Had an interesting afternoon and evening at the college…

First, got a free meal ( with 50 other students ) in the food court, courtesy of the student senate…ya see, this week is “spirit week”, with the soccer team having their “homecoming” game this saturday. The meal tonight was supposed to be “Free BBQ”, but someone forgot to tell the food court manager to order BBQ, so it was burgers, meatloaf, and burrito style wraps for all! Still, it was awful darn nice of them.

Unbenownst to all of us enjoying our fabulous gourmet meals, the expected thunderstorms of the day was producing a small tornado south of town, between our tiny town of Riverton, Wyoming, and Lander, 24 miles away. No damage…simply crossing open farmland, but unexpected way up this way.

After dinner, my Flash class was enjoyable, until I got selected to research and give demos of *all* the various audio editing tools for creating, modifying, optimizing, and playing “audio that can be imported into Flash”.

Boy, that is a mouthful of stuff to try to cover in the alotted 10 to 15 minutes I have to do it in…so I’ll be a little EXTRA busy this weekend.

Finally, in trying to help my fellow students, many of whom do not understand even rudimentary pc security, I created a page this week that to get them, the faculty, and many of my online friends, better prepared for saving their ‘puters from the evil that idiots with keyboards will do.

Check out the computer survival page, and grab all the REST of the tools that you don’t already have.

Well, back to work…

Major problems last nite trying to add some new functionality to the software running here…up til 3am, with no luck…deleted everything but the mysql database, reinstalled fresh, and copied the key config files over…but still getting errors when I try to use the old main file (index.php), so will have to figure it out…and all my plugins are erroring out…

sheesh…what a pain…I’ll spend more time later this weekend…got more important stuff to do for the next three days…
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I’ve been playing with Wordpress most of this evening…going thru many plugins I downloaded earlier this week, tweaking php and css code (and learning a little bit more every time), and really getting a kick out of this nifty FREE programming package.

As you might see, we now have my current weather added, and several more bells and whistles are in place, waiting for new and better postings to let them see the light. One new item lets YOU, the reader, rate MY postings as you see fit….we’ll see how that goes.

Of course, YOU can post by registering for an account…or by using the COMMENT link under any post…give it a shot.

Back in July, I got to take a ride down to Cheyenne, Wyoming with Wyoming Public TV, one of my employers. Helped them shoot and produce a weeks worth of special reports on a summer legislative session. I also got to meet the governer in person, during a ‘closing-up’ interview of the previous week. Even got a picture of he and I together…

Boy, I feel special now!

The student body president caught me in the hall last week on campus, right after the weekly senate meeting, and asked me a question. “Would you be interested in representing the students in the IT committee meetings?” Seems most of the senate recommended me since I do so much around the campus with tutoring, developing student websites, troubleshooting dorm computers and such, and words gotten around. Being president of the WebDev club here sure didn’t hurt either.

Not sure what the job entails yet, other than sitting in on a high level college meeting with profs, deans, and REALLY geeky faculty every other friday, but being a representative for the ENTIRE student body for anything is worth giving it a shot, and sure won’t hurt the ol’ resume.

My son Robert moved with his wife and daughter to Spokane, Washington a couple of weeks ago. Before he left, he started talking to the local Army recruiter. Seems he is planning on going in, and has lost 15 pounds, a few inches around, and started running a mile everyday. Looks like he is really serious about it, and he has, shall we say, some “interesting” plans. Seems he wants to be a combat engineer, which means he’s going to learn to blow stuff up. Unfortunately, since we’re in the middle of a war, he may see real action, real soon, once fully trained. I’m proud of him for joining up, and hope he makes his goals…

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