December 5, 2013

I started my day at work by installing printers on four of the SPED laptops. Figuring out how to do that at the beginning of the year is probably the single most useful thing I have learned so far this year. Later on I also helped one of the paras sort out the copier. It was nice actually doing productive things other than work on storybooks. But I did that as well. I have decided to knock out all of the scanning for the books so then I can focus on making them look better. Today I finished scanning the book I started yesterday and have one page left on the book I started today. I have noticed that most of the remaining books have copious amounts of white so I probably won't be finished editing any time soon.

Second grade reading groups were a little different today because there was a substitute but once again the kids were pretty well behaved. I like when they are well behaved.

During one of the classes in the lab a second grader came up to me saying there was music playing in her headphones and she couldn't concentrate on the assignment she was working on in Odyssey. I checked to make sure nothing else was open and there weren't any random tasks or processes, but everything appeared to be normal. Yet there was still elevator-type music playing in the headphones. I tried unplugging the headphones and turning on the speakers but the music could only be heard in the headphones. I even tried swapping headphones. I kind of felt like I was going crazy. I tried logging off and logging back in as a different person but the music was still there. Finally I turned the computer off and back on, and that solved the problem. My theory is that a kid this morning during Boys & Girls Club was playing a game on Cool Math, left the game running, and instead of logging off they switched users instead. So their desktop was still running somewhere in the recesses of the computer. But the only evidence of this was the music playing through the headphones. It was incredibly strange.

Tonight I didn't have a visit with the kid, but you can't say I didn't try. I text him a couple times, tried to call him, and tried to call his foster dad. No luck. I finally heard back from him at 8:41PM, about two hours I tried and he told me his phone had been dead. His loss.

I spent my time more productively, playing a bit of Ocarina Of Time 3D, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Pokemon Y, and Skyrim. I still have awhile to go before I catch up in Ocarina to where I made it to on the N64 recently, but I'll get there, and beyond. The game looks so much better on the 3DS, and the 3D looks pretty cool, for the few seconds I turned it on every now and then. It makes me feel like I'm going cross-eyed.

In Animal Crossing I picked a bunch of oranges and then planted a couple rows of orange trees. I was looking up the requirements to get bigger stores and that is going to take forever. What I really want is a slingshot because three or four times now I have seen a present floating by on a balloon but I can't get it without a slingshot.

I didn't get very far in Pokemon Y yet so I can't pass any judgment. I can say that I have finally played a Pokemon game. I need to figure out what all the numbers mean because at the moment I just kind of tap on stuff during a fight and hope for the best. My hopes are still high though.

In Skyrim, my modded user interface still isn't working which is annoying, but I did use a console command to increase the amount of stuff I can carry, and that makes me very happy. I'm not a fan of inventory management. I just want to pick up everything I see, especially all the worthless stuff. Or the seemingly worthless stuff. I still don't know what most of the little things are used for. If anything.

I think now I am going to do my monthly report for my volunteer thing real quick and then go to bed. I would prefer to just go to bed but the report is due tomorrow and I don't really want to do it after work before going to the theater.