I've the G5 with the Gateway speakers cranked up. Boom boom boom! Beach Boys. Help Me, Rhonda! Man! This is great music. Richard, hope you are enjoying this downstairs as well. Say what Richard? I can't hear you! Help help help help me Rhonda!
Friday, January 28, 2005
Sixteen and Counting
Tomorrow, Jaime and I will have been married for 16 years. Seems like yesterday and also like forever. Either way it has been with the most wonderful woman in the world. No man could ask for a more loving wife. I am truly blessed!
Thursday, January 27, 2005
MAC is a rockin' machine!
My G5 is now loaded with almost every cd I own. It took me the better part of a Sunday to add all of the titles. I'm using iTunes. All of the iLife suite is so easy to use. It really invites its user to participate to the fullest. Son Matt has passed to me his old Gateway powered speaker system. I connected the cables last night and this MAC rocks! Downstairs neighbor Richard probably thinks his reclinder has grown a vibrator! I'm sure that it rocks his unit. All I need now is my iPod. (I imagine that it's coming soon!)
Where is Security?
Well, I need paper. Seems like every Tuesday and Thursday nights, it's the same sad story...no paper in the laser printer. Now what good is this fine HP printer without paper? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
So, time to go looking for paper. First choice involves the fewest number of steps. I'll go next door to the Business Education office. But, I find it locked. No problem. I'll try copier in the faculty lounge. No luck. It's empty, too. OK, now I need to find security to open the Business Education Office. I wander down the hall to the Security Office. Anyone home? No. I wait. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. This is too much. I wonder if housekeeping can contact security. What is there was a real emergency? I read a sign outside the security office door... defibrulator inside. Well I can't get to it! What if someone was having a heart attack? I talk with housekeeping. She has the phone number of Bob the Security guy. I phone him. Bob, can you let me into the Business Education office? Well, he is busy across the street in the Administration building testing the fire alarms. Well, what if there was a fire over here? There is no one to report an emergency to. Bob says that he will be back in fifteen minutes and will meet me in my classroom. After forty-five minutes, he shows. Now I can get paper and find out what the printer is for.
So, time to go looking for paper. First choice involves the fewest number of steps. I'll go next door to the Business Education office. But, I find it locked. No problem. I'll try copier in the faculty lounge. No luck. It's empty, too. OK, now I need to find security to open the Business Education Office. I wander down the hall to the Security Office. Anyone home? No. I wait. Five minutes. Ten minutes. Fifteen minutes. This is too much. I wonder if housekeeping can contact security. What is there was a real emergency? I read a sign outside the security office door... defibrulator inside. Well I can't get to it! What if someone was having a heart attack? I talk with housekeeping. She has the phone number of Bob the Security guy. I phone him. Bob, can you let me into the Business Education office? Well, he is busy across the street in the Administration building testing the fire alarms. Well, what if there was a fire over here? There is no one to report an emergency to. Bob says that he will be back in fifteen minutes and will meet me in my classroom. After forty-five minutes, he shows. Now I can get paper and find out what the printer is for.
What is Concatenate?
Betsy wants to add @auburn.edu to the end of serveral thousand user names. I searched Excel help (user names are in an Excel file) and found concatenate. This is a pretty cool function. To concatenate the contents of two or more cells (or text) would look something like this:
=contatenate(A1,"@auburn.edu"). The user name contents of cell A1 would then be concatenated to @auburn.edu in the cell where the function appears. The function could easily be copied down the page. Try it, you'll like it!
=contatenate(A1,"@auburn.edu"). The user name contents of cell A1 would then be concatenated to @auburn.edu in the cell where the function appears. The function could easily be copied down the page. Try it, you'll like it!
First Post in A Day in the Life
This is my first post on the Google blog site called Blogger. Of course the name of the blog comes from the Lennon/McCartney tune by the same name. So as this day in the life goes, life is good. I am currently employed in the best job of my life.
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