It's Salisbury Steak Day, Children!

I've spent the past two and a half days attending a 64-bit training event over at the Microsoft Porting Lab building. It's been pretty helpful, although it suffers the same problems as all hands-on labs sponsored by a hardware vendor, namely you go only as fast as the slowest person in the room and the bias is rather one-sided.

In any case, the people over here at Building 20 still get free lunches on a regular basis with all the training events that take place in a fairly small restricted-access building. Most people in the building are visiting vendors rather than Microsoft folks in any case. Honestly, I've skipped and gone home for lunch because once you've had a half-dozen Microsoft box lunches, you've had enough of them. Today, however, was a hot lunch of mashed potatoes and salisbury steak. I haven't had salisbury steak since college. It made for a very school-lunch/South Park moment. The main thing that this dining experience has pointed out to me is that (a) I'm a foodie and (b) what you might have considered awesome back when you were a broke student kinda sucks now that 'free' and 'hot' are no longer enough to make a meal enjoyable. On the other hand, 'nostalgic' on occasion isn't all that bad :>