It's the last day for me here in Alpharetta, Georgia.

The class has gone fairly well, I think. I've received positive comments from the students and the education staff at the site.

I'll be leaving today around 2:30 p.m. or so in order to return my rental car and be to the airport in time to catch my 5:40 p.m. flight back to Salt Lake City (via Los Angeles... ugh).

I ran into a problem with my laptop computer last night. I was installing Fedora on the laptop last night and the laptop keyboard froze up. It wouldn't accept any input. So, I rebooted the computer and started the installation over again. That time it got to disc 3 before it froze up. That was frustrating because it was only about 2 minutes from being complete.

I took the keyboard out from the laptop and checked the connections inside. Everything looked fine. I tried to boot the computer into Windows so I could just check my mail. The boot loader was corrupted. I booted off the Fedora CD in rescue mode and reinstalled the boot loader, but there was no boot configuration file. So, while grub got written to the disk, there was no boot configuration.

And my backspace key and my right arrow key would not work.

So, I gave up. My laptop has had a good, long life. It's time to move on.