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A pic from the trip to Dega last year.

The Spring race has come and gone and I had a wonderful time at this years event.

I took off of work that Friday so we can get an early start on the trip and get there early enough to set up camp and not interfere with any of the campers that have gotten there days before and believe me, there were alot of those. We arrived around 12pm and had no problem finding a place to pitch a couple tents.

Once we got set up and settled down, we had heard of s free concert that was being held in the park where we were camping that evening so it gave us something to do that night. We went and I met one of the drivers who would race in Saturdays Nationwide series, which I cant for the life of me, remember his name.

We got up Saturday and made the trip to the track which was about a mile walk from camp. Once we got there, we hit just about every vendor situated outside the track for free goodies and pictures with cars. We also played a bunch of car simulators which I think they had rigged because I didn’t do so well. Kept crashing the car. Saturday evening was a quite time at camp. I stayed around camp this year and chose not to wonder around like I have done in prior races. Hit the rack around 11pm.

Sunday, Race Day, everyone was saying that there is a 80% chance of rain so we all started fretting over the possibility of a rain delay. It did not rain a drop and we got to see a very good race. Kyle Busch won the race and Jeff Gordon finished a displeasing 19th.

We got back to camp after the race and started to break the camp down. Once we were finished, it was traffic free all the way to Troy. We got home around 11pm and I had to get right off to bed due to having to be at work the next morning at 7am. It made for a long day but I had fun talking about the good time I had all day.

Stay Tuned for news about the end of my Spring Semester.

I have finished my class in Motor Controls. I took my final exam on MOnday and passed with an 80. I would have had 100 but I messed up on two wires. I had to wire up a small motor through a contactor tha had thermal overloads and the contactor had to be sealed in. Well that seemed simple enough and I had no problem doing that. It was when the instructor wanted the motor to go through a proxomity switch that made this difficult. Not that going through a prox is difficuly but he wanted the motor to turn on when the start button is hit and when you activate the prox switch, the motor was to turn off.

Well the prox switch is a normally opened contact so when the start button was pressed, the motor would not run unless you activated the prox switch. This is just the opposite of what the instructor was looking for.

I had a guy next to me who was taking the test as well and he made a statement that he cheats through life and kepe asking me to show him what to do causing a major distraction for me. To make matters worse, the instructor gave a time limit of 45 minutes to complete this task.

After finding out that I had it wired backwards and the nagging persistance of the gentleman next to me, I finally ran out of time not thinking that all I had to do was run the control circuit through a solid state relay. He said I could come back and take the test again. I asked him what my grade was for the whole semester and he told me a 93.8. Thats an A in my book and I am still maintaining the 4.0 GPA that I yearn to keep.

I am now going through my final weeks in Philosophy and English Composition. Keep an eye out for updates as these classes will end in a couple of weeks.

God Bless!

I have been approved to take a trip to North Carolina and the Charlott area for schooling on Okuma Milling Machines. These are the machines that we have in our plant that put a smooth surface on some of our castings and they also drill and tap holes in these castings as well. They are very versitile and quite intimidating if you dont know what you are doing.

My Spring Semester finishes up on May 2nd and the Summer Semester begins on the 23rd. Ill be leaving for Charlott on May 17th and will be up there for a week. When I return, Ill have to get right into my classes here as I will be a day behind everyone else.

Fortunately for me, I have experience in both of the classes I will be taking this summer and it should not be a problem for me to miss the first day of class.

Another good thing about going to this class in Charlott is that I will recieve 3 college credits for attending it. I dont kow whether I will be able to apply this to my degree but I have my sources at the college I am attending now looking into it and hopefully I will be able to use these credits for my major. There is one class - Machining Technology that is a 6 credit class and I am hoping that I can use these credits I get in Charlott for it.

I will be sure to keep making updates to the Blog while I am there to fill anyone in who is interested.

God Bless.

Well I have picked the classes I will be attending during my third semester at college. The first class which will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings is Industial Pumps And Piping Systems. This is a valuable class as I have many run-ins with diaphragm pumps and the way they are piped in. I should be able to get alot of good information on this topic and it will help me tremendously in my job.

The second class I will be taking during this semester will be Industrial and Mechanical Drawing. This will be an important class to take but not as important as the pumps class or any of the other technical classes I have taken so far.I suppose it is needed though and I dont really know when I will get to draw any blueprints or apply this information to my current job. But then I am still wondering how I might be able to aplly Philosophy to my job which I cant think of one reason why I am taking that acedemic class.

When the 2nd semester ends and before the 3rd semester begins, I will be flying up to Charlott, North Carolina for some more schooling. This will be a class on a LAthe that we have here in the plant. It will give me a certificate for being able to work on the mechanics of this lathe and I will earn 3 college credit hours for participating in this class. Yep, Im racking them hours up.

Well thats about it for now. Stay tuned for more updates.

God Bless!