August 20, 2015

I keep forgetting to mention The Substitute, which I watched the other night. I thought I had seen it before but after having watched it I realized that it was the first time. There were plenty of points in the movie that I'm sure I would have remembered had I seen it before. It got me thinking though so I looked to see if there was sequel, and there was. That is the movie I had seen. I only vaguely remembered it but then I watched the trailer. People complain now that trailers give away the whole movie but the trailer for The Substitute 2 really does give away the whole movie. The point out the bad guy, which I believe is supposed to be a secret for at least part of the movie, and they show him getting the crap beat out of him. So no mystery there. I do kind of want to watch it though. Maybe sometime.

I'm still on an elliptical streak. I'm on thirteen days in a row. I started back in May with a thirty-two day streak, so it would be nice to beat that but I'm going to be realistic. Waking up at six o'clock in the morning to run sucks. If not for because of the lack of sleep, than the boredom. If I could fast forward through any part of my day it would be the elliptical. I feel like I could be doing so many other things during that time. And not just sleeping. Oh well, I'm going to try and keep with it.

Today I didn't really have any classes in the lab. I spent the majority of my day on the computer getting all the MAP stuff ready. I not only finished all the spreadsheets today I also finished the score sheets I use, including adding the scores from last Spring so teachers can immediately see the difference. So it was a very tedious day but it was also productive.

While I worked on that stuff I continued listening to the first Harry Potter audiobook. The same one I started awhile ago in my car and then lost my progress and my car couldn't fast forward fast enough so I abandoned it. But I'm back, and work is a much better environment than my car because I can listen to it for longer periods of time. I started it yesterday and today I made it to the final chapter. So depending on my work schedule tomorrow I should be able to finish it and maybe start book two.

This afternoon I got away from my computer for a little bit to go across the hall and help the gifted teacher with her tablet and laptop. Her tablet will connect to the wifi but it doesn't actually connect to the internet. I tried some things and read some forums and tried some other things but nothing worked. If it were mine, I would probably back stuff up and restore the whole thing. Wipe it and start fresh. We'll see if she wants to go that route.

As for the laptop, after struggles with laptops last year (mostly because she never turned them in to get updated) she recently got a new one. While I was working on the tablet she was working on the laptop. She needed to install Firefox for one of her programs and I think she picked the wrong thing because when I looked over all this crazy stuff was on the screen and when I looked on the desktop and later in the program list she had several things she didn't need. I started uninstalling stuff but she had to leave before I could finish. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up with her again and get that sorted out.

After work I had a headache and was in no mood to do school stuff. So I didn't. For dinner I ate a spicy black bean burger because I forgot all about the second half of my Chipotle burrito. So often I forget that it is Thursday and I've got a burrito to finish. I usually remember in time to actually eat the burrito but not this time. It's really a win-win though because the burger was delicious and I have the second half of the burrito to look forward to tomorrow.

Tonight I had no real plans related to school stuff. I still had a headache and wasn't in the mood to use my brain but I eventually talked myself into writing a basic outline for what I wanted to say in the two introduction videos I had to record. That led me to setting up my webcam and microphone just to see what it would look and sound like. Which led me to moving a light because the lighting looked weird. And then I ended up just recording both of the videos because I was already 90% there. We were supposed to record them using the online tool in the discussion post. I couldn't get it to recognize my webcam though so I ended up just recording it with OBS and then uploading that video. I felt better about doing it that way anyway, which is another reason I ended up doing both. And because I had already gone that far, I also wrote the introduction I needed to post for my third class. I had planned a very lazy evening and I ended up doing way more than I thought was possible. Go me.

Now I'm going to go to bed so I can wake up in the morning and experience the boredom that is the elliptical. I need to maybe throw in some video instead of music. Maybe that would hold my attention better. We'll see.