A good Saturday at the shop -- Dave and Nate were there for the class (with an enthusiastic bunch of students this time around), with Josh helping out. Thanks to all the shop volunteers, we now have our graduate machines for the current class ready to go, including a few spares for "just in case". Dan A. was able to spend his time on getting some of our more valuable "sale-able" donations ready to be sold online. Matthew, a new volunteer, also took on the chore of sorting out and organizing the shelf storing CD-ROM, CD-RW, and DVD drives. (Nice!) A friend, Matt P., also came into the shop to help with triaging donated equipment, leading to a bit of humor about Matt/AT&T -- seems that Matt works for AT&T; Matthew works for AT&T, and he heard about ByteWorks from a guy named Matt who works with AT&T, but not the other Matt. Bill and Keith also pitched in.
On the agenda for next week: a W.I.T.S. run!! The stack of hardware with orange tags is threatening to take over the shop area soon (not to mention the monitors in the basement that got caught in the sewage pipe spill a few months ago). Jennie has a truck; if she can't make it next Saturday, Dan A. can also get us a truck, provided he gets some advanced notice. Other fun stuff for next week: keep triaging donated equipment; make a few low-end Ubuntu computers to put in the shop window for sale as $99 computers; more work on sorting/organizing the shop; there are two huge bins of hard drives that need to have Robert's "size/wipe" script run on them; and probably many other things I'm not thinking of right now. Doc, our weather is being "St. Louis-style" -- meaning, 70s today, but sleet and snow tomorrow!! We still miss you, and will be very glad when you are back! See you all next week, Theresa
