I have decided that I might as well join the Blogging World, not that anyone will want to see my site. But if you decide to come here maybe some of the things that I talk about will interest you. This is mostly about Technology, Life, and Relationships.
Since I may be looking for a better opportunity in the near future you can find my resume here.
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Submitted by kwoodward on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 20:27
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If the truth would be known, i have been apprehensive over the last several weeks about quitting teaching. I am now comfortable with the decision and I have let my class know that I am bowing out of teaching and letting my two compatriots take over. I have been teaching this Sunday School class for the last 9 and a half years. You would think that I would want to give it a rest. I really didn't know that there was a problem, pride, that would cause the Lord to want me off of the team. Perhaps I have learned as much as I can learn or maybe he has another spot for me or, maybe he wants me to give it a rest. I think the latter is true. Now with only two classes left, I can concentrate on learning some lessons from the Lord. It will also give me a chance to be in better contact with my wife, whom I have been neglecting over these last few years. I have a chance now of seeing what we need to do to get her back to Church on a regular basis. At the moment, that is one of the more important things that I can do.
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Submitted by kwoodward on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 00:58
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Just as I expected, I was shot down when we entered the mall and I asked her if I could buy an iPad if they had them in stock. However she did have a valid point in that the iPad was just released and it might be better to wait until they get all of the bugs out. But right now I am more interested in getting Robot parts to build a spiderbot with my grandson. That part we haven't discussed yet. My grandson will be continuing on the BotBall competitions and I want to make sure his programming skills are up to the task.
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Submitted by kwoodward on Sat, 07/10/2010 - 15:50
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 This has been a great experience in my life. I have been with a great group of high school students which includes my grandson. Today is the start of the double eliminations. We start in the 41 bracket and our school is in the 23rd bracket. We have a good chance at placing high enough that we will make the final competition on Sunday which will include the last eight brackets. The guys are excited and I am excited about the prospects. To put this in perspective, there are about 65 teams at the Global Conference on Educational Robotics being held at the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Our team came out 3rd overall out of about 55 teams at the regionals in DC. We are now with the best of the best in the country, and since this is an international competition we have one team from Kuwait and two teams from Poland. The competition is friendly and ideas for designs have been passing back and forth freely between teams. |
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Submitted by kwoodward on Mon, 07/05/2010 - 12:05
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Since things have settled down at work, I have decided to take my name off of the job market. I am starting to warm up to the work that I have been assigned on an Army program, and I seem to be getting caught up on a different project that has been going on for the better part of 8 years in a maintenance mode. I realize that I may be taking my future in my hands at this point but I think that maybe the Lord is wanting me to rethink my position at this point. Anyway, I am about to remove my name from the pool of people on several job related web sites at this point. Time will tell whether this was a good move or not.
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Submitted by kwoodward on Mon, 07/05/2010 - 04:37
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Well, time to think about the trip out to Illlinois with the BotBall team. In a little over 24 hours, I will be carpooling with the BotBall teacher to drive 5 guys out to the Conference. If you would like to know what is going on here, go to http://www.botball.org and look at the information. It looks like my grandson and I will be taking the Prius with the robots and the teacher will be taking 4 other team members. The trip will be about 13 hours and I will keep you posted. |
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Submitted by kwoodward on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 01:18
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 I am finally back from my vacation with my daughter and son-in-law at Massanutten. Over all, I really liked the facility. It's too bad that it could not have been for another week. I was just getting used to the place. I went kayaking down the Shannandoah river and flipped the kayak twice. I will post pictures here and on my Facebook page when I get the pictures developed (I was using a water tight disposable camera on the river). That was an adventure. I also had the opportunity to hike up the ridge line from Massanutten almost to the area where the ski slopes are at. I didn't want to have to climb down the ski slope because it is a double black diamond slope, a little too steep. So I went half way on the ridge and then came back the same way. In all, I spent about three hours on the peak. My wife and I got a chance to sit in the jacusi on the last night of our stay, that felt real good. |
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Submitted by kwoodward on Sun, 07/04/2010 - 01:14
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At the moment, I am typing this on a bluetooth keyboard. I decided that since I was not going to be purchasing an iPad that i would at least make it possible to key in a lot of information into my iPhone. In short, I am finding that the keyboard works a whole lot faster than typing on the tiny keypad that comes up on the iPhone screen. That should be obvious to anyone who is a touch typist. I have been a touch typist ever since I graduated high school some 40 years ago. Cool, now I can blog a little more eloquently and hopefully I will have more to say than the simple tomes that I have provided thus far.
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