August 25, 2014

This morning I realized I was a bit of an idiot last night. Last night I did laundry. Before going to bed I pulled one load out of the dryer, cleaned the lint trap, threw in a new dryer sheet, shut the door, and went to bed. Completely forgetting the important step of moving my last load from the washer into the dryer and then starting the dryer. Whoops. Thankfully I didn't need anything in that last load today.

Most of my Odyssey links were still on the computer lab computers today but last night (or this morning, I can't remember) I had a genius idea. I would make a page that automatically redirected to the Odyssey website. Then I could put that shortcut on the desktop and not worry about it being deleted as a “broken link” like a regular shortcut.

After a little Googling I found the code I needed because I didn't want to waste my time trying to figure it out myself. It didn't need to turn into another student database situation. I didn't need to actually design a page, just paste the code in, so instead of using Word I went old school with it and just used notepad. Then I dropped the file and the icon I made onto my network drive and snaked my way around the lab, putting it on all of the computers. It was the same multi-step process as my shortcuts link page, putting it on the public desktop, but it didn't take me too long. But then I realized after the first class came in that I messed up. I dragged the file and the icon from my drive to my desktop, then to the public desktop folder, then made a shortcut of my file so I could change the icon. I guess when I made the shortcut it was created on my desktop, not the public desktop. I did it right on the first two computers but then started doing it differently for some reason. So I had to go back around and move my shortcut to the public desktop folder. My bad. I'm going to double-check things tomorrow and if they are all still there I'm going to start putting it on laptop carts.

This morning I finished up cutting squares for one of the kindergarten teachers and then took on another cutting project from one of the second grade teachers. I didn't realize it was going to be so big. I was working on cutting squares on Friday when she was in the workroom photocopying all this stuff on cardstock. I also helped her un-jam the copier. It turns out she was making all the word cards for her kids and all of them need to be cut out. It isn't all the kids but the ones who have them have a whole bunch of cards. It's going to take me forever.

We had the first fire drill of the year today while I was cutting cards and the alarms are just as loud as they were last year. And it was at least 100 degrees outside so that was lovely. After coming back in I watched a second grade class for a few minutes while the teacher went to the bathroom, and then I went back to the lab to help one of the first grade classes. Getting them logged into the computers is still pretty rough. I would like to fast forward a month or two when most of them have it all figured out. It doesn't help that most of them are having to log into the computer for the first time as well as remember another log in for Odyssey and Type to Learn. We'll get there.

I spent the rest of my day cutting cards and talking briefly with whoever wandered into the workroom. I made it through the first three sets of cards today with many more to go. Before leaving for the day I set up the internet on the music teacher's intern's laptop. The guest access thing still hasn't been figured out, no word from the tech guys, so I set her up on the regular network after manually setting it up on her computer.

Tonight I had all the intentions in the world to start start packing but then I ended up not even touching a box. In my mind it is all going to work out and I'll be ready for the movers to get all the big stuff on Sunday. I also won't be surprised if I am horribly unprepared for their arrival. My goal is to make a whole bunch of trips back and for on Friday after work and then all day Saturday. That seems like plenty of time, kind of, but I'll need to have a lot of stuff packed up before then so I can spend my time moving stuff rather than packing stuff. I'm interested to see how things go. I also have some grad school stuff to worry about throughout the week and possibly a visit with the new volunteer kid. It should be a fairly busy week. Ending in a new house.