Monitors. What do I say about monitors? They are perhaps the most useful of all peripherals for the computer. They come in many different shapes and sizes, some slender and light, and others boxey and weighthe equivalent of a sack of bricks. You can have one monitor or many monitors connected to your computer, and they are all a huge pain in my rear.

For the past week and a half I have had one job at work, find and replace all of the old CRT monitors in the school district with newer LCD monitors. I have had to walk around all of the classrooms and check inside to see if they still had CRT monitors in them. If I found any I would then have to count how many I needed and go grab the appropriate amount of LCD monitors. Then I would have to haul those monitors to the classroom and removing the CRT monitors and connecting the LCD monitors. Usually this would happen during a class so I would have to try to be extra quiet while trying to lug these huge monitors out of the classes. Once I got about 12 CRT monitors, I would toss them in the back of my truck and drive them back to the warehouse where I would stack them on a pallet, wrap them with shrink wrap, and put the serial numbers in the inventory system.

It started with just a quick walk around the high school, walk around and scout for monitors, simple enough. There were only a couple in the high school, I think there were 14 in total that needed to be replaced. This process only took us one day, it was relatively easy. My arms were a little tired by the end of the day but I didn't think it was that bad.

After the high school was finished we got to move to our first elementary school, LU. LU isn't too far away from our office at the high school but there were so many monitors that we had to take what felt like a million trips. After five days, LU was finally finished, but not without bruised shins and egos, a full tank of gas, and a strained shoulder. After all was said and done at LU we had replaced ~70 CRT monitors.

The next school that we needed to clear was Allen. Allen is still an ongoing project, even though there were only 7 monitors in total to replace there. Our first day at Allen was a doozy. We started the day by replacing a monitor in the kindergarten classroom then moving to the first grade classroom where there were the final 5 monitors to replace. The teacher said that now wasn't a good time and asked us to come back later in the day. We obliged and started heading to my truck to go back to the office. As we walked out to my car I realized that I didn't have my keys on me. These keys had everything on them; car, house, spare to my girlfriend's car. We searched and searched but we couldn't find them at all even though we had only been in two classrooms. After searching for my keys for about 2 hours, lunch time had passed and we were getting hungry so we decided to talk to the nearest store to grab something to eat. The nearest store was a small convenience store about two miles away. On our journey to the store in the ~85 degree heat, we almost got hit by a car and chased by a pitbull (who turned out to be a sweet little guy). When we got back to Allen from lunch we looked some more for my keys and the teachers received a mass email about them from the front office. It was about 2:00 and Josh got a ride back to the office from a kind stranger, I decided to stay and wait for my girlfriend to get off work and bring me my spare key so I could get home. At about 2:45 a teacher came out and asked me if I was the person looking for my keys. She had found them in the toy box in her kindergarten classroom. It turns out some kid had snatched my lanyard out of my pocket and I didn't notice.

What a day that was, I have never felt more like an intern in my entire life. Even though that day was just full of unfortunate events, it was a day that I won't be forgetting for a while. Overall my experience at BESD has been a pretty good time even though I probably make it sound like I don't really enjoy it. The people that I work with are all fantastic people and I have been learning new things every day.