January 27, 2016

 Today happened. It wasn't a very eventful day. This morning one of the office ladies asked if I could make a report for her showing the attendance of the preschool kids for a specific period of time for an audit or something. At first I thought she only wanted some of the kids, which was causing me a bit of grief, but once I figured out she needed all of the kids it was a piece of cake. The report for attendance already existed I just had to create a filter for the grade so that it picked up all of the preschoolers.

We had a character assembly this morning and after that I had a class in the lab and had some kids finish up MAP tests. This afternoon I had one scheduled test and one class that had some kids finishing tests. In my free time and during the tests I tried to figure out an iPad that was showing up when plugged into a computer but the internal storage folder was empty. The preschool wanted pictures off of it but that wasn't happening. Normally there is a DCIM folder in there with the pictures but even that folder was missing. The closest mention of it that I could find online was an empty DCIM folder and all the solutions for resolving that failed to solve my issue. I finally installed iTunes and tried looking for the iPad in there but it wouldn't connect because the iPad had been set up with a different computer. That's when I admitted defeat.

Sometime after lunch the fifth grade teacher popped in to tell me that I one of the laptops in her room started smoking when a kid plugged in the power cord. She wanted to tell me in person because she was worried if a kid told me it might turn into a blazing inferno. I've seen a lot of things at work but never a smoking laptop. I had one of the kids bring it down later and I was hoping to get a look at where the adapter port connects to the motherboard but when I opened up the laptop I saw that I needed hex drivers and I would have had to take apart the entire laptop. I'm already not supposed to do a lot of the things I do with computers at work and taking a laptop completely apart would certainly be frowned upon. I went up to check the cart just in case there was something obviously wrong there but there wasn't so I had the teacher put in a trouble ticket. It seems like best case scenario it is a faulty adapter or the battery is dying. Worst case scenario is the port broke loose from the motherboard, which would require a bit of work to fix. Or maybe it is something else entirely. Either way, I unplugged the adapter from the back of the laptop cart so students don't accidentally plug it in again.

After work I picked up Chipotle and remembered to get a burrito bowl. I should have asked for extra rice and beans, though, because half of the bowl was pretty weak. Normally the bowls are overflowing so I didn't think it was necessary. I ended up having a little bit of my quinoa enchiladas with my chips so it was all good. They also didn't have lemons, which are the perfect compliment to the bowl, but thankfully we had lemon juice at home.

After dinner I played a lot of videos. Mostly motivated by my desire not to do homework. That was successful because I ended up not doing any homework the rest of the night. It's not good that my lack of motivation is so strong this early in the semester. I also forgot all about the class meeting tonight. Those aren't required, which is probably one of the reasons it wasn't prominent on my radar, and they are recorded so I can watch it tomorrow. I had the same professor over the summer for Web Design and very few people attended the video meetings so hopefully that is the case here so I don't feel so bad. It also seemed like the teacher lost interest with the concept as the semester went on because they became less frequent. I'm saying all this so I don't feel bad about forgetting the one tonight.

Later tonight the librarian at school texted me and said the principal mentioned me at the board meeting tonight and talked about all the stuff I did in the lab and outside of it. I don't know the context of it but that is pretty cool. My sister found an archive of the meetings so hopefully tonight's was recorded and I can watch it tomorrow.

It is now almost 11:30PM, I have accomplished nothing academically, and I am tired, so I am going to go to bed. I really want to wake up in the morning and exercise. I was perfectly awake this morning when my alarm went off at six o'clock but I stayed in bed until seven o'clock and I think I ended up being more tired. I need to start exercising. And being productive.