So, my mom locked her keys in her car again. For the second time in
two weeks. Thankfully this time she didn't actually leave them in
the ignition with the car still running (although we later found the
car doesn't lock when the keys are in the ignition and the car is
running). This time, who the hell knows why it happened, but she
found out when she needed to go to the bank during her lunch break.
She caught me in the hall, again frazzled because she was late
getting to the bank, and I gave her my keys so she could take my car.
She repaid me by not moving my seat back so I slammed by knee into
the steering column, leaving a gum wrapper on my passenger seat, and
leaving my already sad windshield visor in a crumpled mess on the
passenger side floor. Thanks mom. I gave her a bunch of crap about
that stuff, along with once again forgetting her keys. She is now
carrying a spare in her purse at all times. The hope is that it is
due to her being preoccupied with the new house. If that is not the
case she joked that I might end up getting the house to myself when
she gets put in a home.
This morning I finished all of the hole punching for the second grade
teacher and got everything on rings. Not to blow my own horn but the
final product looked really good. My exhaustive attention to detail
paid off. I am super glad that project is over though.
On and off throughout the day I was able to get back to my desktop
wallpaper project. I had a vision of adding color to the lab and it
worked. I used the same teddy bear with the glasses I added to it
that I used for the sixth grade slideshow last year but left him as a
normal teddy bear. But then I colorized it, eventually getting eight
different colors so they transitioned like a rainbow. I found a
blackboard that I used for the background but I also colorized it to
roughly match the color of the bear. Then I went around the lab
adding the new desktops going from red to orange to yellow to green
to blue to indigo to purple to violet. I followed the same pattern
in each row so it is more like a rainbow and not just random colors.
It turned out looking pretty much like I saw it in my head and it
looks pretty cool in the dark. I'm happy with it.
Also, when figuring out how to change the desktop wallpaper for all
users on a computer, I think I also stumbled across a way to add an
internet shortcut (a real one, not just a redirecting webpage that I
make) to all desktops so it won't get randomly deleted. Editing
through Group Policy is a great thing. Being able to add links in
this way would have been good to know a week or two ago but oh well.
I might still use it. Today I put in a trouble ticket to get links
added to several laptop carts and an old link deleted, so we'll see
how long that takes to go through. If it goes through.
This morning we had an anti-bullying assembly that consisted of a
ventriloquist/illusionist. My first thought was that my was going to
love it because she was a fan of Jeff Dunham several years ago. My
second thought was Gob on Arrested Development
saying “Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for
money.” The whole performance was a roller coaster. It started
pretty funny then got kind of sad, then was a little creepy and
confusing when no one could quite figure out which staff member one
of the puppets was hitting on, then sort of funny, then sad again,
then there was a video from the nineties (if we're being generous),
and ending with what seemed like a really forced anti-bullying
message, which had been hot and cold throughout the performance.
There were good parts but overall it seemed like an act that hadn't
quite been perfected yet. A puppet hitting on a teacher would be the
first thing I cut out.
Shortly after work my mom, sister,
her significant other, and I went up to the new house for the final
walkthrough. A few minor things were pointed out but other than that
it looked ready to go. The fence looked really nice, other than the
spots where they need to fill in some gaps along the bottom, and the
yard came out looking bigger than I originally thought it would be.
The carpet also looked good and felt good to walk on. The room where
I plan on putting my computer and whatever else got internet and
cable as well as an air vent. They apparently completely forgot
about the air vent and had to go through a lot of effort to get it in
the room. The room also didn't have a ceiling fan and my mom thought
they could just take it out of one of the rooms upstairs but the
builder said he just went ahead and ordered a new one because one
probably should have been in there in the first place. My mom signs
the papers tomorrow morning at eight o'clock and then the moving in
begins. I won't actually be able to participate until after work but
I have my work cut out for me.
After the walkthrough we all went to
the Chinese buffet for dinner. It was delicious and I ate way too
much. I had a little macaroni and cheese because I splurge when I go
to the Chinese buffet, but I mostly ate a lot of green beans a fried
rice. I normally get rice noodles but they never got refilled.
I wanted to be able to focus on
moving this weekend so I put my nose to the grindstone and did grad
school work tonight. I read the two chapters in the research book
and then wrote a response on the discussion board answering the
instructors questions. We also had to respond to two of our
classmates' responses, so I did that as well. And now my weekend is
free for moving. Yay.
I called my friend's mom's friend
tonight but she already found another dog sitter. The money would
have been nice but I'll probably still be moving stuff and working on
school stuff so it works out.
I didn't have a visit with the new
volunteer kid tonight because I was supposed to have one with him
yesterday, because he was working tonight. But then he ended up
getting called into work last night. Yet another week without a
visit. This hasn't been a great month for visits.
I got a text from the manager at the
theater tonight asking if I wanted door or box shifts because it
didn't look like they would be scheduling projection shifts any time
soon. I didn't have time to respond (also I forgot) but I think I'm
going to decline. Maybe on breaks or over the summer but during the
school year it really won't be worth it because it would screw up my
sleep schedule and I wouldn't be able to study like I could upstairs.
It appears I stayed at the theater long enough to just fade away.
It was inevitable.
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