I did the rest of the stuff for my class today. I started it on
Monday when the first class became available. There was a slideshow
with sound to watch talking about the first chapter of the text book,
and a quick example database to do some stuff to for homework. It was
about as easy as you can get. The video was about an hour long, which
isn’t bad. It was rather uninformative if you actually read the book,
but it is usefull to watch and see what the teacher considers important
to know. You can also download the slides from the presentation, and
the notes, so you have them while you watch/listen. I had them open and
typed a few more things into them while it was playing so I would have
them. Much easier than sitting in class and taking notes by hand. So
far it’s been a fine experience.
In other news, the job that I thought I would be doing for Kelly Services, and then didn’t think I would, and then thought would on friday, I may be doing on thursday. 🙂 It’s at Moore Wallace,
who does mailings for healthcare companies and other similar things.
I’m not sure what we’ll be doing, but I think it is basically stuffing
envelopes for 8 hours/day. Not bad for $9.50/hr. Plus it includes a
bunch of overtime. The only problem is that it is non-stop until the
job is done, with no days off, so I’ll be working on the 4th of July.
Normally I wouldn’t care, but Sabrina has a 4 day weekend, and now I’ll
be working from 2pm-10pm every day, so we can’t really do anything. The
job should be for about 16 days, so it’ll be close to $1500. Sabrina’s
father and I are both doing it, but I don’t know for sure if we’ll be
doing it starting tomorrow or not. We have to call in the morning and
see if they actually want us there at 2 or not. If not, we may end up
doing it for the 1st shift, 8am-3pm, starting friday. Or it could be
something completely different, we don’t know until we actually get a
confirmation.
I think we’re going to go to Maine for a week at the end of the
month too. We’re planning to go July 30th through August 5th, with 2
nights in Bangor, and the rest in Eastport, so I can see both my parents. We’re also planning to go to the Bangor State Fair.
I like to see the art exhibit that they have each year, and of course
the food. I don’t know if we’ll do any rides or not, but those are
sometimes fun too. We’ll also get to eat at Dysart’s,
which is a truck stop that is open 24 hours/day and has great food.
Breakfast is what’s best there, but the other stuff is good too.
They’re apparently known for their baked beans,
but I don’t eat them so I wouldn’t know. We were thinking about
bringing our bikes with us since it’s so nice to ride around there, but
it might be too much of a hassel. It’s hard to bring bikes on a long
trip and bring them in everywhere, and worry about someone stealing
them off the car or just having them fall off. We’ll see though.