Sometimes googlemaps, not so helpful

Today Nicole and her mom and sister headed to Ikea to do some shopping. I tagged along, since there was a Starbucks in the vicinity, I was hoping to get some work done.

Talk about being thwarted left right and sideways.

We get to Ikea for some $.99 breakfast action. i load up google maps for mobile to get my bearings. I plug in the address for Ikea, then the address for Starbucks. A third of a mile, great, I'll walk. i like to walk, and .3 miles is a bit silly to drive.

Oy.

My first and biggest mistake was in not seeing that Google maps mobile had plotted the position of Ikea and starbucks as being on the opposite side of Potomac Mills.

So I head off in the direction we thought I should. After about a half mile (remember it was .3 from Ikea) I turn around, thinking we've misjudged. Back to Ikea, then over in the opposite direction. I walk about another half mile and see one of the streets that google maps had indicated. Huh. ok must be .3 miles from this street. So I keep walking.

I walk past the next street, where the starbucks should be. huh, nothing. I keep walking. Still nothing. I walk up another street out of the "loop" of the mills. I walk and walk, getting lost almost, head back into the mills loop. Still no starbucks. I finally call....

"Oh, we're inside the Mills, next to the food court." Say wha?

By now, I've walked around this damn mall of malls out and around, and over and under, and the freakin' starbucks is inside!?

So i enter the mills. I walk, and walk, and walk and FINALLY find a starbucks.

I sit down, with my Venti Mocha Frap and start working.... Get the latest code, Errors. errors upon errors. I can't compile.

I spend 30 minutes fixing them... then the app no worky.... GRRR

That was my day... I've got code I need to write by friday, and still no working environment... Maybe tomorrow will be better.