October 7, 2013

I brought the giant bag of popcorn to work in the morning. Never does the short walk from my car to the school seem so long as when I’m carrying a giant bag of popcorn. But I made it without having to stop, even if my right arm did feel a little useless afterward.

One of the funniest mistakes happened during second grade reading groups. Second graders aren’t the best spellers and some have trouble when it comes to ‘b’ and ‘d’. This lead to grandpa’s old old bike becoming grandpa’s old old dick. I was almost tempted to correct it but it was too funny. I texted my friend about it later and he came back with maybe someone should have a talk with the grandpa.

I made a big leap forward in my student directory, finally getting my report to reflect the filter I was applying to my form. So now when I select an individual teacher, I can click the report button, and the report will only show the students for that teacher. This is a very simple thing, even though it took me forever to figure out last year. And almost as long this year. The problem ended up being that the form and the report had different control sources. So I added more fields to one control source, to cover those in the other control source, and switched the form and the report to that control source. Voila. Now I can move onto adding another filter and working out the format of my report. Every now and then I’ll end up with a kid’s name at the bottom of one page and the guardians at the top of the other. I’ll figure it out. Or just adjust the report format for each class.

On the way home from work I stopped at Target to buy things. I wanted to try fried rice again so I bought more fake chicken and broccoli. I also bought teriyaki sauce because I wanted to switch that with the soy sauce. I like teriyaki sauce better.

As for the fried rice, it went much better than my first attempt. The only real problem with my first attempt was trying to cook the egg in the same pan as the rice and vegetables. And my timing was a little off so dinner ended up being much later than I planned. But this time around I had the timing figured out and I made the eggs in a separate pan and then added them into the fried rice. I was much happier with it this time around.

The rest of my night was spent working on the flower I needed to design for work. I started my designing and making the cross stitch for one of the petals. I went with a loose interpretation of David Tennant as the Doctor. There is a site online that makes a lot of pop culture cross stitch figures that are really simple looking. So I used that design but made it a little shorter and less awkward so it would fit on the petal. Originally I was going to use rubber cement to glue down the cross stitch along with the crocheted thing, the knitted thing, and the other stuff. But the cross stitch cloth just sucked up the glue. It also absorbed crazy glue. So I ended up going with mod podge and that worked out really well. After gluing down the crafted things I glued down the pictures of a music note, books, and an NES controller on the other petals. On the leaves I wrote in Morse Code “Once upon a time there were words written in Morse Code and these are those words.” Then I put my initials in Braille below that and colored the leaves and stem green. It all turned out pretty well and kept me up past my bedtime but it was worth it.

I downloaded a beta driver for my graphics card that is supposed to make Battlefield 4 run better but my work on the flower didn't allow me to try it out. So maybe tomorrow. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Even if I am leaning more toward buying it on a console.