Meeting: LANDAC

Today, attended LANDAC (Local Area Network Decision Action Committee) meting with Karen Sorensen. Topics of the meeting inlcuding status of: WAN, Workstation deployments, VLAN project, Security, Server Upgrades, and other misc items. A presenter, Brad Billison (Microsoft Rep) came in and shared information about new Microsoft products coming out, etc. It was a very informative meeting.

Meeting/Tour: Mill Creek Regional Plant

Today I toured the construction site at the Mill Creek plant, with Susan Pekarek and Matt Bond. The plant is currently receiving an upgrade to transform it from a 9MGD lagoon based system to a 19MGD activated sludge system. I also attended a building update meeting onsite.
Here's an old(2002) site picture:

Flash Development: Match game

I developed a match game in flash. it's based off of a template, but I made the cards pictures of my tour of the Wastewater plants.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/ryanmetcalfdotnet/JCW/matchgame.swf

Here's a Screenshot:

Event: Paycheck

Got paid.
$2,808
covers through a little part of August

Flash Development: Wastewater Quiz

Although partially comleted, here is the Wastewater "quiz" application/flash. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/ryanmetcalfdotnet/JCW/quiz-main2.swf I would like to link the questions to some sort of database so adding questions and/or changing questions is a breeze (no pun on Macromedia)

Here's a screenshot:

Meeting: KCMAGWEB

Attended my second KCMAGWEB meeting, this time at MARC (Mid-America Regional Council) in downtown KC. Todays topic was online surveys and the prize given out was an XBOX game, again donated by Microsoft.

Project: PC Audit

Jim was out of the office today so he had me start collecting information for the Wastewater Audit. I needed to collect serial model numbers on PC's, Laptops, Monitors, PocketPC's, etc. Also spent some time working on the computers I was "imaging"

Meeting: Engineering and Collections Meeting

Today I went to the Nelson plant with Aaron Witt (JCW Engineer) and Jeff Doggett (JCW Engineering Tech.) for a meeting concerning the Engineering and Collections group. This group covers general system issues, odor complaints, and other items of similar nature. Members are made up of people from the Operations & Maint. and Engineering Departments.

Here's a couple of pictures of the Nelson Complex that I took on my tour weeks before:


Did you know?
That the above picture is a trickling filter, the dark objects are bacteria covered rocks, which help with the treatment process.

Meeting: "El Projects" Meeting

This afternoon I attended the "El Projects" meeting, which is for Engineers doing existing infrastructure projects to come and present progress, etc.

Project: Macromedia Flash

Today I finally managed to get Wastewater's copy of Macromedia Flash Professional to Activate. This required several days of waiting, then several hours of calling Macromedia Tech Support. We upgraded to MX 2004 for PC from a Flash 5 for Mac Licesnse, we don't even have a mac. I can now start Flash projects, which will appear here as: Flash Devlopment: (Headline).

Project: History Images

Today I was given images for the history project to scan. Many pictures showed construction of the original JCW plant and early sewer lines. Early sewer lines were made of V.C.P. (Vitrified Clay pipe) Today, plastic composites, cement, etc are what make our new pipes.

Event: Lunch at Royals Stadium Club.

Today I visited the Royals Stadium Club resturant with Randy Robinson (JCW Adminstration dept Administrator), Carolyn Mounce (JCW Human Resources), and Rosann Lucas (JCW, my mentor). It was a fun event.