Happy Spring!  It seems like it is finally here.  The days have been so nice that all I have wanted to do is be outside...except for...the semester is winding down and there is tons to do!  So I hope everyone is making progress with their project.  I have to take some time to really sit down and work on mine!  I just finally got a huge deliverable done for my Thursday night class so now my focus is this class.  Just wanted to do a quick post with well wishes for success on your project! 

It has been a while since I have "blogged".  I found myself very frustrated after class Tuesday night.  I left the lab portion of class with making little to no progress into the lab.  For whatever reason the computer I was working on did not want to seem to work.  I was receiving no blue or green squiggly lines (which I KNOW there should have been) and IntelliSense would not kick in.  Dr. Haines said it must have been a "hiccup" of VB on that machine and to try another computer.  So I moved computers and when I opened up my solution/project nothing would populate.  Needless to say...I gave up!  I was also frustrated overall in that I didn't really understand what we were doing...the last couple of weeks I have been struggling...especially with this whole concept of libraries and classes, etc.  I wish our book had some information on this because the powerpoints from class are not cutting it!  I think it is time to do a little research online and see what additional information I can find..something..anything that will help me understand a bit more.

On a brighter note...We had a wonderful weekend.  It was my birthday yesterday so my parents came down from Duluth for the weekend and we got to just hang out and relax (something that Kris and I haven't been able to do for a while seeing we have been working on the basement).  I haven't seen my parents since Christmas so it was wonderful to have them here.  We also had a bunch of other family over on Saturday including my niece and nephew.  They are getting so big!  They turn 1 in just a little over a month and I just can't believe how fast time has gone by.  Also, in mentioning the basement...It is DONE!!!  We finished up pretty much everything a couple weekends ago before my best friend and her husband came down for the weekend.  Then in the last couple of weekends we have been completing all the finishing touches; carpet, shelves, furnishings, etc.  IT IS GREAT!!!

Anyways..back to homework.  Just finished my reading and now off to work on my GUI and Use Case.  Then maybe I take another look at the Lab...maybe...

Happy Easter everyone!  Hope everyone is having an enjoyable day and is able to spend some time with family. 

I am just sitting here working on Assignment #3 thinking to myself that I don't know what happened to the last week.  I can't believe that Spring Break is already over.  I had such good intentions to get so many things done.  From one perspective we got A LOT done on the basement (which is good seeing that carpet is being installed Wednesday), on the other hand besides the basement work, I got nothing accomplished.  The week just flew by.  The next couple of weeks are going to be crazy too!  We have quite a few detail items to finish in the basement, work has been crazy lately, and we have guests coming from Duluth the next 2 out of 3 weekends, which includes my parents who have not been here since Thanksgiving so we want to have the basement completely done by the time they come down.  Lots of pressure!

Just wanted to drop a quick line...see you in class Tuesday!

Mara :)

So...took the midterm yesterday.  It was okay..  There were a couple of questions that my mind just went blank on.  I don't think I did horrible, but I am not necessarily excited to see my results.  On some positive weekend notes;  We FINALLY finished tiling (well not me...but my husband!).  The first tile went up New Year's Day and it has been a non stop process since then (I am betting that Kris wished he wouldn't have build such a big shower and bathroom!).  But it is done and it is all really starting to come together.  As soon as our shower door comes in we will have a fully functioning 2nd bathroom.  

And better yet...my niece and nephew were in town.  The family is moving back to the Waukesha area after spending the last five or so years in Chicago so Mom and Dad were out house shopping and we hung out with the kids.  I just can't believe how quickly they are growing up!  I don't even want to imagine what it will be like when I have my own kids!  I must say that a weekend can't get much better than that (minus the whole Midterm thing)!

Nothing really exciting to update on...still working on the basement and have even more white paint in my hair after this weekend!  I went to my hairdresser last weekend and she started working on my hair and promptly asked me if I had been painting recently.  I said yes.  She aid "I can tell...you have white paint in your hair!"  Oh well! 

Completed assignment #2 the other day.  Seemed to go quite well.  I am sure that there was a more efficient way to complete my coding, but all in all everything worked and I was very pleased! 

Interested to see what the midterm brings.  Spent some time this weekend at the library going through the chapters again and reviewing the lectures and my notes.  I am a little scared after having taken Dr. Haines' pretest at the beginning of the semester, but we'll just have to see!  I was excited to read that there are some opportunities for bonus points as I will take advantage of whatever I can get!  Have been doing some thinking about what I am going to do for my project and have some ideas.  I just want it to be something that is useful so hopefully something great will develop from there. 

Anyways...see you all in class tonight!

Good luck to all on the midterm! 

Happy Valentine's Day All!

A huge thank you to Dan who spent a few hours after class Tuesday night walking me through the entire download process for Visual Studio!  Now I am able to get to VB without a drive to campus! 

THANK YOU!

I don't think that I am meant to have VB on my computer!  Thank you to Dan who helped me resolve my downloading problems.  I was able to successfully burn the information to the 2 CD-ROMs and have also downloaded IsoBuster to my computer and everything seems to be in place.  The extracts have run...I can access the files on my computer, but wouldn't you know it, when I try to run the setup I get this an error saying that I have reached my install limit!  Go figure!  It then goes on to state that it may be possible that none of the installs were succesful, but either way I have reached my limit!  Yes, I have attempted multiple times, but nothing has seemed to work!  Looks like it is time to either break down and buy the CDs or plan on spending a lot of time on campus in the labs!  I typically have not thought of myself as being ignorant when it comes to computers, but after this weekend I am beginning to doubt myself!  Other than spending about 5 hours over the course of the weekend unsuccessfully trying to install VB I had a rather productive weekend.  I spent most of the hours this weekend painting (if you look close on Tuesday I will probably still have paint in my hair and on my hands!  Oil paint just does not come off!)  My husband and I are in the process of finishing off our basement (have been for almost a year now) and we are finally getting to a point where we are seeing an end in sight, we even talked about going and purchasing carpet sometime soon! 

Before...

Today...