{"id":106,"date":"2010-07-17T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/17\/spreadsheet-good-taking-care-of-a-friend\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:34:13","slug":"spreadsheet-good-taking-care-of-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/17\/spreadsheet-good-taking-care-of-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Good: Taking Care of a Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"234\" height=\"159\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Maybe you use a spreadsheet to create your grocery list, or keep track of your daily tasks. Frat brothers from the University of Virginia have taken those ideas, and added a splash of good will, to help out an old friend &#8212; their former housefather.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the <a title=\"Charlottesville Daily Progress\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.dailyprogress.com\/cdp\/news\/local\/article\/frat_brothers_lend_hand_to_man_who_helped_them_often\/58123\/\">Charlottesville Daily Progress<\/a>, Billy Hearns worked at their Chi Psi fraternity for 50 years. Frat brothers from those five decades are now working together, to ensure he&#8217;s well fed and cared for, during his retirement.<\/p>\n<p>So, how does a spreadsheet play a part in this heartwarming story?<\/p>\n<p>The frat brothers created a spreadsheet signup sheet for Hearns\u2019 meals and each person chooses a week during which they plan his meals and pay a local catering company that delivers the meals.<\/p>\n<p>What a great way to use a spreadsheet! Have you heard of any other philanthropic uses for Excel, or another spreadsheet program?<\/p>\n<p>_____________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you use a spreadsheet to create your grocery list, or keep track of your daily tasks. Frat brothers from the University of Virginia have taken those ideas, and added a splash of good&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day","category-spreadsheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}