WEEK 6

DOWN.....Six to go?? This week was AWESOME! So easy. Access did take me a while since I have never worked in it. It was fun to learn something totally NEW! I also spent hours on my web pages, I might go play with those some more! It was fun learning the codes, my Mom said in no time I will be a computer nerd like HER! It is Wednesday night and I am done! With both of my classes. I am seriously considering taking more classes next term. But I don't think all my classes will be as easy as these two have been, so I am kinda scared to take on more, but I want to finish sometime before I am 40!!

Onto my personal life.....anything interesting? Not really, except the STUPID wind in Mountain Home ruined my patio table. We just got this table last summer! The lovely fall wind came up and dumped it over, this was not a small, light table. This was a rectangle table with a glass top! Now its a rectangle table with NO top! Lucky for me I am married to a contractor and he is going to put a Formica top on it, then it will be INDESTRUCTIBLE!! This is the second big thing of mine the wind destroyed, last spring it took the kids trampoline, they had only had it for a few months!

I HATE THE MOUNTAIN HOME WIND!!!
But I do like living in Mountain Home (actually the middle of nowhere outside Mountain Home)

MID-TERM????

Are we already half way through this term?? If so, I can handle this college thing!! This week was similar to other weeks, but two assignments made me think a little. I had to stop and contemplate what approach I wanted to use. This class is taking about the same amount of time. Excel, was again a little difficult. I am excited to start into access. I have never used that program. I am very pleased with the grade I am receiving, even though I bombed one quiz, well I guess I didn't bomb, but I sure didn't do very well! :)

I just finished reading 'The Time Travelers Wife' I am not sure I liked it. I liked the concept of time travel and I liked that he wove in and out of her life. I did not like that he could not change anything, that what was to happen would happen and he had no control over it. I probably hated that aspect because I hate it when I see that in real life! When people say: I can't control anything, I can't get a better job, I can't teach my kids better, ect, ect. We are in control of our lives! There are things we cannot control, but we can control how we will react and what our next step will be! It also had some bad language, I can handle some but not much, and this had more than I liked.

Life in FULL SWING!

This week was a VERY busy week! Between 5 different activities for the kids, home school, my schooling and my first COLLEGE EXAM (Which I aced!!) we were running every which way!

This class is taking about the same amount of time it has taken. Excel was a little hard for me. I haven't worked with excel in YEARS, and when I did work with it, it was only for a class, so I haven't used it much.

On to funner things: What you get when a 10 year old has too much time, and access to a camera???

Pet Shop UNO of course!


This made my husband laugh out loud so I had to share it!

SNOW??

SNOW in the first week of October?? I am not talking about a nice little dusting, I am talking about SNOW!! This is the view from my kitchen window. Usually it looks like this mid-winter, ya know January or so. Not October!! My husband was up camping when it hit, they came out of the hills in 7 inches of snow! CRAZY!

So this week was pretty easy, I was able to mark two things off my list on Monday morning, which was AWESOME!! I already had a facebook page and a myspace page, I also have a personal blog, which my sister says I am neglecting for my school blog! This class is took about 12 hours this week. It takes a while to read through the material in the book as well at the online material. If all of my classes are this enjoyable through this college experience, this will be FUN!! I must say the amount of reading I am doing for this class is cutting into my fun reading! :) I didn't even get my book club book read before the meeting, but I was forgiven! Does that tell you what a nerd I am?? I LOVE book club!!

To go back to school at my age has been so rewarding, when I went for a short time at 19 I didn't realize what a privilege it is to have higher education. I find that I appreciate the knowledge that I am gaining so much more at my age! It was fun to hear that Robin went back at 39, makes me feel a lot better about going back at 31!

Holy Toleto....Tomatoes!!!

OK...so that had nothing to do with this class or any other class I am taking, but THAT does sum up what I have been doing for the last two days! So we had our first HARD frost here about two nights ago, so ya know what that means?? Anything viable left in the gardens had to be picked! So after picking all the tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelon and cantaloupe out of my garden, my mom calls and says.....we have LOTS of tomatoes, you want them? Silly me I said SURE, I hate to see good produce go to waste! An hour of picking later, I come home with 5 Wal-mart bags FULL of beautiful, ripe, red, oblong, Roma tomatoes! Two days later; those 5 Wal-mart bags of tomatoes are spaghetti sauce and tomato soup! YUMMY!

I wanted to post a picture of my beautiful tomatoes, but my sister has my camera!!

So to better answer the questions presented, I kept a journal of this weeks work:

Lab 1 took me a while because I could not figure out the first memory. I knew the ram and I knew the hard drive info. I wasn’t sure what the other memory was supposed to be. I am still not sure if I got that part right! :)

Lab 2 took me a while too, I thought I wanted XP on a new system, but I decided I don’t.It only allows 4 GB of memory to be used; I want more memory then that. My laptop has 4GB and that works for now, but I don’t let the kids load any games onto it.

I have to admit at the beginning of this week I was very overwhelmed at the list of things that needed done, however it is Wednesday morning, and I am done with everything except listening to the elluminate session and publishing this. So it seems I need to work really hard at the beginning of the week on school, and then work hard at the end of the week on household stuff, and my daughter’s home school stuff.

Things I have learned since I started this class:

1) XP will only support up to 4 GB
2) (S) at the end of HTTP(S) stands for secure

I am understanding what we are doing in this class so far, its been mostly review, with just a couple of new things. I am enjoying most all parts of this class, I have enjoyed computers for years now.

It is taking me about 12-16 hours a week to complete the task list. I did spend a lot of time on the window shopping for a computer. I am in the market (but with a much smaller budget!) for a new desktop, so it was really interesting to see what has become the standard since I bought a desktop 8 years ago.

This was being passed around on face book, I thought it was BEAUTIFUL!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEpX2BcB9As