January 5, 2015

There was something I was going to write about today but I didn't write it down earlier in the day when the thought came to me so I have since forgotten it. I still need to get better at writing down the random things to jog my memory at the end of the day.

This morning I actually woke up at six o'clock. Soon enough I'll get back in the habit of slowly pushing back my wake up time to almost seven o'clock but I have at least one six o'clock morning under my belt for this new semester.

Right off the bat at work this morning the color printer was broken. It needed a new intermediate transfer something or other and a maintenance kit. Two things I've never heard of and it is like figuring out a puzzle trying to get the things out of the printer. There is a chance that the parts will arrive tomorrow and then I just hope they are easy to replace. The transfer thing seems easy enough but I didn't really look into the maintenance kit.

After messing with that I printed out the sign-up sheet for MAP testing, which starts next Monday. I had to print it out three different times because the first time I had the wrong dates and the second time I forgot about have a day off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The response to the sign-up sheet was pretty immediate. I usually get a few right off the bat but by the end of the day it looked like almost everyone had signed up for times. And in the first two weeks like I had asked, not only so we can get it over with but also so we have plenty of time for kids who miss their original test time or need extra time.

I helped out with second grade reading groups this morning and that was pretty uneventful. Just kids working on worksheets.

This afternoon was also pretty uneventful. I went through and updated my MAP spreadsheet and score sheets with the kids who have left or arrived since the last test. I've only seen one new kid but I've heard we have at least five new ones starting this week, and I'll need to get their information so I can get them added to the MAP test. I'm really not looking forward to standing around and watching kids test again.

Around 4:30PM I got a text from the lady who cuts my hair. I was supposed to get a haircut at four o'clock but completely forgot about it. The annoying this is that yesterday I had the thought that I needed to check my calendar because I had a feeling my haircut was today but I remembered I hadn't put it in my phone so I was going to have to do the math. And then I never got around to that. I felt really bad about missing it today but she was able to get me in on Thursday. I think that is the second time, maybe, that I have forgotten a haircut. Not a bad record really, considering I've been going to her since my very first haircut.

To make my visit to the old house slightly productive I brought over a big container with all my photography stuff in it and the big trash bag with the knitted blanket I started years ago but never finished. I want to say someday I'll finish that blanket but I find that to be wishful thinking. I do think I'll eventually finish the crochet blanket, I just need to pick some yarn and go with it.

Tonight I watched DVRed stuff and “played” Fantasy Life. The quotes are for the fact that I really just ran back and forth and hit the 'A' button a lot to progress through the main storyline dialogue. I thought my next stop was going to be Lunares but it turns out the goal was Terra Nimbus, a big floating island. I just landed and was kind of set free for a little bit but at that point I called it a night because I was too tired.

I then finished watching the episode of Last Of The Summer Wine which I had started while playing the game, and it felt like it was going on forever. And it turned out it was because it was an hour and a half long, when they are usually only a half hour long. I was looking on Wikipedia and I guess the four or so episodes I taped the other day were all extended, movie-type episodes. My sister said I should watch it awhile ago because it was funny and it is pretty good. I guess it first came on the air in 1973 and aired its final episode in 2010 after thirty-one seasons. Or series because it's British. Impressive.

Now I'm going to bed. It's eleven o'clock and I could have easily gone to bed two or three hours ago. It would be nice if I could wake up and exercise in the morning but I doubt that happens. It is nice just laying in bed in the morning. And I'm still a little worried about upsetting another kidney stone. My right kidney is still acting up randomly and I don't want to knock anything loose.