I graduated College from ITT-Tech today. I now have my Associates degree in computer networking. I will have pictures uploaded shortly. In the mean time, here is one picture of me and Kaleb (my nephew) after the graduation ceremony.
Yesterday I went with my dad on a business trip to Iowa. We went there, he did what needed done for about 2 hours, and we headed back. It is right about 6 hours from where we live and where we went in Iowa. So we did a 12 hour car trip in one day.
I drove about 370 miles of the trip. That is by far the most I have ever driven in a day. In fact, it probably even beats the most miles I have ever driven in a single week.
I am much overdue for an update on Kaleb Deck (my sister’s baby; my nephew). He is now 5 1/2 months old.
He is doing very well developmental wise. In fact, I sometimes think he may be advanced for his age, but I’m not fully sure of the developmental stages of babies either. Kaleb is really the first baby I have watched grow up, and even spent time and played with. So we are learning this whole growing up/developmental thing together.
Unfortunately since my sister and her husband Keith moved out we only get to really see Kaleb on the weekends, but we really enjoy the time we do get. The one cool thing about really only seeing him every weekend is to notice the changes he makes in just a week.
He literally has a new “trick” for us every week. The past couple of weeks he has discovered his voice (big time). He loves to scream, and make any noise he finds himself capable of. In fact, the other day he started to make a choking type noise that scared me half to death when I was watching him. Turns out, that is just one of his new “voices”.
He can now pretty much hold his own bottle and has even started eating solid baby food occasionally. He also loves to take sips of water out of my dad’s (his Grandpa) water cup.
I also think he is really close to learning to be mobile. He is capable of rolling over and has even pulled himself short distances across the floor for us a few times. Of course, by short distances I’m only talking like a foot, but that’s good enough for me! I am really looking forward to when he can crawl around. Hopefully that will be within the next few months.
He has also grown a huge interest in his surroundings. He actually watches our dogs move around now and reaches out for them sometimes. He watches TV, and absolutely loves to watch cars, especially semis, go down the road in front of our house.
His eye-hand coordination is excellent. He plays with toys, reaches for and grabs them himself, and has a good ole time entertaining himself with his toys. Of course, his best skill in this area is getting those things that his hands find into his mouth.
Laughing is the other big improvement over the last few weeks. He now will laugh at almost any silly thing we do. My mom (Grandma) loves to make faces and noises at him and Kaleb will just laugh away. Its very cute to watch.
I’ll wrap this up with a couple new pictures of Kaleb. These both were taken by my sister-in-law Kelly (Aunt Kelly to Kaleb) while he was at their house. They are lucky enough to have him almost daily for baby-sitting duties.
Well, yesterday was my last day of school!!! I have successfully completed my associates degree at ITT-Tech in Fort Wayne. The other good news is I also got a job this week working for Marathon Technology Group. Right now this is only like a part-time thing but I guess there is a good chance it will be full time in the near future. At least, I hope so.
As for graduation, I guess that isn’t until June 12th. So I guess I have three weeks between my final class and my graduation date. Not as bad as my high school one though, which was like 6-months between my last class and the graduation due to me finishing high school early.
One product I never thought I would find a use for, I have. I have used finger nail polish. No, not on my fingers, but on my mouse.
For the past few months my mouse has not been registering left clicks correctly. This made it very hard to use my computer. I really love my mouse though and didn’t really have the money to replace it. Well, today I decided to open her up to see if I could find the problem myself.
I actually was able to discover the problem. The plastic on the bottom of the button that presses the internal button to register the click, was partially warn down. There was basically a small gap in the plastic from where too much pressing had worn the plastic that normally pressed the button away.
To fix it I determined I had to fill in this gap with something. My first thought was super glue, but ours was all dried up. I searched the house for anything that might work. After looking through my mom’s desk, I discovered finger nail polish and thought that might work.
I applied a small dab of polish to the small gap on the mouse’s button and waited for it to dry (with the help of blowing some compress air on it).
To my surprise, at least to this point, my mouse now works perfect!!! I have given it a good 2-3 hours of use so far and it is still holding up. I kind of expect it wear away after a while, in which I might have to reapply some more polish to fix it again. Of course, eventually I will probably just invest in a new mouse.
Who would have thought finger nail polish would serve useful for fixing computer hardware?
