---- From: tms

Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:27 PM

Another good and busy Saturday in the shop ... The childrens class
seemed to go very well. Many thanks, Jen!! -- for getting us a pickup
truck. We ended up taking two pickup loads and one minivan load to
W.I.T.S., so there is some room in the workshop again.

Matthew J. was working on getting the servers in the basement taken
apart and put back together, and getting them into working order.
Nestor and Dan D. came by, with the machine they have been building for
our firewall. Nestor told me he wants to choose a time for installing
and testing things when class is *not* in session, and the shop isn't in
action. That way, if there are some glitches that need to be worked
out, it won't impact the rest of the operations.

Dan A. sold some items on eBay; it's a good trial, and hopefully we can
continue to sell some of the nicer donated equipment we don't have a use
for, in this way. We sold two computers to walk-in customers, and are
working on building some computers with Ubuntu installed on them, to
sell as $99 machines.

I got us two 2GB USB flash drives for free, one for the classroom and
one for the shop. They are *very* handy little gadgets to have around!

More work was done in sorting through the triage pile; and the
cleanup/organization of the shop continues. Thanks to Dave, Nate, Bill,
and everyone else who was there to help.

Doc, you managed to miss the snow again!! -- although the 11+ inches we
got at home on Tuesday was a bit more than what the shop received, and
most of that was melted by Saturday (except for the shady parts).

See you all next Saturday!

Theresa