May 1, 2016

 I stayed in bed until about nine o'clock this morning. I woke up some time before that and it was nice to just lay there.

I didn't really accomplish much this morning. I replied to a discussion post but I think that might have been it. I can't really remember at this point.

At some point today, I think after lunch, I worked on the technology table for my group project. I formatted it, which included condensing the link for each source into a link called “Link” instead of having a really long URL in the table. I also added in the few things one of my group member found and added in some of the totals he came up with for how much of each item we should buy. I changed several of them and added in all the ones he didn't do, and also added the refresh cycle for each item. Tonight I added in a cloud service, anti-virus software, and one or two other things. All-in-all, I did a lot of research, editing and formatting this afternoon and tonight. I also discovered there isn't really an easy way to put an Excel table into a Google Doc. I think there are some workarounds using HTML but when I tried to just paste it in the document would crash. We'll have to do the rough draft and final papers in Word so I can get my table added in.

One group member posted his part of the paper today, which was good, and another one just asked if we had decided on the name of the library, so not that productive. Still better than the group member that I didn't hear from today. I'm still not sure if I need to write something for the paper to explain the table or if the table is enough. I sent an email out to the group so we'll see if I get a response. No one sent me their presentation slides, which I'm not surprised by, but hopefully soon. We don't present until Thursday so hopefully by Tuesday I'll get all their stuff so I can make the presentation.

After dinner I remembered that I needed to write a new tech post for my technology class. I remembered it a few days ago but then complete forgot. Thankfully it didn't take me too long to find something. I went with the Espresso Book Machine, which is a print-on-demand book printer. It is super expensive but it's also pretty cool.

Before calling it a night, at 10:30PM, I posted one more response to the discussion thread for this week. Hopefully that will be enough to get me full points. I got 0.3 off last week or the week before because she said I didn't post often enough, even though I posted my main entry on Thursday and responded to posts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which is usually enough to get me full points. I think it may have been a mistake but I'm not going to say anything until I end up being 0.3 points away from an 'A'.

This is going to be a stressful week leading up to the presentation on Thursday morning. I also have to write my end of the semester reflection for my other class. And there will be testing at work. But next week, at least after Tuesday, I'll be done for the semester. Then I just have the induction ceremony thing that Friday and graduation Saturday. And then the summer semester starts. Which means I need to do my write up for my practicum so I can get that submitted and get enrolled in the practicum. Good grief.

I'm going to bed now.