October 21, 2013

I did stuff today. And I didn't play any Minecraft.

I ended up sleeping in until seven o'clock but I still managed to get to work a little after eight o'clock. When I got to work and logged into my computer I discovered that it had been reset back to how it was when school first started. The programs I have downloaded and the things in my Recycle Bin were still there but everything on my desktop was gone. Including a folder where I had been putting the stuff I had been working on this year. Poof. Luckily all the important stuff was saved on one of the shared drives but I still lost stuff. And that is annoying. I emailed the Librarian to see who I should talk to about it and she had me email one of the tech guys. Later in the day I got an email from the principal who forwarded me an email from one of the tech guys saying they had tried to make student logins faster and they ended up wiping everything accidentally. None of the lab computers seemed to be affected, other than student logins actually being slower. And then my computer was wiped. And not remotely because when I opened up Excel today it showed that the last thing opened was a list of Office registration codes from a flash drive. So I'm kind of annoyed.

Despite that, I finished the spreadsheet the principal wanted me to make comparing the most recent MAP scores with the scores from last Spring. That was all a bit tedious and staring at all those numbers, while listening to classical music on NPR, was lulling me to sleep. But I finished it.

I fixed a laptop today by taking out the hard drive and then putting it back in. Seeing as how I'm not supposed to even open the computer towers, I'm probably not supposed to take the hard drive out of a laptop, but I only had to take out two screws and slide it out. It was easier than my netbook which kept the hard drive and RAM under the keyboard. Anyway, the computer wasn't getting to the Windows screen and it was saying something about a hard drive not being present. So I decided to take it out and put it back in to see if the computer would recognize it again. And it did. I'm not sure if it was just a fluke thing or an actual problem, so my fix might not last very long, but it worked for today.

The second grade teacher who I help out with reading centers made me a tiny loaf of chocolate chip pumpkin bread. I'm not sure if she has several tiny bread pans or if it is one big pan with individual tiny loaf spots in it. That is a mystery, one which I could solve with a question, and I might do that, but for now the mystery lives. Regardless of that, the bread was good. I had some after dinner and despite pumpkin being in the title, I liked it.

Speaking of food, after school I stopped by Target to get stuff. I got peanut butter, tortillas (jalapeno cheddar and thin corn), broccoli, pineapple, and a pomegranate because I have always wanted to try a pomegranate. Before dinner I tried it. It was kind of fun cutting it in half and then beating the seeds out of it over a bowl. I never noticed it in the pictures or videos but the seeds look just like corn kernels. Especially Indian corn because it has more of that color. It seems like there has to be some connection there. Maybe not. As for the seeds, I liked the first half of them but wasn't really a fan of the crunchy inside. It's like it is something that should be bit into and chewed a couple times before spitting it out. It's like a reverse sunflower seed.

For dinner I made steamed rice with broccoli and a little teriyaki sauce, a fake hamburger, and pineapple. With the chocolate chip pumpkin bread for dessert. And later in the night I had half of a caramel apple with peanuts. It was a really sour apple but it worked well with the caramel and peanuts. Also, I can't remember the last time I had three different fruits in one day. Probably the last time my sister made fruit pizza, and that has been awhile now.

After dinner I made tortilla chips. I made wheat ones just in case because I know I like them. Then I made some jalapeno cheddar ones. I tried one or two and they were actually pretty good. Then I made the thin corn ones. I tried one of the thin corn tortillas before I backed it and I am surprised that is not up there with the saltine challenge (trying to eat ten in a minute). One bite and my mouth instantly went dry. Once baked they were quite a bit better. I think I could have left them in a little longer but they seem edible. I did end up cooking each type individually because they had different consistencies and even though it was more time consuming I think it was the right choice.

Tonight I continued watching Once Upon A Time and that was about it. Nothing productive anyway. I am still enjoying the show. Still hating the mayor. She truly is crazy because her hatred for Snow White is way too intense. The phrase 'an eye for an eye' has obviously never come on her radar. Her vengeance is more of a nuclear winter in response to being accidentally bumped into. It's all a bit absurd to be honest. I can understand be mad and going after Snow White, even though that is a stretch. It was all the mother. But it just seems to keep snowballing. I have no idea what is to come but I don't see there being any redemption for the mayor. She's too far gone. But I'm going to keep watching to see what happens. I've got one episode left in the first season and then I can start on the second.