August 26, 2015

This morning's episode of Psych involved the near murder of a tennis player. It also involved me running on the elliptical for twenty-five minutes. I need to bump it back up to at least thirty minutes but it is just so easy to not.

I sent out my email today looking for work around the school and got a couple responses but no definitive work. And it looked like the responses I got will be short-lived. I might have to start taking my homework to work.

I put my new shortcuts webpage on one of the computers in the lab today and immediately discovered an issue. I tested my page using Chrome, not really thinking about the fact that the default browser on all of the computers is Firefox. When I opened the page up everything displayed bigger, so it wasn't all visible at once (I didn't want stuff hidden and have kids scrolling to see everything) and the images were a bit scattered instead of being lined up nicely. This led me back to the drawing board and a lot of tweaking ensued. I found out there is a way in CSS to tweak just the code for Firefox. I want to call it a media query, or at least similar to one because the initial code starts with '@', which is what I associate with a media query. Anyway, I wrote a bit of code and then all the CSS I included in the brackets following that code only affected the appearance of the page when it was opened in Firefox. I tried a bunch of stuff but I ended up only needed a few lines of CSS to get things sorted out, and now it looks almost identical in both browsers. After that I put the page on a few different computers and I'm going to let it sit there until next week maybe to make sure it doesn't disappear over the weekend.

I made another quote picture for the school librarian to put on Twitter if she wants. I think she has only used a couple of the ones I have made but I like making them so I'll probably keep it up. At some point I might even make some for myself and actually start tweeting. Today's was a Winnie the Pooh quote that said “It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'” The background of the image is a golden color that is actually a zoomed in picture of Pooh's belly and kind of looks like honey. I like how it turned out.

I helped the new sixth grade teacher put in a trouble ticket for three of her laptops. Later in the day I learned about at least a few printers around the building, including one in the lab, that are showing as offline. The librarian emailed one of the tech guys about it and he said it was unrelated to the reboot they did yesterday and we needed to put in trouble tickets for them. Unrelated to the reboot yet they were working perfectly before the reboot and immediately after they stop working. I would accept coincidence if it was just a single printer, maybe, but it is at least three. I call bullshit, but whatever, tomorrow I'll go around and submit trouble tickets for people.

I taught one of the first grade classes how to log into the computers today. It was a bit rough but it could have been worse. I explained one step at a time, showing them on the big keyboard picture I have at the front of the lab, and then walked around to them individually in between each step. Some caught on quicker than others. Like the second grade class from yesterday, this class also has a kid who only speaks Spanish and one who only speaks Chinese. The Chinese girl caught on pretty quick but they both managed it just as well as the rest of the class. It would be nice if next time goes a little better but they only come in once a week so most of them will probably be back at square-one next week.

Some other things happened today but they were minor and I want to go to bed so lets skip forward to after work. At Chipotle the first girl was new which resulted in a tiny burrito. Thank god I asked for extra rice and beans because if I hadn't I would have ended up with a burrito the size of a taco. Before heading home I went and got my Powerball ticket. I ended up getting a few more than usual because earlier the cashier had accidentally printed out a few and asked if I wanted them, too. I obviously had to pay for them but I said what the heck. They might be the lucky ones. Statistically unlikely but who cares.

After dinner I showed my videos and my sister threw in a few minions-related videos. Two with wiener dogs in minions costumes with the minions voices added in, and then a compilation of funny minions moments from the movies. They were enjoyable.

I only managed to read part of a chapter tonight. Sixteen pages. Adding books and other items to a library collection should be interesting but reading about it is super boring. It was putting me to sleep and I just couldn't do it. I kept having to re-read stuff because I found myself repeatedly just spacing out as I read. Tomorrow I think I'll read the stuff I need to make my discussion posts and then hopefully write those. I'll come back to the boring chapter after that.

And now I'm going to go to bed. I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. I need to get more sleep so I'm not completely wiped out at night and unable to work on my schoolwork.