April 4, 2016

Last night I slept with my heating pad. At least a few times during the night I felt a little twinge, and didn't sleep that well, but the twinge never progressed any further, so that is good.

Today the testing servers were back up so we tested. Sixth grade got a lot of testing done in the morning, trying to knock it out while things were working, and third grade tested in the afternoon. During third grade I noticed that the testing information seemed to update every fifteen minutes, based on the close. So, on the hour, fifteen after, thirty after, and forty-five after. Rather than a kid finishing their test and waiting a random amount of time for the adaptive stuff to take place and assign their next test, it seemed like we just had to wait until one of those fifteen minute increments and the next test would be there. That definitely wasn't the case last week when we had waits much longer than fifteen minutes, and it might not be the case ever again, but it was nice to see a method to the madness. I imagine it is probably easier on the server to only update every fifteen minutes instead of whenever a kid finished a test, but it is also really inconvenient. A lot of kids who didn't finish today could have if they had that down time back.

When I wasn't testing, there were classes in the lab and I worked of pictures. I finally finished editing the new sixth grade teacher's family picture and emailed her that and the portrait of her that I cut out of the family picture. I also had a little time at the end of the day to make a few slides for the end of the year slideshow. I want to include the portraits for this year but I am waiting on the CD to show up that has the high quality images on it. I also need that for the yearbook, so hopefully it shows up soon.

After work I went to the public library and continued working on the flyer list. I am separating it by sections of town and today came up with an order of delivery for the first section. It is an interesting exercise, trying to visualize best routes. The PR lady wants to also have a physical map marked up with each spot and I think next time I might mark everything because I think that will be a little easier than driving around town in my head.

Tonight I replied to a discussion post and read an article about preservation. For the discussion post this week we have to right about a trend or issue in preservation and I think I want to write about video games and emulators. I recently read an article regarding that and I want to see if I can find more information because it is pretty interesting.

Now I'm going to listen to music for a little bit and then go to bed. Tomorrow there will be more testing and probably other things. After work I plan on taking the dwarf librarian drawing to the frame shop. It is frame-worthy and I want to put it on my desk when I get my first library job.