As many of you know I have worked on computers for over 15 years now but I will tell you I am always looking for ways to improve on safety.  I found an article about How to Safely Install a Hard Drive and found it very interesting and very useful.  Of course I've done this many times, but for some people this is major undertaking.  If I had never installed a hard drive, these instructions would have been a great help to me.  I am always open to suggestions when it comes to computers and How to Safely Install a Hard Drive had some really great tips.

I often wonder how people come to be in the career that they are in.  I can tell you that I didn’t start out working on and around computers.  Now when I was a kid, I did like to take things apart and put them back together so now I can see where it would have been ideal for me to start in computers.  I actually start in the clerical or bookkeeping field because I liked working with numbers.  Big life change and I decided to do something else about 15 years ago.  All this brings me to the subject of teachers.  I work for a very large school district and yesterday the teachers ‘staged’ a one day walk.  Over half of the 1400 or so teachers didn’t show up for work.  Now the district pretty much handled it with ‘subs’ but the IT department was called upon to ‘fill’ in for some classes.  Ok now it gets really interesting.  I sat in a class yesterday with 8^th graders.  There were 11 at the beginning and then after parents checked out students I had about 8 for the remainder of the day.  It was fairly quiet.  We watched movies and made paper wads to throw in the trash can.  Yeah I know, I probably shouldn’t have but I’m not trained to teach and there were no fights and no one got hurt.  I made it through the day without any Prozac so I’m thinking I am so glad I didn’t want to be a teacher..LOL

I flip channels occasionaly much like I surf the internet.  I watch Nancy Grace sometimes because she makes a lot of sense.  I read an article that is All About Nancy Grace and have to admit I admire her even more after reading how she got started.  She really had plans for a much different life that didn't include television but at the age of 19, she lost her fiance to a violent murder and really took it upon herself to become an advocate for victim's.  You should read All About Nancy Grace, I think you will find it very inspiring.

Nanny's Trunk has some really great information on two year olds especially when they are playing on a swing set. Toddlers love to swing but there are some things that need to be taken into consideration when they are playing outside whether it is on a simple swing set, a play gym or even a trampoline. If you are a new parent or a new grandparent of a two year old you might want to read the article Two Year Old Kids on a Swing Set. This will give some great information and you might want to take the time to read some of the other interesting posts on this website.