Whoa, I just realized I hadn't written a blog update in over a week! It doesn't seem like it has been that long, but time seems to fly this time of year.

Work has been extremely busy. I have started a project where I am writing a program that will be a timekeeping system for our mill. We are going to get time clocks now for employees to clock in for their shifts, and we are going to replace the current paper time cards that we use. We were initially going to purchase a turnkey solution, but it was pretty expensive. One of our other mills created their own system so we got a copy of that to look at. Unfortunately, their method of timekeeping is much different than ours, and their program is not well documented and has a pretty lousy interface in my opinion. So I decided it would probably be better in the long run just to create one from scratch. It will be Microsoft Access based with VBA programming. I ordered four books on VBA and Access programming to assist me on this. I have a little experience, but I wanted to make sure I did things right. So I imagine that this will be quite an undertaking. I am going to try to make it generic enough that we can hopefully reuse it possibly at our other mills if it works well.