuesday mornings. (At 7am. Ugh.)

So this morning I get up at 5:30 am, and pack up my giant MW bag with all my work clothes, makeup, etc.; my bike tools and a u-lock; my laptop, charger, and a 650-page Ruby book. It was ****ing heavy as hell. 45 minutes later I pull up to the coffee shop, get the u-lock out of my bag, and grab my keys to unlock it...

And I had the wrong ****ing lock (we have several laying around our basement). I didn't have the key to the one I brought. The hilarious/stupid/frustrating part is I've done this before (jimmytango has witnessed it) so I even color coded all the locks and keys with colored electrical tape. But that doesn't do much good if you don't actually check to see you've grabbed the right color.

So I lugged a ridiculously heavy backpack all the way downtown and got up an hour early, for nothing. And now I have to try to catch myself up on this Ruby class without any help. Sigh.