Since I was organizing my new-to-me car, I decided to be more diligent about tracking the maintenance.  I found a template in Google Drive that looked pretty good, but I wanted to track my fuel purchases as well.  And, since I was going to do that, I decided I needed a way to put the data in the spreadsheet while I am in my car at the gas station.  So with some editing and input from my friend, Amanda, who is more familiar with the formulas and functions, I have a spreadsheet that meets my needs! Woot!

Now, when I’m at the gas station, I can take out my phone and click a bookmark

that opens the form which will put the data into my spreadsheet.

The next step is to get the form to return some information, like “Your next _____ will be due in ____ miles.”

The first time I was in college I didn’t put a lot of effort in to my classes. I mean, I did all the assignments, participated in class discussions, and generally performed well enough. I never tested very well, though, often getting poorer scores than the people I helped, but I was ok with that. Ok enough to not read the text books or learn how to study for tests. Until my senior year when I started Organic Chemistry. I got through the first term with my normal habits and received a B, but, by the second week of the second term, I knew I was in trouble! I dropped out and started over, even auditing the first term again. And this time, I used every resource available and learned how to STUDY!  Crazy!  I worked so hard at it, I couldn’t part with any of my materials … Until now.  Here are too many photos for anyone else to be interested in, but it was pretty significant for me.

The text book. Which I read, highlighted and wrote in:

The study guide for the text book. Which I read and did the activities in.   WOW.

My notebook, which held all my notes and completed activities.

My lab notebook.

The lab book.

This was an optional text to support with the lab. It was fun and easy to read and SO HELPFUL!

Several years ago, a friend of mine found this at a garage sale. Since I was playing with leather at the time, she got it thinking of me.  Some of the parts for the wallet I made for my husband came from this kit. I am working on finishing projects and reducing my supplies, so eventually, this kit will be used up and then I’ll probably recycle the box somehow, but I wanted to document it for posterity.  It’s a pretty comprehensive kit! And the cover illustrations crack me up.

I actually still feel guilty for recycling this.  I was involved in high school theater for my senior year and was really just a stage hand – never leading material.  The theater people were relatively accepting of me and I got to go to a couple parties, one of which was spent transcribing Monty Phython’s Holy Grail.  It was fun to contribute to the arguments around dialog, background comments, and especially how to type certain sound effects.  I do not know if this was my copy, or the only copy, but it was time to let it go.  I apologize if it was the only one …

“The Script, of The Soundtrack, of The Movie, of the Python Presentation, of The Retelling of the Great Classic, of The Myth, of The Legend, of The Unproven Hearsay, of The See Webster’s Dictionary for the Definition of the Above – Better Known as…

(Alias)(Wik) *(Da Duh Da Daaaaa)*

MONTY PYTHON AND THE MOST HOLY GRAIL

(and we really mean it)

(also also wik)

— the strictly unofficial script of the movie, done in a fit of boredom by a whole lot of people– touched up again by Ralph the Wonder Llama (How time flies), and Svend’s Moose.

Assorted above silliness, commentary, and editing by Timothy ‘Tronic a.k.a. Andrew Mansfield”

When I was in high school the “Computer Science” class was mostly about using WordPerfect and Excel (or what would become Excel). We ended up making ourselves a manual for all the different correspondence and forms we would need to use with the appropriate formatting. I wrote some silly things in here, so was holding on to it.  But I don’t need it and recycled it recently.

These pictures are really for me, but everyone’s welcome to read them sideways!