December 10, 2013

Today at work I made a bunch of progress on the storybooks. I now only have one and a half left to scan. Then I can go back to staring intently at the screen, giving myself a headache, as I clean all the pages up. Good times.

Second grade reading groups went well. I had two groups and they each picked a vocabulary word and then filled out a worksheet based on that word (definition, sentence, synonym, antonym). Then on the back they could draw a picture related to the word, before trying to use all the words from the list in sentences. One of the kids drew an 'immense' diamond because, in his words, when he grows up he “wants to be a diamond miner so he can be rich in gold.” Interesting second grader logic. I was talking to him about it and we got off on a discussion about Minecraft, which he sees as being pretty much a factual game. “It's just like real life, but it's different.”

There was an assembly this afternoon but it was just to give out the prizes for the fundraiser. And the dude who runs the fundraiser is kind of weird and I wanted to work on storybooks. Which was good because one of the PTO moms came in and gave me a tin of homemade cookies with a Thank You note for my help on the cart art. The cookies are really good.

After work I went to the cable place and asked them about trading out my DVR for one that has an HDMI port. Had I thought ahead I would have brought my old DVR with me, but I didn't, so I had to drive all the way back across town to get it, and then back to the cable place, and then back home. But I got a new DVR. Unfortunately it appears to be a dud. I've tried two different ports on my TV and two different HDMI cables but only managed to get the cable signal to come up twice (there was something with two in the air tonight). Every other time the TV acted like nothing was plugged in. The two times the cable did show up I wasn't actually getting channels, just the screen saying I needed to call the number and subscribe or whatever. Which is dumb because I just had a DVR plugged in. I imagine that problem can be solved by calling that number and having customer service tick a box acknowledging the new DVR. But I don't think that will solve the issue of the DVR not showing up on my TV. Unless there is something else they need to do to activate it. I don't know. I'm going to try hooking it up to another TV tomorrow and if that doesn't work I'll call customer service and see if it is a simple fix or if I need to go back and get another DVR. This is all a lot of work when I barely watch TV once a week. But it is annoying that it doesn't work.

Dinner was delicious, consisting of the stuff I made last night, with the lettuce in an actual salad form rather than mixed with the other stuff, a bit of sourdough bread from Panera, and a homemade PTO cookie. As for the rest of my night, YouTube videos, and I eventually started to relearn the waffle crochet stitch. I would like to start working on my blanket again and I figured good practice would be to make a couple pot holders, which I can use as my white elephant gift for the work Christmas party on Friday. I hate the whole white elephant thing. Despise it. Always have. Always will. But hopefully it won't take up much of the party. I don't really like parties either, actually. Even though I work with all these people and talk with them all the time, I find myself not really talking to anyone at the party. I just stand around and wait for it to be over, like any other party. So yeah, Friday will be fun. And it seems that in exchange for me getting Friday night off from the theater, I get to work a double on Saturday. Hooray.