23-26 August 07

Hey Ya'll

The Thursday and Friday seemed to fine. On Thursday, I got my first check from my project. Now it was just for one week because of the pay period. My next check will have a two week check. I just been working on these two Dell Dimension's and cleaned them up. One is complete and the other I am about to re-install the OS and make sure that everything is cleaned up. These two PC's aren't that important because they are like a few years old and we are not going to use them. Also, there was this Dell Optiplex in the Finance office that wasn't booting up. The PC worked fine a couple of days ago before the problem occurred, but after the Finance lady came back, there was an issue. I suspected the PC's power supply, popped a new power supply in her machine and the computer booted up fine. Now I am awaiting a new power supply for her Optiplex. As far as that Optiplex GX520 PC that I have been working on since the first day I got there, I replace two more parts. It seems to be running fine, but the time seems to be off. Not sure what the issue is there. On Thursday, I got to test drive the company van. Ed and I took it out to Westminster and it seemed to drive fine. I'm just not used to driving anything that big. I also had dinner with the BVS/BRF unit. Earl, the orientation unit leader, invited me to have dinner with them and join them for their evening session. That was an enjoyable evening. On Friday, still continued to stay busy in the office. I checked out the UPS (uninterruptible power supply) that we are going to install in our offices. Then I did some more cable labeling in the warehouse. After that, Francie took me to the New Windsor bank so I can open an account there and cash my check. I just decided to throw my check in my checking account rather than cash the whole thing. On Saturday, the biggest thing I did was go grocery shopping at Safeway. I met another cool person named KJ, who now lives directly across from me, and he is also a tech. Actually, he is more of a programmer. On Sunday, I decided to go hang out with the older people in Old Main. Sunday is there game night and we played this card game where you have to come up with different types of words with the number of cards you have. Then some of us played domino's, and the others played this golf card game. It was a real enjoyable evening and it makes me look forward to it next week. That was my last four days.

Jay,
BVSer, Unit 275