Faculty Meetings

Posted Fri Aug 25, 2006 in University

The image is a teaser from the last batch made while on our trip to Missouri. It’s the Star of Texas displayed at the welcome center located on U.S. 69 at the Oklahoma border. When we arrived the center was closed, but the architecture was pretty interesting. TxDOT spent some money building this facility and should be proud of it. It’s beautiful.

Yesterday the dean hosted the College of Engineering fall faculty meeting. There were a few things presented I needed to know about, but I spent a lot of my energy working on a proposal that needs to get out. I’m lacking one short-form CV and the package will be about ready to go.

This morning I’ll be tied up all morning in the departmental faculty meeting. We don’t have a lot of faculty meetings in my department (which is both good and bad), so when we do, they’re pretty full. This afternoon I’ll finish ram-rodding my proposal through channels.

Classes begin Monday here at Texas Tech. I’m not sure if I’ll have one or two this fall. I’m hoping for one because my research load is relatively heavy. I’m prepared for two classes, though. I need to port the remainder of my notes from my old tablet-pc to my MBP. I’ve got Winders running on my MBP using Parallels and will install Microsoft OneNote, at least in the interim, until I can typeset all of my class notes.

OK, now to the shower, another cup, and to campus. It’s going to be a busy day.

0845: I’m on-campus, fed, and have more coffee. So, I guess I’m ready to go to the faculty meeting. I just about have my proposal assembled, so that can be processed, hopefully in parallel to my faculty meeting.

In addition, I solved a problem. I haven’t been able to get my MBP talking to the wireless network here on campus. (It works just fine on my WiFi net at home!) I spent a half-hour on the phone with the TTU Help Desk yesterday trying to debug the problem. We walked through the instructions but were unable to get my MBP talking to the campus WiFi network. This morning, on a flyer, I clicked on the TTUnet entry under the Airport icon. When asked for the WEP password or key, I chose LEAP instead. The system asked for my credentials, then promptly gave me a connection. So much for the help-desk instructions.

Now off to my faculty meeting…