Is there any way that you could work your gardening into doing some gardening on school grounds. I know from experience at our school that the cleaner and nicer the school is the less trash and vandelism. I would look into maybe doing either container gardening or finding an area to spruce up. I am hoping to do more of this this summer at our school. Stacie

It may not be an HR person pushing the games. It is entirely possible that some executive in the company heard about them and is telling HR that all the employees have to "play" the games. These "games" are apparently the latest buzzword, and execs get street cred when they can brag/boast they, too, are using the latest and greatest thing in their company. I don't work in HR, but my position requires me to work very closely with our HR department, and you would not believe some of the things the upper echelon has told them to do. Some of those things would have broken the law, and HR has had a hard time reining a few VPs in. What they get from these games is a bunch of statistics, which may be used to pinpoint employee weaknesses so they can get better training, or to pinpoint employee weaknesses so they can be let go, or which the execs can't interpret so it is all for nothing. One thing, though. I would never, ever, put company software on my phone. If the company wants me to use software that requires a touch screen, the company needs to provide the touch screen. Unless they want to pay for my phone and phone bill, my private phone remains private. Asking employees to put company-provided software on their personal devices crosses a line for me. First, it's a "game." Then it becomes requiring the employee to use their own device to do work. Not a good situation.

Our entertainment center is quite a bit larger but...We did storage for various video/ audio components and DVD's/CDs in our built in. We put regular cabinets on the bottom and hid everything behind closed doors. We used an infrared receiver in order to be able to use the remote while the doors are closed. The top was more like a bookcase with a space sized for the flat screen which we mounted to an articulating arm. For CD/DVD storage we had 2 narrow glass front 12" deep cabinets. I've also seen CD/DVD storage concealed in narrow pullouts or in drawers as well.

Mine were where yours is at back in the day. The sticker shock was worse because I really did not believe my three would spend the time playing these games that the price warranted. I was correct. Ours was minimally used. My son chose ping pong, disc golf and learning to juggle over time "gaming". We chose gamebox--My students would say it was the wrong choice. My students who play, play NON STOP in their non school time. These games have become their lives. They play with never seen strangers alone in their rooms and tell us they were not alone. The games they play are "Call Of Duty" and all its versions --all violent and ugly. If I taught a parenting class and if I thought anyone would listen the #1 mistake parents make is buying into the video/social media device purchases. Technology is dumbing down, making social outcasts, ruining our kids. These Gamers will never be captains of industry!!!