August 27, 2015

It is after 11:30PM and I've been tired since long before the sun went down, so hopefully I can make this quick.

This morning at work I filled out a trouble ticket for the color printer in the lab that is showing as offline even though it isn't. Then I went and filled out two more for the printers in the kindergarten and third grade rooms that I knew were doing the same thing. Later in the day I noticed that the printer in the lab was actually alternating between offline and online. I had the window open that shows all the different printers and devices installed on the computer and I could watch the printer slowly going back and forth between being grayed out and being available. It was weird.

I had a lot of downtime at work today so I ended up doing some reading and taking notes for one of my classes. I ended up forgetting to save those notes so they were of no use to me tonight but I managed.

I had a few regular classes in the lab but this afternoon I had a group of third graders come in to type poems they had written. Most of them had never used Word before so I helped them open that, explained a few of the basic things, and then told them to just type. They got to make the poems look better with different fonts and stuff but I didn't want them getting distracted by that stuff, which is inevitable, until they had actually finished typing their poem. This goal was accomplished, for the most part. Once they got to the editing part I showed them more of the basics, and a little advanced stuff (like holding 'ctrl' while highlighting stuff to get multiple selections instead of one big one) so they could make their poems look how they wanted. I think all of the kids that got there early enough managed to finish. And I taught them all how to save so even the ones who didn't finish will be able to come back sometime and finish.

Near the end of the day I got an email from one of the first grade teachers asking if I could make labels for her. She had the label she wanted but it was a PDF and she wanted to add some words to it, including the name of each of her students. I opened the PDF in Gimp and saved it as an image so I could put it in Publisher and add the text. It looks pretty good but I need to check it against actual labels so make sure my version of the labels fit.

I also got an email from one of the third grade teachers who wants me to take pictures of her students and crop them for something. I will hopefully be doing that tomorrow morning sometime.

Tonight I went out to eat with my mom, one of the kindergarten teachers, and her husband. We went to a Mexican restaurant and by the time we left it was being overrun with sorostitutes. It was strange. I also decided that I need to probably just stick with bean burritos and rice because what I got tonight had way too much cheese and sour cream. It was a fun dinner though. As fun as social situations can be when I'm not a social person. On the way out we ran into a few of the kids from school which was cool.

When I got home I wrote my two discussion posts for this week. So much bullshit was laid out. I think I made some good points but I also rambled a lot. I write the kind of posts that I don't read when I see someone else do them. And by that I mean long, rambling posts. Kudos to anyone willing to brave them and actually respond to something I have written. I realized when I got to the metadata post that I hadn't read two of the main articles for this week. I think I just read the textbook. I ended up just skimming through them to get references for my post but I do actually want to go back and read them because they looked interesting.

But not right now because it is midnight and I have to get up in the morning. I'm not looking forward to that. Not getting up for the elliptical and sleeping an extra hour is sounding really tempting. Hopefully the incentive of watching Psych will be enough to get me out of bed.