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Was about 55 degrees when I got up this morning around 0530. 78 right now with a predicted high of 84. Humidity is not a factor...

Went to the gym. Fed the dog, took a shower, then we spent an hour and a half at the park playing fetch and Tank was running around with other dogs.

Came home and just finished frying up a batch of Iggy's clam cakes... and they're f---ing delicious.

One-oh-something today... again... at this point I'll take anything under '05...

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There is irony in cancelling swimming because it's raining and you don't want to get wet.

OK, lightning I guess, but... I mean... Come on, man!

10.2 mpg towing 7500 lbs... is pretty damn good. You got the 6.4L so imagine if you had the 5.7L.

Me and the pupper just had some DQ soft serve. He had a small and I had a medium... but the little bassturd ate all his and then ate the rest of mine, too.

Greedy...

If you own it and it tows it's a good tow vehicle.

"She fittin to get locked up off a turkey leg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLTRkgr4qYY

Orlando. Lightening capital of the world.

He's a 15 month old dog. I'd have to inhale it. lol

The boy does love him some ice cream...

I heard yo momma liked bears... alot..

Thinking of doing some homework.

OK, thought about it. It's not happening tonight.

Meybe I should start a new thread and post my weekly ass-in-ments. That way youze guys can contribute my smarts and growth down my path of enlightening and stuff. At sometime I'll gets me another piece of paper that says I know what I'm doing and knolegabel and stuff.

This term's classes are Web Oriented Services and Project Management.

Web Oriented Services Course Description:
Students will explore the purpose of various web oriented services. In the context of an organizational environment, they will determine which web oriented service would satisfy a business need or requirement, and learn the skills necessary for maintaining a web oriented service solution.

Project Management Course Description:
As modern organizations have become more complex, they have also become more project-driven. This course uses a basic project management framework in which the project lifecycle is broken into organizing, planning, monitoring, and controlling the project. You will learn the methodologies and tools necessary at each stage for managing the projects effectively in terms of time, cost, quality, risk, and resources.

You guys could be my tutors and stuff...

Yeah, the course descriptions are pretty vague (the description is cut and past from the syllabus of each course).

This week's assignment for Project Management is as follows and due by midnight on Sunday (note: there are smaller assignment's, readings, quizzes, group discussions of the current week's topic throughout the week which are due every Thurs).

{Cut and paste from the Project #2 of the class}

Due Sunday - Project #2 for the Project management course.

Scenario:
You are in the tenth week of the XYZ Business Workflow project, and things haven’t quite gone according to plan. At the end of the requirements analysis phase, your team told you that:

Feature 2 (F2) development is more complex than thought initially. It will take at least 10 workweeks to be complete.
Feature Customization 3 (C3) will take close to five workweeks.
The complete system testing will take a minimum of one-and-a-half weeks due to the complexity of the systems involved.

You made some necessary resource and schedule adjustments in your plan and obtained stakeholder approval for the same.

However, due to delays in getting client approvals, UI design and development took one week more than estimated, which has now pushed all dependent tasks out by a week. Moreover, a resource availability issue has added three days to the Feature 1 development effort.

You are scheduled to present a project status report at the end of the week at a stakeholders’ meeting that will include the client’s representatives.

Directions:
Project Status Report
Create a presentation for stakeholders describing relevant aspects of the current project status. Your presentation must include the following: original and current project schedule, current project status, updated risk register, and any other relevant project information you believe the stakeholders need to know. You can use any project management software (PMS) tool to create and update the project schedule and status. However, remember to choose a tool that will help you complete all parts of the project, like the Gantt chart.

Specifically, your presentation must include the following:

General project information
Project goal and objectives
Team information
Initial schedule with milestones and end dates

Current project status
Gantt chart that shows the project’s progress and current schedule
Updated risk/issues register that shows:
Status of risks from the project planning phase including whether and how they have affected the project plan and schedule so far
Any issues facing the team currently and how you are managing them
Any new potential risks and proposed mitigation

Project summary
Updated milestone and end dates
Action items to ensure the project stays on track


So as I read it.. in summary, I have to do a Gannt chart the fictitious project using something like MS Project and a make a PowerPoint presentation of all the blurbs they are looking for. Been there done that so it's just typically reviewing what is needed for the upcoming week and guestimate how much time and energy I'll have to set aside to meet the criteria. My bar for success for each course is at least 93% of total points available.

It's a BS IT program with concentration in Cyber Security. So far it's been easy to do, the concepts aren't that hard to grasp (at least for me), it's just time at task and a time sink to read through the information and watch the video lectures.

If I decided to do a Physical Therapy major (I was seriously considering it when I decided to go back to school for a career change), it would have been something TOTALLY different and out of my element so likely more difficult.

Side note: If you buy a lawnmower at Walmart and want to return it, drain the gas tank before doing so. Some dude brought in a gas lawn mower then brought it back in for return tonight. He didn't empty the tank of gas so we had to tell him that we can't take it back with a full tank of gas.

He got pissed, stormed out and drained the 1/4 gallon of gas down the sewer drain in the parking lot then came back in to return it (all pissed off).

Yeah, well now we can take it back but... you drained the gas into the sewer... we have the video dickhead. You're going to probably be hit with improper waste disposal of the gas in the sewer system and will probably be charged, it's out of our hands now. Ya could have taken it back home and disposed of the gas however you wanted. Or you could have bought a gas can, and we'd help you siphon the gas out but nooo... you dumped it down the drain in our parking lot. Now we have to report it.

I'm guessing he's gonna be hit with EPA fines, illegal disposal fines, and anything else the authorities can ring up on him, probably thousands of dollars for a $1.50 worth of gas.

98.2% of the people in the world are stupid.

It sounds like that crowd is special Tony.

Happy Saturday folks. Heading back down the hill into the oven for a few. Why?

Friggn phone 📱

Bison burgers, smoky bbq pork sirloin and chipotle chicken skewers and broccoli, red potatoes, and carrots on the menu for lunch today.

Saturday greetings peeps .

Happy Saturday fellas.

No clouds today, already baking in the sun. Not complaining, having a great time.

Woke up with the beer chits. Doesn't help that I ate an entire thin crust dominos pizza while participating in drunken shenanigans. Went to the flush toilets - closed for cleaning. Drove to the other side of paddock, line out the door. Went to the honey pots - no tp. Went to the other ones - lines. I really don't like crapping in the camper so I took a roll of tp from camper and unloaded in a portajohn.

Went to the stall showers afterwards and had an ice cold shower at 0700. It's not bad if it's the end of the day and I'm hot n sweaty but it was not hot enough for a cold shower. Group shower with the hot water at the other bathroom was pretty packed already so I went with a cold one.

Have you tried punching him in the mouf?

Got home this morning to find a care package in the mail box from a beer buddy in Connecticut. Eight cans of Tree House, Burlington Beer, etc only one of which I have ever had. It may be 104 here but Imma be good in da pool with these ice cold and a good Habanos.

Only hope they have not been siting too long in the metal mail box.

Did manufacturing engineering, R&D, process development, lean manufacturing in various fields for all of my professional career. Took a sabbatical after I got laid off from my last gig in at the end of 2018 ish.

When I went go get back into the work force around the end of 2019 beginning of 2020 corona hit. Had some offers but the commute would have sucked or I'd have to relocate. Decided I'd do a career change while everything was shut down. Took a part time gig at Wally World doing mall cop stuff where they would pay 100% tuition costs for select fields. (As much as I or anyone else slams them, they do have some great bennies - tuition, 401k with 7% matching, employee stock purchase with 15% matching, insurance...)

Going to school for IT and cyber security. A lot of my credits from my engineering degree transferred over so I could get a BS major in IT with concentration on cyber security in two years. So far the stuff is not that hard and it comes to me rather easy (I've played with computer stuff a lot as a hobby), it just time at task to complete the courses.

Off to the circus and and enter into a completely different slice of reality. Never know what's going to happen in the next 8 hrs.

May have gone too fast on the daytime beers. Kinda want a nap. Went to bed pretty early last night cause I didn't want to party too hard. Dude that's staying in my camper didn't come in till 0400. I gotta be up by 6 to cook staff breakfast.

Almost dinnertime, so can't take a nap. Sautéing some peppers and onions to go with the sausages on French bread imma grill in a bit.

Made grilled chicken Caesar salad wraps and Chicago dogs for lunch. Eggs, bbq pork, pork sausage patties and eggs on buttered and grilled English muffins for breakfast. Dinner yesterday was 3lbs ground beef turned into 6 hamburgers. Lunch was cold pizza I brought cause I was unpacking/setting up at lunchtime.

Tomorrow morning is the favorite breakfast of my track buddies. Beef chorizo, pork sausage, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, cheese, and eggs all cooked on my griddle and stuffed into burrito tortillas. Probably gonna throw in the last bits of pulled pork and finely chop the leftover grilled chicken in there too.

HUHC watching the drifters from my truckbed. Gotta pack up and head home early tomorrow. Wife said I have to go to family party thing.