I changed themes yesterday and now need to be on the hunt for a pic to reside at the top, this will be the question of the day.
The training class I am required to attend this week (making up the two days I missed) is the same training class we received last year. Same book/information, same everything. I did not take me long to catch up with the rest of my coworkers.
That was the good thing about yesterday. Other than class the rest of the day was spent catching up on work sent to me via email from my former group, working on their issues. I say former group but in actuality it is my current group with me assigned other duties while I still take care of everything I left. Ya, two jobs, two desks and no increase in compensation. Lucky I enjoy work
No blender till the weekend 13hr days till class is over.
I have class all week! I thought this was not until next week. Great now I am 2 days behind and have a boat load of work to do in order to get caught up with SOW’s (statements of work) from my other group. Hopefully I will be able to get it all done in the morning, catch up in class and finish things up this afternoon. Boi this will be cutting it close.
When it rains it pours as the saying goes. All is well and last week I started not feeling well, more specifically, Friday afternoon. By Saturday I my throat was starting to hurt and the down hill spiral was starting. Strep is was and in bed I had to go. Working very closely with others it is never a good idea to go in contagious, everyone gets pissed. I took today and Monday off and feeling good now. Time to get the computer back on!
The ice and snow are gone and I have my dropbox files back, now it is back to work. Lately I have only been able to do any work at the office, getting in 3 hours before anyone else and use a stinking 32bit Dell that they call our ‘High-end’ Engineering computers.
Getting the dropbox files back turned out to be just a matter of un-linking the computer from dropbox while online and it set itself up again correctly. I don’t have a clue what went wrong but I am happy they are back.
Snow days were great when I was in grade school and just about as much fun when our factory shuts down but when you loose power because of ice storms you can’t do much of your own ‘fun’ work at home.
I was looking into fading out some text for the opening in some training videos for work and found a few that animated the material alpha or transparency for the fade out. Finding this using nodes to set up my materials presented a problem; I couldn’t find the transparency toggles. Well, using nodes I hunted and with a little trial and error found what I needed and this is the results of my experiments.
To start off with, the new computer was the easiest computer I have ever had to download and install all the programs I use on a daily basis. That includes registering setting up outlook. All in all it took approximately 4hrs start to finish.
Now the problem. For some reason all of my files in my dropbox folder are not visible. Nothing is hidden and I can see them when I am in, say MS Word or Excel and open them just fine. When I go to the folder I see nothing. Time to do a little trouble shooting. Incidentally, I am on my little macbook air now and I can see all my files within this computer.
By this time when I get home I should have a new computer. I purchased a new Alienware M17x R4 with 16gig memory, 1080p monitor, GTX680 Graphics Card, 1T HD and Blue Ray player/DVD burner. This computer is completely void of any software other than the operating system (Windows 7) so the weekend will be spent downloading/installing software. Boy what fun!
Not really sure what to do now. Am I going to upgrade my computer or get a new one possibly better at the same or lower price. Things to ponder today.
While I make that decision I am going to be splitting this site into multiple pages based on topics etc.. I am not too familiar with WordPress and how to do this however I am sure, with a little research I will be able to figure it out. Hey, I was able to get this WordPress working wasn’t I?
I received notification the lei I purchased and am having delivered to Desiree’ has shipped and will arrive as planned before 3:00pm today.
Tax return came and I am taking the time to upgrade my hard drive to 1TB, doubling the ram to 16gig (still have room to bump to 32gig) and changing the graphics card to an Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M that should come close to doubling the speed of my current computer. I’ll put the graphics card and old hard drive into an older model laptop I have (the power supply is more than adequate) giving me a second computer for just rendering out animations while I work on this new upgrade.
Fun times 🙂
New site covering miscellaneous activities including my favorite activity: Blender
