I woke up this morning around five o'clock to go to the bathroom and
then woke up again three hours later thanks to the dogs barking. I
laid there and after they were outside and the barking had stopped, I
became distinctly aware of how quiet it was. I looked at my alarm
clock and then at my second alarm clock and neither showed the time.
And then I realized that my fan was off, which would explain why it
was so quiet. It was still relatively warm in my room, so the power
hadn't been out for that long but it didn't take long for it to
become progressively colder.
I stayed in bed for a little bit but then got up so I could be
slightly productive. I put on some layers, opened up the curtains in
my computer room, and read a little bit about academic libraries in
my textbook. Would have been nice if I didn't do all my weekly
reading yesterday. Speaking of that, I'm glad I posted my weekly
discussion last night. I didn't actually save the document I typed
up the post in but had a feeling I should post it online instead of
waiting until today. My computer ended up saving everything but it
would have sucked if it hadn't and I lost my post.
After an hour, maybe more, maybe less, the power came back on. Thank
goodness for that. I decided to work on my website and get that
finished so I wouldn't have to worry about it during the week. It is
also due first, so it made sense to get it done first. In the
process of looking up academic libraries I came across a couple that
I might want to use for my collection assessment assignment instead
of the one I picked yesterday.
It ended up taking me until after midnight, and actually working that
entire time, but I finished. I found three libraries for my academic
libraries page and two librarians for my librarians page. I got all
that added into my website, including small descriptions for academic
libraries and academic librarians taken from the ALA website. I also
cut and pasted my introduction from the beginning of class onto the
first page. A lot of time was spent tweaking the code to make
everything look right and respond to resizing. Once I was happy I
logged in remotely to the school's server so I could upload my files
and view my page live on the internet. I went back and forth several
times making small changes to things I had either missed or didn't
quite look the same as they did in my offline preview. For now, I'm
calling it good.
This afternoon I got the best text message ever from the district
notifying me that school is canceled tomorrow. Hooray. That made me
feel better about spending my day solely on the website assignment.
Now, I can spend tomorrow on the assessment assignment. The weather
is supposed to be bad again tomorrow, hence school not happening, but
hopefully the power will stay on so I can work on the assignment. It
would be amazing if I could find a little inspiration and knock a
significant chunk of the assignment out tomorrow. That would reduce
my stress level tremendously.
My new mouse and microphone arrived today. I got to look at my
microphone but didn't want to get distracted by it so I set it off to
the side of my desk. It weighs a lot more than I was expecting.
Which is good because it doesn't feel cheap and it won't be easily
knocked around on my desk. I went as far as to plug my new mouse in
and mess with the DPI a bit to try and get it to where my old mouse
was. The mouse looks really cool and I like all the buttons but I'll
have to wait until I have more time on my hands to actually go
through and set up different profiles and actually make use of the
buttons. After using the mouse for most of the day now I would say
the one downside is the weight. It is so heavy and I'm pretty sure I
can actually notice fatigue in my right wrist from trying to lift it.
Most of the weight is in the back end, too, so when I do lift it the
back end tends to stay on the mouse pad. The mouse has a third
finger button for my ring finger so all the lifting is done with my
thumb and pinky, which makes the weight that much more noticeable. I
am hoping that after awhile I will get used to it
It's now after one o'clock and I'm tired so I'm going to go to bed.
Hopefully I will wake up and the power will still be on in the
morning so I can work on school stuff.
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