Here it is spring break, I should've gone to Arizona and stayed with my youngest son who is going to MMI in Phoenix. Nice weather, sunshine, no snow, and did I mention nice weather. Well back to reality here in WI. This past week has been a blur and I believe this semester will be over before you know it. This break will allow me to do a lot of my research on our team subject (Google) and our verge project. The Google part of this is just about finished but as a team we seem to have a few differences of opinion on the verge subject matter. I put a posting up earlier today saying we should vote on what we want to do and now I'm kinda worried about what I'll find for answers. But consensus rules and everyone will have to accept it and give the team effort it's best shot. What scares me is a lot of my team members like my idea, except for our administrator who has ideas of his own. Time will tell all to soon.
We didn't have class this past week so our time working together as a team has been limited. We still have to get all our data together and put a PowerPoint presentation in place for class this week. The Wiki we have for our team is coming along pretty good and I believe google has an application where we can all simultaneously work on a PowerPoint without having to be together in one place. With all my jobs and studies that would help a bunch.
At one of my jobs people donate used computers, and its my job to clean up old remaining files before we re-sell them. This past week someone (local company) dropped of 4 complete systems, as I was checking them out I was floored with the type of data left on them. Bank accounts, names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and lots of other personal info. So that was my dilemma what do I do with this. The choice I made was to call this business and tell them what I had. They were extremely thankful that someone with a high set of standards found this information. They have offered me some compensation to clean this up for them as their IT guy was supposed to have already done this. It took me almost 3 days to get all 4 computers cleaned up and ready for re-sale but I did it. I burned all the old data to a large flash drive and I'm going to drop it off for them to do as they wish. I just feel better about it as I know if it was any of my information on there I would want someone to do the same.
We have another birthday coming up in my house for my oldest son who is an April Fool. Yes 4/01/88 and nobody believed me when I called them to announce his birth. This day allows you to bring up some creative ways to surprise him and each year it gets tougher. At least I have a couple weeks to plan something.
I mentioned my verge idea to my ex-brother-in-law and he thought it was a great idea. We discussed it over a few malt beverages. He said if we don't use it he wants to pursue it on his own and I told him fair enough as long as I'm cut in for 50%. This brought a good laugh to all. I hope we can make some progress on our verge, and all work towards one goal. That is with every one's collaboration and energies focused on whatever we choose to give it their best effort. I will let you know what happens..............
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