I’ve been trying to get out of the house more on weekends to do homework, but I’m starting to find that that ambient noise at coffee shops drives me crazy. Either I can hear individual conversations too easily (yesterday I was sitting near two people who appeared to be on a first date), or the refrigerator/background music/coffee grinder is too loud.

Also, the right side of the palm rest on my laptop has reached new levels of flex-y squeakiness. I think I am going to have to try to add some padding to the bottom of it to make it stop. I can’t believe how much Thinkpad build quality has degraded.