Thursday, May 14, 2015

May 14, 2015

 I made a lot of progress with MAP stuff today. I downloaded all of the reports for the classes that are fully updated (still waiting on a few classes to have tests deleted). I also made all the pie charts to show the breakdown of scores this time around and added those to the ones for the Winter and Fall. I made them for individual teachers and I made a collection that shows entire grades and the entire school for the principal. Being able to type all of that into a single paragraph makes it sound quite a bit less involved than it was. It took so much work.

When I have finished all the MAP stuff I had time to edit a few pictures for the slideshow. I might have a few more pictures to go but tomorrow I'd like to start making the individual slides. And then figure out how to actually make a slideshow again. I'm hoping I vaguely remember enough that it will go smoothly.

This afternoon the sixth graders performed the play that they wrote this year. Last year's sixth graders did the same thing and it turned out really well. This one also turned out well. This year's play was about a group of kids that were making a float for Mardi Gras and the older kids in the group weren't nice to the younger kids, until they learn to respect each other in the end. Some of the kids were a little too good at being mean and a lot of the kids in the audience were a little too amused by the mean kids in the play. But it was good. I was surprised last year and was again surprised this year, pleasantly so on both occasions.

I ended up not having to work the Book Fair after school. The librarian's son's baseball game was canceled so she didn't have to leave. I went down anyway near the end of the day to take a break from the computer and talked to the librarian for awhile until a lot of parents and kids started coming in to buy books.

When I got home I played Minecraft and made a lot of progress in my second basement. I still need to figure out how I want to do the roof on the second floor because my house is still lacking a roof. I have some ideas but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

There was a break in playing when I had to run upstairs and break up a dog fight. There was a very fine balance during feeding time at the old house and it is even more precarious at the new house. We already have to feed Tanner separate from Beau and Alfie but they nip at each other as they pass because we have to let Tanner inside and the other two out. I'm not sure how it started today, other than passing each other during the switch, but when I got up there Alfie had Tanner pinned on his back. Tanner is always the asshole starting shit. Awhile ago Alfie finally gave it back and ever since then she occasionally nips at him. Today she totally dominated him. He was never the toughest, just always ready to start a fight, and now he seems to be getting more frail, but he's still an asshole that starts fights. And Alfie isn't having it.

Awhile ago, after unintentionally sticking my hand in a mouth when trying to separate Tanner and Beau, I started to go lion tamer style and would use a chair to to separate them. We have a baby gate covering the stairs so the dogs can't go down, and as I came up I just held onto the gate and went right for the dogs, shoving it in between them until I could get them separated, and then used it to coral Tanner away from the door so Alfie could be pushed outside. Nothing like a dog fight to get the adrenaline going. I will never get why people get into dog fighting, on several levels.

Tonight I played some GTA5 while watching the Neebs livestream. When I first spawned in I got in my minivan to go see Lester so he could explain the heists. All the way across town there was another player in a helicopter trying to blow me up. He was a horrible shot because he never hit me. He finally blew up my van while it was parked outside Lester's house and I was inside watching the cutscene. Nice guy. I spent most of my night playing solo races, getting money and leveling up and maybe getting slightly better at driving a motorcycle.


The stream is still going but it is eleven o'clock and I'm freaking tired. I've been up way too late recently and waking up way too early. This weekend I'll be sleeping in but we're not there yet. So I'm going to sleep.

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