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...

Got some of that HD VC money?

:)

Maybe a trade.... Always wanted a microscope I'll never use.

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.

As for a microscope that you'd never use, buy a magnifying glass. It's kind of a portable microscope and you can use it to fry ants on the driveway if the Sun is out. Taught my kids how to focus the beam when the were little. My daughter thought it was mean, my son thought it was cool.

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.

You need to hang with a different crowd.

Wife and I are going to the Dillard.s Outlet. I am looking for a couple new summer shirts and some pajamas.

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.