Celery Salad Base

Found this base somewhere and modified it slightly.  Turned out rather nicely.

1/4 Cup of Sweet Onion

1/8 Cup of Lemon Juice

2 tablespoons Olive Oil

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1/2 teaspoon of pepper

1/3 cup of shredded Parmesan

A bunch of celery

1. Mince the onion.  
2. Slice celery 1/4 inch.
3. Except for the celery, mix it all together.  
4. Toss the celery in the mixture.

Add other veggies for fun.  This time, I added a small zucchini.

Starting off with Power BI Online

If access is enabled to Power BI, you have a relatively simple and powerful data tool at your disposal.  

Indeed personally, I have found it to be more intuitive and flexible than Excel, enabling a variety of automation possibilities, pairing of data, as well as distribution of data and reports from the simplest variety to the most complex.

Over the course of however long it takes, I hope to offer up some snack-size pieces that walk through getting started in Power BI.  This will be within the scope of using the Power BI service, also known as Power BI Online.

A license is needed, or access through a trial version, which costs nothing to sign up.  It will likely prove insufficient for this series though.  Lacking that essential piece, the free desktop version is available, to which these instructions can easily be adapted.

Today's snack-size piece is simply about the platform we will use for this.

1. Visit the following link and login > https://app.powerbi.com
1. It should look similar to the screenshot below.
1. Not exactly.
1. Similar.  Microsoft changes things all the time, but the general screen layout has not change significantly in the last couple of years.
2. Poke around in there.  
3. See what there is to see. 
1. You cannot break anything.  
1. Do not be afraid to push buttons.  It is, after all, kind of what Power BI reports are all about, bringing a level of interactivity to otherwise boring, two-dimensional reports, enabling consumers to more quickly understand their data.

That is all I have for now; we can connect again later.  Go play! See if you can break it!

Lake Morning Platte Hikes

Enjoyed an opportunity to escape the drudgery for a couple of hours this morning and take a look at a couple of trails that I had not yet seen.  A beautiful sunny and crisp 15° C morning found the first, Green Hills of Platte Wildlife Preserve, generally okay. Half of the trail was mostly a wide gravel path, with the second half of the trail winding through a dense forest and a collection of poison ivy and ticks, within earshot of passing traffic.  I emerged unscathed and will probably have another look here once everything dies again.

The second trail was one that I had driven by several times, though had not had a chance to stop, being urgently on my way to another destination.  Charlotte Sawyers Nature Area offered a better opportunity to get away from civilization.  Voices from a neighboring farm could be heard along with random air traffic and that was about it.  It was little more than a mowed path around an overgrown field but served the purpose.  It offered space for quiet contemplation.

Second Grade Zoo Field Trip

 

An invitation to join in a field trip to the zoo, only charged with leading a couple around the massive complete, led to capturing a few new aspects of this particular location. The new aquarium is an intriguing new addition and left my second-grade troupe amazed.  It was definitely their top pick for the day.

Mother's Day Unity

 

Prior to other festivities planned for the afternoon, we made a brief journey out to the garden at Unity Village for Mother's Day.  There is some intriguing architecture loitering about the place, and quite an array of fountains and roses.  We may need to make another trip go get a closer look at other aspects of this location.