I started my new job at the NDMO (National Disaster Management Org) today. We moved downstairs in a really hot mostly empty room. Kensley took Mike's old computer leaving me without one until February, probably longer. This will have an impact doing research and dev on a software system that we can use to handle disaster data.
We have also lost our fast connection hopefully we can get that fixed and a whiteboard and a desk for me or I am sitting on the floor without a workstation. Here is to hoping for some office furniture and hardware to make working possible.
1pm
I just finished lunch and it is pouring outside and I am not sure what we can do at the office the way it is at the moment. Kensley is sick as well I really hope I don't catch his cold.
(20) Tuesday
Met with my school admin/tech people and the folks in Portland to do a Alma walk through for them to learn and see how the system works at a first glance. I gave them logins and they should try looking around the system. We don't have full system data loaded i.e. teacher email address, classes and students... so the system is not really to be used as is... but soon will be.
9:30am
Lucky me they let me pay them tomorrow for a chicken wrap today... hoping we get paid on the 21st so I can eat in town from time to time. Miss being able to have a pizza or a chicken wrap.
1pm
Going back to the NDMO and hopefully make some more design ideas work. No email from Peace Corps about the login to the small grants program.
4pm
I took Nik's and Fredlyn's advice Setup an account and now I can access the small grant forms.
Met up with Sam at Sakele and then went home and played FTL (faster than light) and crashed.
(21) Wednesday
5am
I really need to get a tooth fixed. Was trying to wait a bit but I think the time is fast approaching to get it dealt with before it starts hurting bad.
Maybe I will arrange to go next monday and it might be interesting to see if the NDMO has/had a conference in Vila. They said I was going to attend something there but nothing has happened yet.
Well I thought my counterpart about google drive, he seemed to like it. You can share files in one spot, not worry about losing it from a dying hard drive, auto saves, you can see who is working on it as the work on it, control privacy on the file. It is a great tool if you have internet that can support its use. Upload word docs though and converting them to google docs is a bit of work but worth it.
(22) Thursday
9am
Slow start today... just working on a design doc for the Disaster Management System that maybe one day coded by someone... not sure who yet. Using an app called gliffy and made some mock ups and a couple design docs. Fun tool for how much I enjoy drawing bubbles and lines connecting them and shading them, filling them with text and make it into a working model of an app.
2pm
Back to work... first half of the day I worked on designing some software using gliffy. Made a couple mockup screens and a UML diagram of some objects for the code. Second half of the day more diagrams and then play with some database designs.
(23) Friday
8:30am
Ready to continue building my designs and wireframes. I should make a DB design and then start mapping the business logic of each page and function.
Hopefully today we get paid I have 2vt to my PC name.
5:00pm
Finished with work and made a lot of new pages on my design. Now it is time to see if we got paid so I can eat some besides eggs.
(24-25) Saturday & Sunday
