March 26, 2014

I was pretty sure I was going to send out some emails today looking for work but one of those potential recipients stop by the lab before school with a project. I think they were reading guides, at least that was my guess. I cut out a bunch of strips of construction paper and then cut a chunk out of each, so if you turned them upside down they would kind of look like a squat table. I don't know if that makes any sense. Anyway, then I laminated them and cut them out, but not cutting out the notched area so it left a kind of laminated window. All I know is that they looked better than the example I was given and she was happy with them when I showed her the finished product.

When I had finished with that I scanned in new sixth grade pictures. And then started to add a white border to all of the pictures because I decided that would look good. My idea now is to give each kid one slide with all of their pictures on it. Or at least the pictures that will fit. I had the same idea awhile ago and actually started messing around with it but now I'm back to it. It looks better in my head now so I think the break was a good thing. I got hung up on the layout, which I haven't attempted yet this time around, but that will be my next step.

I “fixed” several laptops today. For one I turned the wi-fi on, two required me two restart the laptop, and the most work went into one where I had to take the bottom off and pull the hard drive out and put it back in. And thankfully that worked. There is another laptop that I have had to do that to, twice now, and the hard drive obviously needs to be replaced, but it'll have to die for real before that happens. And considering I'm not even supposed to open up the computer towers in the lab to blow some air in there and clean them out, I doubt I'm supposed to be taking apart laptops and messing with hard drives. Whoops.

After school I didn't really do anything and then I watched the series finale of Psych. It was incredibly sad because it is my favorite show and now it is over. But is was also an incredibly good finale. They had cameos by people they have been referencing since the beginning and I will admit that I raised my hands in triumphant fists when a new cameo was revealed. There was also a nod to Monk at the end which was subtle and smile-inducing. What I really liked about the finale was that everything was wrapped up nicely but nothing was actually brought to an end. It wasn't final. The characters and the world was left open so you can imagine things caring on as normal, even if there won't be further documentation of it. This also leaves room for optimistic hopes of the rumored movie or spin-offs or the occasional holiday special. My hopes are very high. And now I feel the need to start a Psych marathon.