August 20, 2013

Today there was a distinct lack of printers in my life. I was okay with it. I didn't have a lot going on today so I started to remake the student directory I made last year. I don't think anyone actually looked at it last year after I made it. And I only used it to create the reports that made the student directory. So I don't really see the point of the whole thing other than giving me something to do. It was more than a bitch last year putting it all together and having to relearn a bit of Visual Basic in order to do it. I was also using Access 97 so hopefully things will be easier with Access 2010. Although I will probably spend half my time looking for stuff that I knew about in 97 but can't find in 2010.

I also did some googling to figure out how to change the 'Shut Down' button in the Start Menu to 'Log Off', for all users on a computer. This was inspired after almost all of the the third graders shut down their computers instead of logging off of their computers. Like everything else I have done to the computers, it took at least 500 steps to switch the button for every user on the computer. When all it takes is one right-click and a drop-down menu to switch it for individual users. But I got it done. I think. Hopefully it takes.

While working on that I discovered that all of my desktop shortcuts had disappeared from all but one of the computers. What the crap? One possible explanation is that the computers thought they were broken links and deleted them. And one possible solution to this is to put the links in a folder on the desktop. So as I went around switching the 'Shut Down' button, I added a folder to each desktop with all my shortcuts. Fingers crossed they stick this time.

Near the end of the day we had an assembly and I got screwed after it. Last year I helped put the chairs away after assemblies with my para friend, and by the end of the year, a lot of helpful kids. This year, my para friend is one of the new fifth grade teachers, so she has that to do. After the assembly, everyone left and the custodians never showed up, even though it is the custodians job to put out and pick up the chairs. The principal asked me last year to help, and I did, but the custodians slowly stopped showing up in time to pick chairs up. And today there was no sign of them. So I picked up all the chairs, while the gym teacher and a PTO parent stood around talking to the guy who put on the assembly. It pretty much sucked, and it hurt my wrists and forearms after all the typing I have done recently. We'll see how it goes with the next assembly or two but if I continue to be left to do it myself I will probably just walk out with everyone else.

On my way home I stopped at Target to get bread and peanut butter. Then I came home and played Saints Row 4. Prior to the release of the game they released a character creator so in theory, you could spend a bunch of time creating your character and then upload it to the game when it was released. That way you could just right into playing because the character creation process usually takes awhile. And I spent a lot of time making my character but when it came time to load it into the game today, there was nothing. So I had to remake my character, and it looks somewhat similar to my original one but I spent a lot less time on it because I wanted to get into the game.

Despite all that, the game is a lot of fun. It is basically the same game with a new story and superpowers. And it's cool. In order to upgrade the superpowers you need to go around and collect these shimmering blue things that are all over the city. I like collecting things so I have already collected over 350 of them. I haven't gone too far in the story yet so I only have two superpowers unlocked and an over abundance of those shimmering blue things that I can't spend yet. But I'll be ready. With the superpowers I have started using the cars less and less, but every time I see a cool car I stop and get it. In this one in order to save a car all you have to do is get in it and hit 'N', then it becomes available whenever you want it. That is really convenient, and I imagine they did that because most people probably aren't going to put too much effort into the vehicles in the game. But I can see myself losing myself in customizing all my vehicles when I have more money.

And now it is late again because for the life of me I can't get back on a decent sleep schedule. Tomorrow is going to come too soon.