February 10, 2016

I forgot to mention we lost one of the computers in the lab yesterday. I think it was sometime in the morning when one of the IT guys showed up and said he needed one of the computers because it had a virus. There was a second grade class in the lab at the time and one of them was on that computer so I had him move. Then when I was trying to close out of his stuff and shut the computer down, the IT guy kind of made a big deal out of holding the power button down and saying he had to kill it because it had a virus. Really? It would have been one thing just to say he was going to do it that way because it was faster. Being dramatic about it was a bit much. The virus picked a good candidate to be removed from the lab. A year or a few ago they replaced the computer that was there with the current one and it has been crap ever since. It was immediately the slowest computer in the lab and it basically just sucked. My second choice would be the one with the tiny hard drive that I have to keep deleting profiles off of to free up space. Hopefully that one will be next.

Now we're down to twenty-five computers in the lab, which would be fine but one of the second grade classes has twenty-six kids. When that class came in later in the day the kid who normally sits at the computer with a virus did Compass Learning on an iPad instead. It seemed to work out but in the future we may need to switch to a laptop. Fingers crossed the IT guys fix the computer in a reasonable amount of time. Or maybe replace it with one on par with the rest of the ones in the lab. That bar is pretty low.

Today I spent a lot of time editing photos for the sixth grade slideshow. There were also several classes in the lab throughout the day. I corresponded with my partner a couple times throughout the day regarding the weekly assignment. I'm kind of taking the lead on this which is fine with me because he kind of took it last semester. We decided to look at a journal instead of a database because that seemed more manageable. For the assignment we have to evaluate the resource using two parts from an appendix in an article we read. Both parts only have a handful of questions so we decided that we would both come up with answers for all of the questions because a lot of them are subjective. Then we'll swap answers and each take one of the parts to write about. So I might write about the answers to the first part, using both of our responses, and he would write about the second part. This way if we do have differing perspectives on the subjective questions we can include both in our write-up. That will involve a little more work for both of us but there really isn't much work to begin with and I think our final product will be better for it.

After work I went to Chipotle, ordered flowers for my mom and sister for Valentine's Day, paid a bill, and got a Powerball ticket. A fairly productive but expensive trip home. Tonight instead of watching several shorter videos after dinner played The Big Fat Quiz of Everything throughout dinner and then for awhile afterward because it was so long. I would say it was worth it though because both my mom and sister enjoyed the show. Over the years we have watched a few Big Fat Quiz shows and I believe they have always been well received.

After dinner I toyed with the idea of working on my partner assignment but by 9:30PM I gave up on that idea and played Firewatch. The game has me intrigued. I still like wandering around the woods and the story is picking up. I have about four and a half hours in the game now and I have no idea how long the game is supposed to be. Other than watching a few trailers before the game came out, I have avoided everything else. I'm interested to watch some videos and livestreams to see what choices other people are making but I'm not going to do that until I finish the game to avoid spoilers. I did the same with Life Is Strange and I am glad I did. I'm curious to see how much impact my choices will have on the outcome. I'm not even sure if there are different endings. So far the only real choices are conversational but I could see those choices leading to different outcomes. We'll see. The ended may be right around the corner. Or I could only be halfway done. The time isn't entirely accurate considering how much time I have spent ignoring the story and just walking around and taking screenshots. So who knows. I'll enjoy it while it lasts. And then maybe play it again and make different choices if I find out there are several different endings.

Now I'm going to go to bed because it is after one o'clock in the morning and I am freaking tired. Tomorrow I am going to do my part of the group project and send that to my partner. I would also like to take the second quiz for my technology class. There isn't a time limit on it but unlike the first quiz we can only take it once. I'm worried there are going to be some oddly worded questions like there were on the first quiz. That is why I have avoided it for so long. Anyway, bed time.