Webb Family Blog

Kellie and I finished our last class a week ago and boy are we glad. I REALLY did not like the class. It was a nursing theory class. I don’t argue that some of the theory may help with some areas of nursing, but it was being purported that it was relevant to all areas of nursing, which was purely false. Our instructor was calling me “closed minded” about it, but I disagree; I believe she was too out of touch with many of the non-traditional areas of nursing. Anyways, it’s over. I got an “A-”and Kellie got an “A” in the class. We are now taking a 3-week hiatus from school. We are allowed a 29-day break between classes without disruption of financial aid. The way the University of Phoenix operates, there is a new course starting every week, so this allows a 3-week break. It has allowed us to regain our sanity.

This past weekend, Kellie and I did not do much constructively. We spent much of the time playing Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children. This game is very simplistic looking, but very addictive. This next weekend, I will be going down to Waterford, to my parent’s new house to work on the wiring. The 3^rd weekend off, Kellie and I will be headed up to Reno, Nevada for the 26^th Annual High Sierra Critical Care Conference sponsored by the American Lung Association of Nevada. Kellie and I went to the 24^th annual conference when we first started dating. We were trying to spend as much time together as possible and this seemed like a logical educational excuse to spend time together. It was during this conference were we started talking about getting married. Unfortunately, we couldn’t push our hiatus any further, as our next class begins WHILE we are in Reno.

It has been over a month since my last post to this site. Kellie and I have been completely stressed out with our current class in school. This class is called Theoretical Foundations of Professional Nursing. It really does not seem relivent to much of what I have done in nursing. As with much of nursing education, it is designed by people that are too far removed from the field and believe that what they are teaching is a universal standard, when in fact it is not. There is a vast array of backgrounds each nurse in the class has. We have one more week left in this class. After that, Kellie and I are going to take a 2-week break from classes. There are many things that we have not been able to address and stress has just been building up. We need the break. During this time, I will finally get around to hooking up the communication wiring in my parent’s new house.

As you can see, there are quite a few wires that need to be terminated and hooked up. If my count is correct, there will be 21 computer network jacks, 19 telephone jacks and 13 television jacks. Obviously, there are 2 ends to each wire and there are a total of 8 smaller wires inside each computer and telephone wire. This will be a bit of work, but I will be doing this during a weekend during my time off from school.

There is so much else that has been going on, it is hard to find where to start. So I won’t. Like always, I’ll TRY to be better at making regular posts to the site.