Not munch to report about today. Slept in with Boo, washed and ironed my clothes for the week, chores around the house, took the recyclables to Twisp, shopped for groceries, back home and vegged the rest of the day. My kind of a Saturday.
I have to drive back down to Moses Lake tomorrow so I can be up at 3:00 AM Monday morning and drive the roads. Ugh. How many more weeks of winter are there going to be where I’ll have to do this.
Today is the International Halocaust Remembrance Day.
Today is a good day to remember Sir Nicholas Winston, Gino Bartali, Irena Sendlerowa, Chiune Sugihara, Oskar Schindler, and the all the others whose names may be forgotten, but their acts of bravery and compassion will never be.
Yesterday, while I was scrolling through Facebook, I felt very discouraged by all the divisiveness and vitriol contained in the posts and memes from both sides of the political divide. I myself am a bleeding-heart liberal and proud of that. As a Catholic and a believer in Christ’s message of love, I believed we are all called to love one another and not judge. I know that any of my friends or family that read this will snicker – they often tell me that I’m one of the most militant people they know and that I can be very condescending, but that’s one of my many flaws.
Perhaps, we should stop to consider the opposing view without immediately dismissing it.
Ugh! This week is going by so slowly. Up at 3 again, drove the roads, checked-in with my boss, spent a couple hours at the gym, followed by an hour at Starbucks studying.
Yesterday I completed my application for Gonzaga’s MBA program; I hope to be accepted and enroll for this fall’s term. Fingers crossed. I still have 18 courses to complete in the next term at WGU, but I’m confident that I can get ‘er done.
The Gonzaga MBA program takes two years for part-time students and I’d have to drive up to Spokane twice a week to attend class at night.
My boss has asked me to take a leading roll in this year’s 12th Annual Columbia River Technician Conference. This is a two-day event that’s held at the Columbia Basin Technical Institute (CB Tech) which is next to the Moses Lake Schoold District Transportation Department (both are right off I-90 in Moses Lake).
This is a beautiful campus and offers vocational training for the region’s high school students.
Every year, one of the three bus vendors is responsible for recruiting companies and teachers to offer training classes that pertain to pupil transportation. We’re a little behind on getting things off the ground, and that’s probably why I’ve been asked to take a lead, but we’ll get a great program put together here in the next couple of weeks.
I’m working on designing a logo for the association and setting up a website. I will start on the promotional material once I have a better idea what classes will be offered. I also need to get bids out for food and make sure local hotels will offer the government rate for rooms. The dates are Thursday, August 11th, and Friday, August 12th (my birthday).
There wasn’t a very good turnout for last year’s conference. I’m going to work on targeting Superintendents more than Transportation Supervisors and shop leads.
This is my first drawing from the photo of the “mammoth” water tender. Since the only picture I have to work off is at an angle, the proportions are skewed. I need to either take another photo straight on, or I need to sketch a new proportional mammoth (I think I’ll do the later).
I have an idea to have this design silkscreened in white onto red t-shirts to raise money for the Okanogan County Fire District #6. I would like not get around a dozen shirts printed for the March 12th firefighter stairclimb in Seattle.
Today is the first day this year that the buses are running on time and I was able to go to the gym this morning for a couple of hours and now I’m at my local Starbucks relaxing for a couple minutes before having to go into work. My boss said I could come in at 9:00 AM this morning and I decided I’d take him up on that.
Just as I suspected, school today, albeit a two-hour late start. Why is it always the days I want to go home early to Winthrop are the days school runs? 🙂
Yesterday was a bit surreal with all the ice; I felt like I was on Hoth (Star Wars fans will know what I mean).
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I am beginning to see a lot of the “Vote Yes for Schools” signs around Moses Lake. There’s only 22 days until the day of the vote. Fingers crossed.
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Last night, I sat down at Starbucks and took my pre-assessment for Introduction to Probability and Statitics and I’m happy that I got 76% (well above the 61% cutoff).
I hope to speak to my course mentor this morning and get approval to take the assessment over the weekend. Statistics has been my albatross this term.
There was a restaurant/deli in the Fauntleroy district of West Seattle back in the early 2000s that I enjoyed going to. This establishment was short-lived (probably stemming from how unpleasantly the owner/operator treated his patrons), but I really liked the business’s name (and logo) and it struck me to do a quick search online and see whatever happened to the business. It turns out all I could find was a couple online articles from the Stranger – nothing else. It’s been at least 15 years since the business folded and I wondered if any other business was using the same same so I decided to do some investigating.
First, I searched to see if the domain name was available – it is, then I went onto the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) to see if there’s any trademark associated with this business name and there’s not.
Now all I’m left with is, do I want to register this domain?
