December 16, 2015

This morning before work I briefly played Tera in a party with Turps. I ended up breaking the party up because I was a few levels higher than him and apparently that completely wrecks the XP gain for both the lower and the higher character. It's also apparently not like it was on the PvE server I was on before where whoever gets the first hit gets the credit for the kill. Or maybe they've just changed it. Now it is based on whoever does the most damage. I was letting him hit mobs first but then I would wreck them and end up getting the credit. Oh well. It was fun to run around and play for a bit.

I really didn't have much to do at work so I made word searches based on Words Their Way. I decided to make one word search for each sort or list of words in the green book, because that is the one my second grade group are using. I used a website where I could pick the size of the puzzle and then typed in all the words in the list to make the word search. It was basically typing practice with a more productive output. I ended up making it through list forty today, and each list has twenty-four words, so that's a lot of typing.

I helped out for the first part of literacy centers in kindergarten this morning and I am glad I didn't have to stay for the whole time. My group wasn't the best and it would have been really frustrating trying to keep them on task for thirty minutes.

The SPED teacher who has been waiting for her laptop to be fixed for over a month finally got it back today. And then couldn't log into it. They say they check these things before giving them back but they obviously don't. They need to actually have the teacher get on the computer and make sure everything is working. She brought it down to me, even more upset than when she was waiting for it to be fixed.

The first trick was getting onto the computer, because you can't log into any of the school computers, laptop or desktop, if it isn't connected to the network. This is especially annoying when the internet goes down and the computers can't be used at all. After being unable to connect to the wireless (which is why the teacher had been unable to log in) I hardwired it into the network and was able to get in. Going through the troubleshooting thing I got an error that the “wireless network connection” had an invalid IP configuration, or something like that. I tried several things to resolve this issue but didn't want to do too much just in case I messed something else up. I then had a thought and tried connecting to the Guest network instead of the regular school wireless. And it worked. It actually let me connect to the internet. So it's not an ideal solution but it is at least a temporary fix until we can get the laptop fixed again.

There was a band and orchestra concert this afternoon. Orchestra apparently has a greater learning curve because compared to the band, there is a very noticeable difference. It's interesting. I also thing a lot of music played on a violin or cello requires confidence. A player's lack of confidence is magnified by the timid movement of their bow across the strings.

Along with the word searches and the SPED teacher's laptop, I also printed a picture for one of the fifth grade teachers, recreated and fixed one of the third grade teachers' class Christmas card, added a printer to one of the office ladies' temporary laptop, and later made a few adjustments on her desktop computer.

After work I picked up Chipotle and then headed home. I forgot all about getting a Powerball ticket. When I got home I cut out a piece of cloth and got all the threads ready for my Batman owl cross stitch. And then it was time for dinner. My burrito was good and the videos went over well.

I spent the rest of my night cross stitching. It took me about two and a half hours to finish, which is kind of what I was expecting. I streamed it again in order to record it and I plan on making another time-lapse video, maybe this weekend. When I finished I washed it and pinned it out to dry so I can put it in a hoop tomorrow. Then I'll have to figure out my next cross stitch.