Friday, June 1, 2007

Product Research

My main focus today was my spreadsheet. The library has sort of been put on hold until P and R have time to go through the materials so I spent pretty much all of today on the computer researching which I thought was going to be a little dull but turned out to be really intersting. Besides that though, my day was broken up my little errands and trips to like the post office or out to grab some coffee.

My unofficial goal was to get the solid surfaces page of my spread sheet under control (I'm still dreading the Flooring spreadsheet) which has gone pretty smoothly. To sort of keep myself focused what I like to do it center on one material for like, 15 minutes, and find as much information on that one product as I can but when the time limit is up I have to stop and move one or explore something tangential to the product. For example, I spent a lot of time looking up a product called IceStone which is actually certified by Bill McDonough and the "Cradle to Cradle" certification which was kind of cool. So, I spent some time looking at this list of companies certified under the "Cradle to Cradle" label to see if there were any materials that I recognized or could possible add to my spread sheet.

So, I don't know, it seems a little dull but I actually really enjoyed myself today. I just wish I wasn't so tired. May is our buisiest month at the restaurant so I've had to work every day after I get done at ISP. I mainly just miss eating meals with my family expecially because "family meal" at the restaurant is really terrible. Working so many hours is really starting to catch up with me.

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