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Another week in the books, should I get extra credit?

Another week has come and gone.  I think I kept up well with the school work.  I am current on all  my classes, though now I have some work to do for the coming week.  I've also been doing some paying work this week, which is good for a change.  Doing some Autocad drafting, not Revit, but it is work. Read this to see my comments about the work.

The kids had their pinewood derby this weekend that was postponed from the previous weekend due to the weather.  This year we had two kids doing the derby.  They both did well, each car doing better than the previous years cars.  Check out a couple of the videos.



Tomorrow is soccer with the fun pickup group.  I hope we have a better turn out than last weeks total of five people.

After that I have some network drops to run in the house.  I'll be going into the crawlspace to run some Cat5e Plenum cable to the four Minecraft junkies computers.  Hopefully having them wired vs. wireless will reduce some of their "lag" issues.  Today I changed the two phone outlets in the kitchen to one network drop.  I wonder if Mr. Robinson will give me extra credit for my NET 110 class?  Thanks Zach for loaning the tools and giving me the cable, RJ45 jack and RJ45 ends for the cable.




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