Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just one thing about the meetings that I was part of that I mentioned in the student accessible version: everything has to be passed through the president's office (and some matters even going as far as the board of trustees) for final approval, so since he was not there during those meetings, (not really expected in the case of the student activities) but hopefully he will be present for the next one for foundation day, he will be given minutes of the meeting.

There was also a small matter of the accounting office not knowing where the money that Mr. Most Important Research paid (from the funds that were converted to pesos by the Taiwanese when the got here and left with him) would go.

That is, to which account: labor, physical facilities, and the school engineer was on leave on that day.

So they tried to clarify it with me at the end of the day (and of the week, since that was a Friday) to close their books, I suppose, but they really had to wait until the school engineer returned because they couldn't figure it out from what I knew.

Apparently though it was in all of those photocopies of receipts that Mr. M.I.R. brought with him, which told exactly what the school had paid for in good faith.

It was mostly for materials anyway, and for some labor with a ten percent administration fee added.

And since so far Mr. M.I.R. was content with the way things have progressed, I guess there's no hard feelings on his part about my aversion to his persistence.

Apparently though, it was only today that the school engineer found out that the tower they had worked on will ultimately not be used, even though it was paid for.

And since I could not describe to him exactly what they replaced it with, I just showed him (digitalization or quantization again, referring to yesterday's student edition topic).

In the end, he just said they'd paint the pvc pipes gray to match the roofdeck color, and that now that it's within reach of students who may be too curious about it's purpose, then he finally took seriously my original suggestion to keep that door locked unless really necessary to be opened for activities.

The exaggerated suggestion of putting up "danger: high voltage" signs wasn't taken seriously.

Session 2199 shouldn't be surprised with the miscommunication after four passes from the real decision maker. Class dismissed.