Saturday: things

 The Christmas Ruiner babies showed back up.  I tried to put them in to-be-sorted, but they came back with a sign that said I had to keep them.

We finally went to get our COVID boosters today.  We were told that insurance denied the shot for the kids - apparently they're supposed to get them at the doctor's office.  However, a few months ago we were told that the doctor's office wouldn't have the shot for the kids.  So this sounds fun.  Hopefully the doctor's office is stocking the kids' version now.  I don't understand why this is a thing.

My upper arm is slightly sore but not too bad.

Grading is progressing well.  Kitchen cleaning, on the other hand, is not.

Thursday: math

Joshua's class has been doing a lot of measuring lately and his teacher has been sending a lot of pictures.  It's been fun to see.

Wednesday: stuff I find interesting

 Dec 13 is Ear Day.  What is Ear Day you ask?  It's when the kids' ears are most delicious and so I try to eat them.  I also make chocolate ears to eat since the kids don't let me eat theirs.  How did this start?  A year or two ago it came up as a silly conversation, and so now we have an ear day.

I haven't had a nap the last two days so both kids hoped that I got one today and Isaac even put Giraffe next to Grey Bear so I could nap with both.  I did have a nap and it was a very good one.

My advent calendar today and two surprises.  First, all the baby Ruiners tried to make themselves a gift by going in one of the already opened days.  Aren't they cute.  The day I opened today told me to open half of another square.  Half!?  I opened half of the bottom left one and there is just a piece of paper that says "hahahaha" on it.

We were working on a harder version of a boss tonight in WoW and the raid leader said, "If we all just stay alive, we've got this."  Yeah.  I mean, he's not wrong.  

Tuesday: a good end

 The day was a bit weird.  Not terrible or even bad, but different than I had expected.

Ben and I raided tonight in WoW.  It was a really good raid and we were clearing content really quickly.  We had just killed the penultimate boss when a dead person said, "I can rez here, right?"  Someone else said yes but a breath later I processed the question and said, "No no you don't want to do that no!"  (Which since I don't talk much probably surprised the whole raid.)

Anyway, for the next ten minutes I was in tears laughing.  Two weeks ago I did the same thing and felt every single emotion that the other person did.  "Oh, I'll take this portal."  "Oh, I am still in the same place."  "Oh, I'll fly to the right spot." "Oh, I can't find it."  "Ok, I'll die and then go to the right spot."  "Nope, that didn't work either."  "Maybe I'll leave the raid and come back tomorrow."  I couldn't stop laughing and Ben just kept turning on his push-to-talk to let the whole raid hear it.  I do think that it brought appropriate attention to how hard it is to find the right path and so people went to go find him.

Monday: Moodle, day 2

Long story short, Moodle came back on-line today around 2pm.  They reverted back to a save from Sunday at 7am, and that caught a lot of stuff.  At least, it seemed to catch almost all of my stuff.  The final exam was a bit annoying because everyone had to email me their files instead of uploading them, but it is workable.  

I also almost couldn't find the printed version of the final exam.  A student worker had been tasked with bringing it to my office and put it in a different, although connected, room.

I was tired while making dinner.  Isaac kept trying to get me to do some exercises to wake me up and I finally told him I just wanted to complain about it.

I have a lot of grading to do in the coming week, but I feel like it is a normal amount for the end of a semester.  There is one assignment that needs to be graded, a few miscellaneous items, and then the final.  I'm hoping that I can steadily work away at it and it won't be too big of a deal.

Well, I guess that's all for now.

Sunday: Moodle and Christmas Ruiners

There were two surprises today.  First is that Moodle, the website for organizing class stuff, was down today.  It's been down since at least noon, and it is still down.  Normally this would be a minor problem, but it is exam week this coming week and students can't access material they need.  I have the first exam slot tomorrow!  I had been all excited because that's the best time slot, but my excitement has been dampened.

Now, I have been somewhat proactive.  I sent out some of the study guides and class recordings this afternoon.  I've sent out links for the homework instructions too, because it was all in google drive.  However, I did remind students that I have a firm policy that no late homework is accepted after the exam, even if there is an emergency.  This isn't the emergency I envisioned, but I'm holding the policy firm anyway - the homework was already late and they were warned multiple times.

The Dean's Council also sent out an email with some suggestions.  I'm letting students have a bit more time and will double check the grades between the two classes to make sure there isn't a huge difference.  I don't expect there will be.  Most students seem to have the material down.

It will be annoying, but just annoying, if Moodle is still down in the morning.  They'll have to email me the files instead of submitting them to Moodle, so it'll take a bit more time organizing everything.

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Secondly, the Christmas Ruiners were out in force today!  Yesterday one just had a few babies, but today there were a ton baby Ruiners!  They were trying to steal my coat.  And just like all babies, they are super cute.

One of them also left me a poorly spelled and written letter saying their dad was trapped in the top of the microwave, so the first thing I got to do was save a Ruiner.

Honestly, it's been so much fun.  The little guys hide everywhere so I'm finding them throughout the day.  There was one in the carrots, one in a stocking, and several just around.

Saturday: helpful

It was a good day today.  It had been a bit of a week, so we all just stayed home and enjoyed that.  It also felt like we were especially helpful today.  Joshua was willing to find me a Lego piece and bring down a tray, I was willing to go help him wrap a present, we cooperatively helped each other win a game.  I'll admit, it also seemed like a loud day, but for the most part it was a happy loud and so Ben and I don't ask for quiet too much.  Some.  No stomping.  But some of it we let go too.

However, the Christmas Ruiners were not helpful.  I opened another one of my advent calendar doors to find a note that said to open a second door.  No Christmas Ruiners in either door!  I think they all left during the night.