Tonight was the big KASH kickoff meeting. KASH (Kokomo Area Schools at Home) is the local home school group. The kickoff usually features a speaker or two and many booths promoting everything from colleges to more kid oriented activities like a local martial arts school. You get to mingle with other home school parents and encourage each other. Mind you the beginning of the school year does not need as much encouraging as the middle of the year but usually a good time is had by all. Several of our local church attendees are home schooling so we saw a few familiar faces. The wife signed up to man a booth promoting awareness of the Charlotte Mason method of teaching. This is too detailed of a subject to go into here so I will leave it up to you to google it if you want further details. The wife does organize a monthly club discussing this method which is usually held at the nearby Starbucks.
I had nothing but trouble at work today. I had worked some over the weekend so I did not anticipate coming in this morning and having tons of emails that might have come in but when I arrived there was a note on the door indicating that the network was down in the building. I recalled that I had a meeting at 9 with several people in EMEA (an acronym for Europe / Middle East / Asia) and I was supposed to host a demonstration. With no network this was not possible. I made a few calls and found someone else who could back me up while I was just going to dial into the call to answer any questions. I drove down the road to a former place of employment to use their network but when I turned on my laptop I was met with a blue screen. It was not THE blue screen of death but blue nonetheless. It indicated that it was doing some sort of data dump due to some cryptic problem. This took about 45 minutes to complete but eventually worked. I listened into the call and was able to get the laptop up and going about half way through the call. When the call was over I confirmed the network was back up and going at the office and headed back. My laptop again appeared that it would take 45 minutes to boot up and I was supposed to host (yet another) demo in approximately 55 minutes. I called another person who was going to be in the call and explained the situation. We tried to make it work but in the end once the laptop was up, everything was crashing left and right. I dreaded calling the help desk but I did not see that I had an option. I was able to get a backup of my key files just in case and then dialed the 800 number for our help desk. I navigated the options and finally got to a live person who had me run a diagnostic which ultimately led to the conclusion that my RAM was bad. She passed me off to the hardware manufacturer and they are supposed to come out tomorrow with more RAM. I was able to boot up in Safe Mode and eek out the rest of the day (at the lovely 640 x 480 resolution that Safe Mode uses). I could get to email and to IM so all was not lost. I just felt as though the day was a total loss though.
When I arrived home the wife presented me with her first attempt at homemade salsa. Saturday our neighbor flagged us down in the back yard and gave us lots of fresh picked (like 5 minutes before) vegetables. The wife had all the ingredients for salsa except cilantro and lime juice but after buying those items today she mixed it up. I have not had that much fresh salsa in my life but this tasted about like the few that I have tried. Not too bad for a first attempt and the price was right.
Well it is late since the KASH meeting went until about 9. I did want to point you to the son's new blog site (after I accidently locked the xanga account out that I was using for him).
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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