Well today was get all the homework done day. In my Project Management Class we are using Microsoft Project. It isn't a bad program and I seem to be catching on with it pretty good. The only thing I hate is that they have us doing all kinds of minor detail stuff, to get us to exercise the program. Just like all Microsoft Programs, there are several ways to do the same thing and I am always worried about doing something dumb that will cause me to make a minor mistake with the assignment. So far I have been getting everything right though.

After that it was, hit the discussion boards. In both my Facilities Design and Management Class and my Operations Management Class I have the same instructor. He loves to use discussion boards. I wiould rather do it in live chat like we do with the Industrial Safety Manager's course. Anyway in the one class we have been discussing outsourcing as well as lack of technology gains in third world countries.

We have had some very interesting discussions about that. I believe that you can outsource the easy stuff, but when we make technological gains, we have to go in and entirely retrain the workforce. I believe that this will at least slow down some of the outsourcing in the future. As the technology gains grow outsourcing decreases until they catch up, then it increases again.

. In the other class we have been discussing Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and ISO certifications. Kind of boring there.

Well I wonder if I will make it until the Pope's Funeral tonight. They are going to start broadcasting it at Midnight on Fox News. I guess it actually starts at 1AM, so I hope I can stay awake that long. Since I hurtt my back I have adjusted my sleeping hours and seldom stay up late like I used to.

Ma RWO called again from Sacramento. She says she is bored. I guess she has toured just about everything she could tour there, and wants to come home. I guess she also misses her dogs. I know they miss her. Phillippe, her oldest one has been sitting on the stairs looking out the window since she left. He only leaves when he has to go out and do is nature thing and to eat. He is really depressed.

I can't believe all the crap I have been seeing about folks being upset because the President is having the flag flown at half mast, because of the death of the Pope. It makes me wonder how low can some of the people in this country go. The Pope is a Head of State, though the Vatican is a small country. When a Head of State passes on the President has the authority to have the flag raised to half mast. Get over it secularists. The more I see this stuff come out in the press, the more I see that the radical left is going to die out. Why, you might ask? It is because day after day, this stuff gets into the press and ticks off more and more people who usually are not involved in politics. Don't forget, what happened to John Kerry when the conservatives started to wake up and say, "what is happening to my country?"