This FNP's getting an MBA

 Learning about Data Visualization and more specifically, GIS Visualization has me thinking. We learned how to use data points to map out the birth places and race of academy award winners. But, I kept thinking about all the things I could do with that skill. My first thought (albeit really odd) was to map out all the places my kids have peed, puked or pooped on me all over the world. I'm sure as adults they would love this. But I think the idea I really love is one that my husband and I share and can add to for the rest of our lives. We love to overland (it's like camping off grid.) I could mark the coordinates of all the places we have stopped for the night. I could also add data points such as activities there. For example, did we hike, kayak, climb, swim, fish... I think this is the beginning of something amazing. 

 This week's learning was about operational management. I read numerous articles about Amazon and their amazing logistics and state of the art supply chain. I discovered the obscene amounts of vehicles of transportation they have in their employ. One variety is shipping containers. 10,000 of them. They are very useful as they are able to be filled by suppliers overseas, loaded onto trains at docks and then lastly put on semi-trailers. It was September 2023 when my husband and I were on an overlanding trip through Arizona, Utah and Colorado. We were in Utah when we first saw the long train carrying shipping containers bearing the familiar Amazon Prime logo. It was an astounding amount of containers. We counted 85 rail cars, each carrying 2 containers, all Amazon. We pondered what was in them and where were they headed. Then in Southern Colorado, we saw another one. That time we lost count. Once again, we discussed the possible contents. We couldn't decide if it was just an obsce