Week 2 Arc Own Your Own Map

     Hello to whomever has decided to read my word vomit of a blog. While this assignment was named "Own your own map" it seems like the map owned me.
     Since two days before school started things have been going on in my family. I am doing my best to keep on track and not need any leeway or sympathy because this is just the start, but boy is it rough some days. So if my kind professor is actually reading this, though I have no idea why she would want to read my nonsense, I have not specified what has happened because I am almost certain that things will get far worse than they currently are and I do not want to expend her kindness or leeway before I truly need it.
     I will just have to work harder to push the troubles away and focus as I can not allow this to derail me. I will do my best to not make it habit to turn things in late, maybe the same day or pretty close to the deadline but I truly hope I do not make a fool of myself. Its not that I don't care about the class, or treat it as something less than but my family dynamics are difficult and chaotic to say the least.
     Alright, who knew it was possible for file explorer to crash and you be completely unable to access your files or save? Well if you didn't, now you do and if you did, good for you. It took 10 minutes of solid panic to see if I didn't unknowingly ruin my computer to resurrect the process. Restarting the computer 5 times, ending and restarting the process in task manager and trying to access the process another way did not work. I got on my mothers phone to look up videos on how to fix it because oddly enough the wifi went out and I forgot to buy data. Anyway, seems that technology had it out for me this evening.
      The assignment itself was interesting to see how things built on each other and then made a pretty map that I always wondered how was made. I had to fight myself to not make everything varying shades of soft blue and purple and light grey for some reason.
     As I said for the answer to my post assignment: "My map is incorrect because I was unable get the Florida Overview map and the UWF main Campus map to be separate maps then join them together on one layout. Due to this the star of UWF and the City label show up on the small Florida Overview map because they were the same exact map, just zoomed to different layers and would not allow selecting things differently. That is my fault and I will practice after I submit this to learn how to do it correctly. I chose the colors as close to the assignment as I could, even though for some reason I was leaning towards purple and grey today. I chose the scales I did because they seemed to be the only ones that wanted to work with me and display the correct numbers. I chose to do the layout because it seemed to be the most sensible and because when I got to the end of the instructions I was able to see how you demonstrated it and moved things closer together." Yes even the scales did not want to report the correct numbers, but that is probably because I was mildly freaking out.
      I will not let this derail me and will do my best to practice more and learn how to do this correctly. It truly interests me and I want to learn. Not quite sure if this is not appropriate for a school/professional based blog post but I can edit later if necessary.
     Thank you for reading. I hope everyone had an easier time than I did and enjoyed the lab. Have a wonderful weekend to all. Interesting fact: babies are born with more bones than adults to fit through the birth canal easier, these bones later. But they are born without kneecaps.
     Who wants to own their own map when the map can own you?
     ~Jo Snow.

Week 1 Lab: ArcGIS Overview

     Hello all, I have never even visited a blog let alone used one so bear with me here.
     This lab was rough. My wifi was rather rough and I had to complete the lab today or I wouldn't have at all. The newness of the format, information and software, along with my failing internet connection, caused me to restart the lab from the beginning a total of 4 times. That being said, there is no guarantee that my tired self completed the assignment correctly. Family circumstances have dictated that I will not be in town after tomorrow morning and until the due date, so here I am at 4 in the morning posting this. I have to say that the software we use is rather interesting and set up much like Microsoft word. It will surely take some getting used to. I think the hardest part will be following the lab instructions and getting everything correct, however, it seems that the lab manual is rather well laid out. This will certainly be a learning experience, lets see how this goes.
      Good luck all and than you fro reading.
      ~Jo Snow.