Lets see I went to the beach and got a longboard (a type of skateboard) to use to get around instead of walking all the time plus it will be my souvenir from Hawaii so it doubles as both to me. I went to two malls and Waikiki beach it was beautiful and really nice! I picked up a few things for home and that was my weekend.
Monday and Tuesday I had some meetings and such and worked on putting different things together really random odds and ends that needed to get done.
These past few days have been very productive. Yesterday I spent the day using GIMP (a free version of Adobe Photoshop) to put together a cover page for the sponsorship package that I am working on, in order to upgrade their current package. I spent the day looking through photo files and piecing together images for the cover page. While doing that I drew up some rough sketches of what I wanted the information packages for sponsors to look like. Corrie and Lenny ended up taking me out to eat at this place called 3 Stars, it was very delicious and it was a good change of pace instead of just grabbing lunch from a place near the office and eating lunch at my desk or outside.
Today I started off putting together the first page of the information packet for sponsors and then I realized I needed some data and needed some past files from the companies history to put together some graphs and numbers in the package. Corrie was busy at the time so I went to working on some upgrades for the homepage for hawaiiroc.org that Lenny and I had talked about. The idea he came up with was having a notebook page on the homepage with a question for visitors of the page for submission. I worked with GIMP to make an image of a notebook page with a pen and pencil on it (no shadows yet as I am still teaching myself how to do that!) and over the image I edited the html code to make a comments box for answers to the question How would you use robotics to improve our world? to be submitted to our email. The comments box works and all the coding works just fine the problem I ran into is although the image showed up in the editing section for the webpage when you go to view the real page the image is invisible. I tried a few other tricks to try to get the image to appear but nothing worked so after a few hours searching for answers on google I gave up for the day and emailed their webmaster to ask him for some help. So hopefully that all gets figured out I have some other plans for updated to the webpage so if you check it out at hawaiiroc.org be sure to look for the minor updates I'll be applying! When Corrie was free later in the day I talked to her about getting past data and she found where the files were stored and had me copy them to my computer to be able to search through and find. I also delivered some things that needed to be signed in the afternoon. A bit later I helped Lenny set up some apps on his phone for later use, as I have become the IT guy, and then I imported some contacts into their newsletter system and that was about it for the day.
Tomorrow I will be working on the news letter with Corrie again like last friday to be sent out to over a thousand contacts. While last week I wrote all of the articles and had her do some checks to make sure everything was ok before Lenny check over it and gave his go ahead for the email to be sent. This week I'll be writing the weekly news letter again but this time Corrie is going to walk me through the last few steps of how to send it out and send the link to their twitter all at the same time because next Friday she will be gone so I'll be doing all on my lonesome. Well its probably going to be a early quitting day tomorrow in the office to get a head start on the three day weekend!
I wish everyone a happy Memorials Day! and a Long and Happy Weekend!
Mahalo,
Travis
Here are some pictures to enjoy as well!
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