Short Break

Need to take a short break from my blogs for a bit. Life is throwing me a few curveballs and while I really want to blog about them, it would be inappropriate at this time. So, I'm going to have take a short break. I'll be back, hopefully before long.

Yet Another Day Studying

I'm kind of enjoying the relative quiet of the last few days. It had been chaotic and painful but the last few days have been quiet and relatively easy to study.

So yesterday's study was about databases and web search engines. Today I believe is about business email and personal information management.

The database stuff was kind of interesting. The web search engine stuff was not anything new for me, so it was kind of boring.

I'm still hoping to be ready to take my exam at the end of the month. We'll see how it goes. I don't want to rush through it and knowing I did have a death in the family, I'm giving myself a little slack but I do want to get this class done.

I still need a debatable thesis for my next class and I still have no ideas for it.

Well off to the fascinating world of business email and personal information management.

Have a great week and go learn something, anything, just learn.

Only One Day Late this time...

Amazingly I remembered to update this blog today. I know it's a day late but given all the work we've been doing around the house this week, I'm proud to have remembered at all.

So what have I learned this past week? Well, I'll tell you I've learned:

1) Drywall dust gets everywhere when you're remodeling

2) Trying to clean everyday when you're remodeling is an exercise in futility

3) Not cleaning everyday when you're remodeling would be a bad idea that we thankfully have not done

4) When you spend the majority of a day studying about computer protocols you have weird dreams

5) http means Hyper Text Transmission Protocol

6) html5 means Hyper Text Markup Language version 5

7) I should not study right before I go to bed

I've learned a lot of other technical things for school, but frankly I have still have a bunch of stuff to do in preparation for company on Saturday so I'm going to end this here.

Have a great week and go spend some time learning something new!

Oops, Missed A Week...

Which is still better than my weight loss blog. Ahem, we won't discuss that one.

I haven't had a lot of time for school the last couple of weeks. I've been preoccupied going to check on Grandma in the hospital and just trying to get the house in some kind of order. Though with us doing a remodel on the kitchen and the Grumpy Old Man being furloughed, clean and orderly is a challenge.

Despite the government shutdown and having an extra person in the house, it's going pretty well. Of course it's only been two days, but Grumpy is very cheerful and that helps a lot, even if it is scary.

The shut down does sort of make me wish I was going into teaching. Well, teaching history. It's really fascinating to me to see what is happening and I'd love to discuss this with a classroom full of eager teenagers, ready to get excited about the history they are living through and helping to create.

And the phrase, "eager teenagers, ready to get excited about the history they are living through and helping to create" is the reason I'm not going into teaching. I just don't see many teens these days who are excited about school. Depressing really.

I was able to study for a little bit at the hospital on Monday and I'm hoping to get some more studying done this evening and tomorrow. I'd like to really hit it hard this weekend, in between cleaning bouts.

I'm enjoying the class. Some of it is really basic and annoying but there's little stuff in there that I understood but didn't fully grasp that I'm now learning. It's kind of cool. Anyway, I'm hoping by next week to have a handle on how much longer this class will take me and I can get my test scheduled. Hopefully, I can get it scheduled and have my second certification before November. We'll see!

Have a great week and go learn something!