What a week it has been! This one will definately be remembered for a while. It is probably the closest I have ever came to being truly about to have a real comeapart.
We ordered 4 new computers for work, one of them being for our Executive Director, our main boss. Last Monday, after I had put all the programs and settings on it for her, put all of her documents, emails, and email addresses on it. We figured out that we hated the setup. She previously had a 15.4 in laptop and a replicator. We bought a 17 in laptop and a "dynadock". It was a BIG step backwards and I was just sick over the results. Cords everywhere, the dock would not let the laptop screen black out while you were using the monitor and the laptop didn't have a secure port for the monitor, so if you plugged into it, which had to be plugged in on the side, you were constantly accidentally unplugging your monitor. I had a second computer ready to go with all the programs and settings, just not the personal information. The problem was, I had used both computers, they were what I had ordered and the total of all the computers and the dynadocks was well over $5,000. Yesterday, our system provider agreed to take all four of them back and sell us what I wanted in the first place. I know nobody in the building was blaming me--except me. I slept so hard last night it isn't even funny. Of course, it was the first night this week I had slept at all. I am still thanking God for his hand in this. I was not wanting to have to eat two computer systems that nobody liked or wanted.
In the meantime, Andrew's Aunt Ina Lou passed away in Cape Girardeau. We didn't go, she was the only member of the family left in Cape and has had Alzheimer's for several years. This was my mother-in-law's sister and after she passed away, my father-in-law was still in charge of her care. He flew out from Texas to take care of the final arrangements. Robert had actually went to Cape with Bob this summer to check on her, he was the last one in our house to see her. She had a hard life and I know it had been painful on both Bob and Linda watching her in such a state. I am sure Bob feels like she is at peace now.
The bright note of the week: the kid is moving from Baritone to Tuba. He is excited. He loves learning new things. He started with Trumpet, then Baritone and now Tuba. He is trying to talk Mrs. A into teaching him how to play Trombone next year just so he can say he knows how to play every brass instrument.
He is also getting ready for the pops concert- November 12th and 13th. Last night was the last evening band practice of the year and Saturday we travel to Oblong for the last competition.
I believe the highlight of this week has been Tuesday evening. Newton Elementary and Jasper County Jr. High put on a talent show. Wow!! I know I have been an emotional wreck this week but seeing those kids made me want to cry. In a world, where there is so much bad, we are blessed with so much good. We have a LOT of awesome kids in Jasper county-- and to top it off, they can sing and tumble and recite poetry! The performances were amazing but the time that was taken to practice and prepare is what hits home with me.
People who do not believe music programs can change lives have never been in a music program. When you are part of something that is all about performance you learn how to be a part of the team. A field show is only as good as it's weakest member, a talent show, the weakest act. These kids are learning that it's not all about them. It's about what you can do together as a team. Wow, if that isn't a life lesson, I don't know what is. You learn to hold up your end of the deal, you learn that you can't skate by because of who you know, you have to do the work or the spectators will know you didn't. Most importantly, you learn that it doesn't matter how much money you have or who your parents are but it's all about what YOU can do with hard work. I realize now that being in band and chorus taught me that you don't go to work seeing how much the light can shine on you, but how much the light can shine on what you are accomplishing, and it is so much easier to accomplish big things when you have people beside you, wanting to accomplish the same thing. Once in a while, you get someone who wants to run everything, and deep down inside, I know....they weren't taught that being part of a team is far greater than standing alone.
Last night, the girls on facebook were talking about halloween costumes. I went upstairs to look for pictures of Robert in some of his costumes and realized I have a bunch of pictures that are in need of attention. I have scrapbooked the last few years but I have a crate of pictures that I am going to have to sort before they get ruined. Hopefully tonight I will find my pictures but in the meantime I created a BUNCH more work for myself.
Robert has another El Camino project too, last Friday, the muffler fell of the truck. Tonight he is going to Effingham to buy all the stuff for a new exhaust, including a cherry bomb. This should be interesting.
Enough of my ramblings, I am SO ready for this day! Happy Friday everyone!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Lexington
Told you I would start taking pictures again!! Second night in Lexington. Things are going well. I wish I had more time to spend with the program and system I am supposed to be learning but I will do what I can. The building to the left in the bottom picture is where are meetings are--the Hilton. There is a series of skywalks between all the buildings downtown. Three of the four buildings actually are upscale--very upscale--shopping malls. I walked them all over lunch hour today. Tomorrow I am going back to the Victorian Shoppes. There was a portrait shoppe there, a lady was actually painting as I walked by. I want to go back and stare tomorrow. Carol and I went to the real mall tonight. Talk about a weird mall! It is the largest mall in KY, I fell sorry for Kentucky! The mall at Champaign would give it a run for it's money-- St. Louis Mills would eat this mall for breakfast. Anyway, a new purse and sweater later and we were back home to our "suitette"-- I call it that because, yes, it is nice, but I think a "real" suite is supposed to be separate rooms, my room is cozy. The tv is on a wall that is half in the living room, half in the bedroom, you turn it to face whichever you are in. It's nice though, and clean and that is a big plus and I have big plans to curl up on the sofa with a cup of fresh brewed decaf and the Jennifer Weiner book I purchased last night. Oh, by the way, back to the mall--you walk THROUGH the middle of Sears to get from one side of the mall to the other.
I will try to take more pictures of the scenery on our way home. The rolling hills of changing trees were beautiful!
I am missing my guys, I honestly thought I would be better this time but Robert was sick when I left and I think that has changed the dynamic. He sounds better tonight, but thinking my baby was sick and I wasn't there tugged at my heartstrings a bit, even when I get "MOM, I think I can take care of myself--it's just a bad cold" Last night, I couldn't get ahold of either one of them --they had both went to bed by 8:00--I had it in my head Robert got deathly sick and Andrew had taken him to the ER. I STILL couldn't get ahold of them this morning, but my mom had to remind me I was an hour ahead and they probably weren't even up. She was right.
Till later,
The Weekend
Those of you that also are my friends on Facebook have already seen these, but I know I have some family members who aren't on facebook, so....The above happened on Friday night. You remember those days, you are supposed to act all mad about this when you are a teen, but hey, the fact that someone took the time.....remember those days? Moms are also supposed to be mad when teepee shows up in your yard, so I did my "it better be picked up by the time I get home". Once again, just glad he has friends.
The Newton Marching Eagles at U of I, they looked SHARP!!
as well as in the parade--Robert is in the center of this row.
Robert and Trygve clowning around in the stands.As I said earlier, it goods to have friends.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Nearing the end....
It's now down to 2, 2 days till will leave for Lexington. My last day of work. I am starting it out at the Newton Sr. Center, installing a printer. Then back up to my office to tie up tons of loose ends. I had planned on getting two new laptops ready for their users by today. They were supposed to be delivered Wednesday. I still haven't seen them. That will have to wait until I get back, actually until the Monday after I get back. I don't want to install their new systems and have something not be tweaked just right and be 270 miles away.
I thought this would clear up a lot of time for today, remarkably it didn't.
Tonight, the mop is getting cut off, I CAN'T WAIT!! It has gotten entirely too long and the only thing that stopped me from getting it cut sooner was time. It is down to the last minute, it HAD to be done before Sunday. I had even debated walking into the shop at Walmart if nothing else. They don't know my hair like Amanda though so the thought was scary but not out of the question.
Tomorrow the kids head to U of I. I truly believe it will be a good day for them. I haven't sat down with all the stats from the other bands yet, but I will. I got such a kick out of Bruce last year. We marched first in our class last year. While we were at the parade, Bruce said if we would have marched later in the class, we would have gotten 2nd, but since we marched first, we were going to get third. He nailed it. I had, by the stats, put us in 2nd. We march 2nd to last in our class this year--that's a great thing!
Oh, somebody asked WHY I am going to Lexington. We are having PACE training. PACE is the accounting software used for the agency, used for a lot of government agencies actually. While I am not an accountant (Thank you Lord, and of course, anyone who knows me is thanking him too, especially if they get paid by ERBA--I am not good with numbers--I like mine in the form of reading reports, not writing them) Anyway, as I was saying, while I am not an accountant, being the IT Coordinator makes it necessary for me to learn all the software used by the agency, so if something breaks, I know how to fix it, or when I can't fix it how to call support and explain accurately what is malfunctioning. Seeing as how I haven't had time to learn to do anything more than install the software, I will not have to worry about confusing what I already know with what I am learning. Thankfully, Carol, who is the other lady going, works with it everyday.
Sidenote--yesterday it took Five, count 'em, FIVE Verizon techs to figure out what was wrong with our wireless card. I kept telling them I felt like they needed to reset something on their end. The first one told me I needed to update software, the second one told me I needed to uninstall the old program after the update (that one didn't make sense and didn't work). The third one said it was MY computer, the fourth one gave me to the fifth one who said, "Let me reset our DMU". It worked. My boss was funny, she said, "When are they going to learn that when you call, it is a problem on their end!". Glad she has so much faith in me! Glad I was right, I had lost a bit of patience after person number 3.
So, here we go, the last 48 or so hours. Have a mentioned yet that I found out last night that the largest shopping mall in Kentucky is in Lexington? We get out at 4 each evening, except Sunday, our meeting Sunday is 4 to 6 and is a meeting, not a dinner or anything fun, I can't believe we are having a meeting on Sunday but oh well.
Happy Friday, y'all. Hope it's great!
BTW, I have committed myself to this being the weekend I return to loving my camera. My posts WILL start having pictures again, SOON!
I thought this would clear up a lot of time for today, remarkably it didn't.
Tonight, the mop is getting cut off, I CAN'T WAIT!! It has gotten entirely too long and the only thing that stopped me from getting it cut sooner was time. It is down to the last minute, it HAD to be done before Sunday. I had even debated walking into the shop at Walmart if nothing else. They don't know my hair like Amanda though so the thought was scary but not out of the question.
Tomorrow the kids head to U of I. I truly believe it will be a good day for them. I haven't sat down with all the stats from the other bands yet, but I will. I got such a kick out of Bruce last year. We marched first in our class last year. While we were at the parade, Bruce said if we would have marched later in the class, we would have gotten 2nd, but since we marched first, we were going to get third. He nailed it. I had, by the stats, put us in 2nd. We march 2nd to last in our class this year--that's a great thing!
Oh, somebody asked WHY I am going to Lexington. We are having PACE training. PACE is the accounting software used for the agency, used for a lot of government agencies actually. While I am not an accountant (Thank you Lord, and of course, anyone who knows me is thanking him too, especially if they get paid by ERBA--I am not good with numbers--I like mine in the form of reading reports, not writing them) Anyway, as I was saying, while I am not an accountant, being the IT Coordinator makes it necessary for me to learn all the software used by the agency, so if something breaks, I know how to fix it, or when I can't fix it how to call support and explain accurately what is malfunctioning. Seeing as how I haven't had time to learn to do anything more than install the software, I will not have to worry about confusing what I already know with what I am learning. Thankfully, Carol, who is the other lady going, works with it everyday.
Sidenote--yesterday it took Five, count 'em, FIVE Verizon techs to figure out what was wrong with our wireless card. I kept telling them I felt like they needed to reset something on their end. The first one told me I needed to update software, the second one told me I needed to uninstall the old program after the update (that one didn't make sense and didn't work). The third one said it was MY computer, the fourth one gave me to the fifth one who said, "Let me reset our DMU". It worked. My boss was funny, she said, "When are they going to learn that when you call, it is a problem on their end!". Glad she has so much faith in me! Glad I was right, I had lost a bit of patience after person number 3.
So, here we go, the last 48 or so hours. Have a mentioned yet that I found out last night that the largest shopping mall in Kentucky is in Lexington? We get out at 4 each evening, except Sunday, our meeting Sunday is 4 to 6 and is a meeting, not a dinner or anything fun, I can't believe we are having a meeting on Sunday but oh well.
Happy Friday, y'all. Hope it's great!
BTW, I have committed myself to this being the weekend I return to loving my camera. My posts WILL start having pictures again, SOON!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Congratulations Robert!
For making the cut to District IMEA in chorus. Looks like we have a concert to go to at Eastern Illinois University on November 21st.
Good job kiddo!
Good job kiddo!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Down to 6
My countdown is going REALLY fast!! I have accomplished so much though and am really proud of where I am starting the week. Last week I installed a total of 10 computers. I have a few "finishing touches" to put on tomorrow but by the time I get home tomorrow evening, that will be completely crossed off the list.
The 2009 band classic is in the books--what a relief!!! I did much better handling the stresses of tabulator this year. I actually haven't lost any sleep over it this time and KNOW it was correct. Eventhough it was cold, the sun shone and we had a successful day. Effingham went well and our kids did amazing. We had a marching judge AND a general effect judge crucify us, don't know why, all the other judges seemed to love us. The end results were 1st place auxiliary, percussion, and music. 2nd place overall for our class. Considering we were against several other bands, it was still a great showing!
This morning Robert heads to IMEA auditions at Effingham. I think he is ready as he is going to be. He has practiced for this and I am proud of him for it. Yesterday afternoon, he went into church where he could use the piano (he doesn't like "pecking out notes" on our electric piano). I wish him all the luck in the world and have seen his voice improve over working on this.
Andrew and I are headed to covered bridge today. I felt a little bad about leaving Robert behind until I realized Robert was feeling a little relieved at being left behind. He plans on going to work at Nana's house when he gets home. I think he thinks he got the better end of the deal so that worked to my advantage.
This week should be a breeze compared to the last couple. No class this week, no ballgame at home this week. Just Awana, a quick choir practice, hopefully a basket bingo Friday night, U of I Saturday and then leave for Lexington at 8 am Sunday morning. I have already positioned myself not to have work hanging over my head while I am gone and I have the world's greatest assistant so I know I don't have to worry about things while I am gone either.
Bring on the final countdown!
The 2009 band classic is in the books--what a relief!!! I did much better handling the stresses of tabulator this year. I actually haven't lost any sleep over it this time and KNOW it was correct. Eventhough it was cold, the sun shone and we had a successful day. Effingham went well and our kids did amazing. We had a marching judge AND a general effect judge crucify us, don't know why, all the other judges seemed to love us. The end results were 1st place auxiliary, percussion, and music. 2nd place overall for our class. Considering we were against several other bands, it was still a great showing!
This morning Robert heads to IMEA auditions at Effingham. I think he is ready as he is going to be. He has practiced for this and I am proud of him for it. Yesterday afternoon, he went into church where he could use the piano (he doesn't like "pecking out notes" on our electric piano). I wish him all the luck in the world and have seen his voice improve over working on this.
Andrew and I are headed to covered bridge today. I felt a little bad about leaving Robert behind until I realized Robert was feeling a little relieved at being left behind. He plans on going to work at Nana's house when he gets home. I think he thinks he got the better end of the deal so that worked to my advantage.
This week should be a breeze compared to the last couple. No class this week, no ballgame at home this week. Just Awana, a quick choir practice, hopefully a basket bingo Friday night, U of I Saturday and then leave for Lexington at 8 am Sunday morning. I have already positioned myself not to have work hanging over my head while I am gone and I have the world's greatest assistant so I know I don't have to worry about things while I am gone either.
Bring on the final countdown!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Yeah for us!!
Yeah #1. The Weatherization building computers are installed and working properly, complete with networked printer and wireless connectivity Two little tweaks to take care of--one I have to run to the Weatherization building in Olney before I can finish, which I am doing today and the other is one last program that needs loaded but I ordered a new disc. When it gets here, that will be about a 20 minute total job. All the hard stuff is done though! And it works!! Which is actually quite amazing even to me. It went way too easy. I think I am just getting to where I know what I am doing without a lot of hassle and that in itself is a big thing.
Yeah #2. My assistant Carrie was in charge of getting all our LIHEAP files ready for audit, which is all next week. She finished yesterday and we are 100% ready! Yeah Carrie! It feels a little weird not being responsible for this myself but I trust her and am excited that she is doing so well!
Yeah #3. I had all SIX of my guys at Awana last night, at the same time!!! SIX 16 &17 year old boys that take the time, one after he gets off work, two after football practice, to come and learn more about what God wants for their lives. I am so impressed by the fact they are there. Then, there is the fact that they are truly wanting to learn. Probably the biggest YEAH of all! I am not opposed to girls, we just don't have any coming right at the moment. So, if you all know any high school girls that want an opportunity to hang around with six very, very nice high school boys for a couple hours on Wednesday evenings, send them to the Hidalgo Townhouse at 6:15!
Yeah #4. On the road today to get 4 of the 6 Sr. Center towers in. If I can get all these computers installed this week, I will have the 4 days next week to actually stay in my office. Which would be great. I stayed late last night to clean. You know how messy your house gets when you are just in and out and throw things everywhere? My office was looking like that too. It's better but I am not 100% caught up. Four days there though and I would be.
My countdown is going well! Tonight I have to knock out everything for my part of the band classic, which I have everything gathered up, just need to sit down and do it-no problem!
Yeah #2. My assistant Carrie was in charge of getting all our LIHEAP files ready for audit, which is all next week. She finished yesterday and we are 100% ready! Yeah Carrie! It feels a little weird not being responsible for this myself but I trust her and am excited that she is doing so well!
Yeah #3. I had all SIX of my guys at Awana last night, at the same time!!! SIX 16 &17 year old boys that take the time, one after he gets off work, two after football practice, to come and learn more about what God wants for their lives. I am so impressed by the fact they are there. Then, there is the fact that they are truly wanting to learn. Probably the biggest YEAH of all! I am not opposed to girls, we just don't have any coming right at the moment. So, if you all know any high school girls that want an opportunity to hang around with six very, very nice high school boys for a couple hours on Wednesday evenings, send them to the Hidalgo Townhouse at 6:15!
Yeah #4. On the road today to get 4 of the 6 Sr. Center towers in. If I can get all these computers installed this week, I will have the 4 days next week to actually stay in my office. Which would be great. I stayed late last night to clean. You know how messy your house gets when you are just in and out and throw things everywhere? My office was looking like that too. It's better but I am not 100% caught up. Four days there though and I would be.
My countdown is going well! Tonight I have to knock out everything for my part of the band classic, which I have everything gathered up, just need to sit down and do it-no problem!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Life
Countdown is now down to day 11. I finished the last class of this session last night, one thing to mark off the list. Today I finish (I hope) getting the systems set up at our new building across the drive. I will take some pictures to post, our new place is pretty impressive. I was having a discussion last night with our Executive Director and our Head Start Director--we definitely have a wonderful work environment. Anyone who would like to see, drop by, let me show you around and see just exactly what all we do.
Tomorrow, I am on the road all day, Olney in the am, Robinson and Oblong in the pm. These will all be "reinstalls"- hoping and praying they all go well or I will have more days of travel and I am really wanting and needing to be in the office all next week. Thursday night is officially designated as "Band Classic" night for me. I hope to have my part all finished by the time I hit my pillow that night.
Robert has had practice all week for IMEA after school, he has also had band practice the last two nights. Needless to say, I haven't seen much of him. Last night, I got home at 8:30, he got home at 9:10. We did at least sit down and watch NCIS together.
On the homefront- I believe I mentioned I fried my computer. I did every diagnostic I knew how to do and kept coming up with the same answer- tons of blocks corrupted in tons of areas. I brought home my last textbook because I thought I might be missing something. Nope, same answer. I couldn't let it go though and loaded it up and took it to work with me. When our guy, Mat, from MASS computers came over, I sent it with him. Bless his heart, he has worked on it for two days. He called Monday evening and said he was done doing what he would do for a normal client, but since it was me, he was going to just let it sit on the diagnostic machine as long as it would run. Yesterday evening, he called and said he had "bad news and good news" the bad news was he still hadn't been able to retrieve anything. The good news was it was still running, which means there is still hope. I am pretty well over it. I realized that I have ALL my pictures backed up, which was the only thing I couldn't replicate. I have set up a new checkbook on Excel and so I am not really even missing the old one. It is never as bad as it first looks when something happens. It just makes me a little aggravated that someone can call and say, "My computer keeps freezing up and I can't even get it to shut down" and I can go figure out what is going on and fix it (that just happened yesterday) and I wasn't able to do anything about mine. As Mat says, when a Hard drive gets corrupted this bad, there is really nothing that can be done.
That's life.. 11 days to driving through the Hoosier National Forrest in the fall, my hotel suite, shopping, a spa night, and oh....yeah....learning new software in the meantime. Funny, I used to really dread trips, and though I will miss my guys, I know they will take care of each other, themselves and if things go as usual, the house.
Tomorrow, I am on the road all day, Olney in the am, Robinson and Oblong in the pm. These will all be "reinstalls"- hoping and praying they all go well or I will have more days of travel and I am really wanting and needing to be in the office all next week. Thursday night is officially designated as "Band Classic" night for me. I hope to have my part all finished by the time I hit my pillow that night.
Robert has had practice all week for IMEA after school, he has also had band practice the last two nights. Needless to say, I haven't seen much of him. Last night, I got home at 8:30, he got home at 9:10. We did at least sit down and watch NCIS together.
On the homefront- I believe I mentioned I fried my computer. I did every diagnostic I knew how to do and kept coming up with the same answer- tons of blocks corrupted in tons of areas. I brought home my last textbook because I thought I might be missing something. Nope, same answer. I couldn't let it go though and loaded it up and took it to work with me. When our guy, Mat, from MASS computers came over, I sent it with him. Bless his heart, he has worked on it for two days. He called Monday evening and said he was done doing what he would do for a normal client, but since it was me, he was going to just let it sit on the diagnostic machine as long as it would run. Yesterday evening, he called and said he had "bad news and good news" the bad news was he still hadn't been able to retrieve anything. The good news was it was still running, which means there is still hope. I am pretty well over it. I realized that I have ALL my pictures backed up, which was the only thing I couldn't replicate. I have set up a new checkbook on Excel and so I am not really even missing the old one. It is never as bad as it first looks when something happens. It just makes me a little aggravated that someone can call and say, "My computer keeps freezing up and I can't even get it to shut down" and I can go figure out what is going on and fix it (that just happened yesterday) and I wasn't able to do anything about mine. As Mat says, when a Hard drive gets corrupted this bad, there is really nothing that can be done.
That's life.. 11 days to driving through the Hoosier National Forrest in the fall, my hotel suite, shopping, a spa night, and oh....yeah....learning new software in the meantime. Funny, I used to really dread trips, and though I will miss my guys, I know they will take care of each other, themselves and if things go as usual, the house.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Happy October!!
I think we could call September a rough month. Seems like nothing went as planned for us. October WILL be better!!
For the moment, Andrew's life is the calmest, but he has inventory the 4th week so it's still not going to be a walk in the park. He also has a couple other irons in the fire that can just cause a little stress.
Robert has 4 band competitions, one exhibition at our own competition, the homecoming parade and two more football games to play at for band.
He has IMEA tryouts for chorus on the 12th. Besides the fact that report cards come home the end of the month, I think that is his October in a nutshell.
I have went around and round with him about a job. Most of his friends are now working a steady job and he thinks he should be too. I really believe, because of the dyslexia, he has to put more effort into keeping his grades up. He has more A's than anything right now and I would like to see it stay that way over the next two years. He works for a few of his farmer friends when he gets the chance and his help is invaluable around here- I couldn't be gone as much as I am if he didn't help out. So, for the moment, he is working when he can for who he can.
I think it is my October that is feeling a bit like warp speed. I am on a now 18 day countdown to get everything done for everybody. The 18th, a coworker and I leave for Lexington KY for a conference on payroll software. This is for a system that is used pretty well exclusively by Government agencies. They are putting us up in an "all suites" hotel, Carol and I each get our own rooms---they may have to drag us out Wednesday when it is time to come home!! To top it off, Carol sells Beauticontrol on the side. They are the ones that come to your house and do spa treatments. She is bringing her spa stuff with her!! See why I have my eye on having everything else out of the way when we leave?
Meanwhile, back to the here and now. I go to Lawrenceville and Bridgeport today to work on Computers, play with the Alumni band tonight at Powder puff. Work in the morning, off at noon to be in the Homecoming Parade, and play with the band tomorrow night. Saturday I plan to get my spring bulbs set out, and go to Robinson to a band competition. Next week, we have a Band Booster meeting on Monday night, my final class on Tuesday, Awana Wednesday, PT Conferences Thursday, my first Keep Warm Illinois Workshop of the year on Friday and the Band Classic Saturday morning, where I do the tabulations for the scores--believe you me that is a scary job to have! That Saturday we go to Effingham. On the 11th, we sing at Simple Blessings in the afternoon. On the 12th, I have the day off and am planning on hitting COVERED BRIDGE!! Yeah!! U of I is that Saturday and that brings us to the 18th. Sometime during the next 18 days, I need to install 11 new computers. 5 of them new installs for our new Weatherization building in Greenup and 6 "re" installs which means I have to pull all the documents, emails and programs off of the old machine and put them on the new ones --these are on computers in Richland, Crawford, and Jasper counties. I don't mind doing this, in fact I love doing everything mentioned above. I was bouncing around the office yesterday just happy about all the new things happening--we are also getting new internet pipe in our office, this will bring in another router and more challenges but I am up for them.
Well, Day 18, here I come!
P.S. While typing this I got an email from Sarah @ Sarahsellz, my new orange and blue purse will be waiting for me when I get home this evening! Thanks again Sarah. I am always the one that misses something the first time and she has to "keep her eye out" to find what I was looking for. I am so excited that she was able to find it.
Thanks again!
Happy October!!
For the moment, Andrew's life is the calmest, but he has inventory the 4th week so it's still not going to be a walk in the park. He also has a couple other irons in the fire that can just cause a little stress.
Robert has 4 band competitions, one exhibition at our own competition, the homecoming parade and two more football games to play at for band.
He has IMEA tryouts for chorus on the 12th. Besides the fact that report cards come home the end of the month, I think that is his October in a nutshell.
I have went around and round with him about a job. Most of his friends are now working a steady job and he thinks he should be too. I really believe, because of the dyslexia, he has to put more effort into keeping his grades up. He has more A's than anything right now and I would like to see it stay that way over the next two years. He works for a few of his farmer friends when he gets the chance and his help is invaluable around here- I couldn't be gone as much as I am if he didn't help out. So, for the moment, he is working when he can for who he can.
I think it is my October that is feeling a bit like warp speed. I am on a now 18 day countdown to get everything done for everybody. The 18th, a coworker and I leave for Lexington KY for a conference on payroll software. This is for a system that is used pretty well exclusively by Government agencies. They are putting us up in an "all suites" hotel, Carol and I each get our own rooms---they may have to drag us out Wednesday when it is time to come home!! To top it off, Carol sells Beauticontrol on the side. They are the ones that come to your house and do spa treatments. She is bringing her spa stuff with her!! See why I have my eye on having everything else out of the way when we leave?
Meanwhile, back to the here and now. I go to Lawrenceville and Bridgeport today to work on Computers, play with the Alumni band tonight at Powder puff. Work in the morning, off at noon to be in the Homecoming Parade, and play with the band tomorrow night. Saturday I plan to get my spring bulbs set out, and go to Robinson to a band competition. Next week, we have a Band Booster meeting on Monday night, my final class on Tuesday, Awana Wednesday, PT Conferences Thursday, my first Keep Warm Illinois Workshop of the year on Friday and the Band Classic Saturday morning, where I do the tabulations for the scores--believe you me that is a scary job to have! That Saturday we go to Effingham. On the 11th, we sing at Simple Blessings in the afternoon. On the 12th, I have the day off and am planning on hitting COVERED BRIDGE!! Yeah!! U of I is that Saturday and that brings us to the 18th. Sometime during the next 18 days, I need to install 11 new computers. 5 of them new installs for our new Weatherization building in Greenup and 6 "re" installs which means I have to pull all the documents, emails and programs off of the old machine and put them on the new ones --these are on computers in Richland, Crawford, and Jasper counties. I don't mind doing this, in fact I love doing everything mentioned above. I was bouncing around the office yesterday just happy about all the new things happening--we are also getting new internet pipe in our office, this will bring in another router and more challenges but I am up for them.
Well, Day 18, here I come!
P.S. While typing this I got an email from Sarah @ Sarahsellz, my new orange and blue purse will be waiting for me when I get home this evening! Thanks again Sarah. I am always the one that misses something the first time and she has to "keep her eye out" to find what I was looking for. I am so excited that she was able to find it.
Thanks again!
Happy October!!
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