My Weekly Blog # 8

This past week has been pretty interesting. The highlight of the week was on Tuesday when we should of had class and the power was out by my place until 2:30PM. I only live about 8 blocks from NWTC Campus. It started out waking up at 7:50AM for class at 8:30AM and finding myself in a pretty dark house with it just raining buckets outside. My first fear was my sump pump which runs about every15 min. When I got up power was out for about 90 min already, so the pump would have run about 6 times. I went to the basement and my fears were confirmed with water about 6 feet out from the sump pump already.

Here goes my creativity kicked in high gear, I went to the garage and got a length of garden hose and kinda made a boom to corral the water. There is a floor drain about 8 feet from the sump pit and I positioned the boom to circle the drain and it worked pretty slick. The water did leak a little under the hose but the majority was channeled down the drain. This saved me one big mess. One problem solved.

With class being canceled due to the power outage we missed some important class time to start wrapping up assignments and duties for our verge project. Now we will just have to communicate a little differently this week. I already heard from Sandy, and Marty as they met at school and spent about 90 min in the cafeteria working on some issues. Way to Go Team Tigers. One thing that they added is a Doodle Board this is pretty cool as we can all go to this site and tweak our label design. I got all the info for the cost on getting a patent and it looks like between 9K and 12K with all the fees and attorney cost. This kinda surprised me as I thought it was always easy to get a patent. Just think if Thomas Edison had to do this today with his 1093 patents it would cost him over 13 million in just fees.

We have our assignments posted on our Wiki so everyone knows whats expected for next week as Marty will be soaking up the sun and golfing in AZ this week. Must be nice.So lets chat it up and be sure the work is being accomplished in a timely fashion. Feel free to contact me if any help is needed and I'll see what I can do to help. The six thinking hats seems like a cool way to brainstorm. Everyone wears the same hat until someone changes it and from what I understand it just flows from there depending on the color of your comment (hat). I hope everyone had a Great Easter and with only 3 weeks of school left time to put the hammer down. Hope to hear from all of you soon.