Today was a short day due to early
release but it was busy. And it started with tragedy. I was up in
the resource room getting some busy work from one of the resource
teachers and learned that the financial secretary's husband had a
heart attack and died last night. I don't know the full story but I
heard that the secretary woke up to him having the heart attack and
then gave him CPR until the paramedics arrived. There are four kids,
the sixth grader and second grader go to our school, but I think they
slept through it. It is an often used phrase but I can't even begin
to imagine what that family is going through. All day it has been on
my mind and I keep trying to put myself in their place, both the
secretary trying to save her husband and the kids waking up or being
woken up and told their dad has died. And I can't do it. I just
can't imagine it.
From what I've heard they weren't
that financially well off to begin with and on top of the emotional
toll, this will also take a major financial toll. I play PowerBall
because I want a vice and I don't have even the slightest delusion
that I could actually win. Despite that, one of the main reasons I
think it would be cool to win is so I could be a philanthropist. I
like giving money to things. I currently work two jobs that don't
pay very well, so I can't give a lot of money, but it makes me feel
like I'm at least helping in a small way when I am able to donate.
This is one of those instances where I really wish I had won the
lottery so I could be of more help financially.
Before school actually started I
worked on the thing for the resource teacher and worked on the gifted
teacher's tablet. She woke up to it plugged in, feeling super hot,
and it wouldn't turn on. I'm assuming it just needed to cool down or
something because all I had to do was press the power button and
volume up button for a second or two and it came right on as if
nothing had happened. I like easy fixes like that.
The rest of my morning was spent
testing. One of the kindergarten teachers brought me a purple stool
that I can sit on in the back of the lab so I don't need to stand up
the whole time. I only sat down on it a little bit today but
tomorrow I've got four tests so I will probably using it more,
especially by the end of the day.
Over lunch I worked on figuring out
how to add an email address to the school group so the office lady
could include that email address in her school-wide emails. I messed
around and eventually figured out how to do it but didn't have
sufficient privileges to actually make the changes. I found a
workaround and set that up for the office lady but it wouldn't work
for other people who wanted to use the school group. So the office
lady called one of the tech guys and he was able to fix it.
Because of early release there
weren't any tests this afternoon but I was kept busy. I started
making the spreadsheets for the state assessment testing plans. That
was interrupted by going up to the third floor to figure out the
printer in one of the fourth grade rooms. It was only randomly
printing. I think the problem was caused by the ethernet cable
coming from the wall not being plugged into the right spot on the
hub. When I put it where I thought it should go, the printer started
printing stuff. So it appears to have worked. I'll have to check
back later to see if it has continued to work. The teacher said one
of the SPED teachers had been testing in the room and thought maybe
the cables got mixed around when she was hardwiring laptops.
I also tracked down one of the
second grade teachers, who ended up being in the teacher's lounge,
not her room, because she wanted Reading Counts on her laptop. In
the search for her I ran into one of the new paras who was trying to
connect to the wireless on her phone and I got that sorted out. The
para ended up down in the lounge when I was working on the second
grade teacher's laptop and I helped her again but showing her how to
authenticate because she wasn't able to use her Facebook app. Then I
made a few slight edits and printed off a recipe that the cook had
sent me and took that down to her office. On my way back down the
hall one of the kindergarten teacher's asked me if I could walk one
of the kindergarteners back to the gym because she was staying for
Boys & Girls Club. She is the really small kindergartener so I
held her hand and tried very hard to walk slow enough for her.
And at the very end of the day I
went back up to the third floor to help one of the student interns
get her laptop connected to the wireless. The librarian had tried
several things earlier in the day but it wasn't working. I lucked
out because when I went up all I had to do was open up Chrome and the
log in screen popped up. I like simple fixes. On a side note, the
student intern looks a lot like Anna Camp from Pitch
Perfect, except with light brown
hair instead of blonde hair. She could easily be a younger sister.
After work I talked to the librarian
for awhile and then headed over to the old house. I went through all
my clothes that had been piled up on a chair in the laundry room.
There were a lot of shirts that I had completely forgotten about. My
favorite was one with a pictures of William Shakespeare that said “I
Love My Willy”. I want to say I got it in Europe but I don't
remember buying any shirts in Europe. So who knows.
I then watched a live stream of
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson finishing their free climb of El
Capitan's Dawn Wall in Yosemite National Park. The internet is
amazing. It was really cool to watch but it was also slow going so I
also ended up watching Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno.
I'm a fan of the anime and manga but had no idea there there live
action movies. I need to look up the first one. The lead guy did a
really good job I thought. They included a bit of quirkiness every
now and then which I liked.
With the mountain climbing and movie
watching I was slightly late going down to get Chipotle. Not as late
as I would have been if we were eating at the regular time but my mom
pushed it back a half hour because she went to the school book club.
But then she ended up not eating dinner so we really didn't need to
push back dinner. But it was good because I got to finish what I was
watching. But but but.
My burrito was good and my sister
brought over more of the cinnamon knots she made. She had the
regular ones and a twisted version. I liked the regular ones better
because they weren't as dense. She agreed.
After dinner I read my book for an
hour or so. I think the book club for my volunteer thing is next
week so I need to send an email I plan on attending. I think it was
the last book club where I read the book and then we ended up not
meeting. So hopefully that doesn't happen again. It's a good book
though so I wouldn't be too disappointed.
When I was done reading I played
Fantasy Life for a
little while. I'm now a Master Miner. I'm going to attempt Hero
Miner so I can get some cool gear from the king and then switch to my
next Life. I'm back to vacillating on that one. I wanted to do
Alchemy so I could make health potions but now one of the characters
in my party had a healing ability so I'm not really using that many
potions anymore. Which has me leaning back toward being a Carpenter
or Blacksmith. We'll see.
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