One of the assignments in my class is to do something with a picture. (There's more to the assignment to make it worthwhile.) Anyway, it's fun to see what the students come up with. Some put a lot of time into it, some put the bare minimum. This one is actually a bit in the middle but the first one I've seen with a title.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Wednesday: errands
I got a lot of errands completed today. I didn't get much else done, but oh well.
It started at the dentist. It was an ok appointment, other than I had a "large gag" reflex. I'm going to be honest, it felt like a normal gag reflex. When you stick something large in my mouth and all the way to the back we should be happy I only gag twice. Also, the fact that you can't get a picture of the root of one in the middle back doesn't seem like my fault. Anyway, it is done for six months.
It turned out that I only had 11 items to get at the grocery store, so I had enough time to get groceries. I give myself a gold medal. I came in just under $100.
I got gas. It was the first time I've had to wait for gas in quite a while, but I usually don't try to get it at 11:30.
I had lunch with a friend.
I stopped by the library.
I finally got home and took my nap. There were a bunch of friends waiting for me. I had a bit more time to do some chores, but I really didn't get much done before I had to pick up the kids.
Between dropping off the kids at church in the evening and karate I also stopped at GFS, just to round out the errands.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Tuesday: Middle School Move up
Tonight we had middle school move up night. Joshua had his first band concert. There's a chance it will be his last too...he's having a hard time deciding between Spanish and band next year.
After the concert Joshua elected to go around to all the stations by himself and get his card stamped. I felt a little bad for not joining him, but he wanted to go by himself and I have a good idea of what will happen next year since Joshua is the second child.
Monday, April 20, 2026
Periodically: rocks in the house
The frequency that these rocks show up has gone down a bit in the last few years, but it also happens more than I would expect.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Saturday: storms
We've had a lot of storms recently and Horizon doesn't like them. He usually hides behind a toilet. Last night we found him under the sink, but he did seem rather relaxed there when I checked on him.
We also had Lego group tonight, although I'm not sure much was done with Legos tonight. The kids played outside quite a bit on the trampoline and ghost in the graveyard and the food was delicious. It was just a really nice night.
Friday, April 17, 2026
Friday: Vox Machina
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Wednesday: vindicated
I don't use AI very often. What tends to happen is I'll try something I think is rather straightforward and it will fail completely. This leads me to not use it as often.
There are some things I've asked of it that work.
The other day though, I asked it to do something that I thought was very simple. It needed to look through a table on Wikipedia and return the image URL. It would not work. It just made up links that looked very realistic.
Ben uses AI on a more regular basis, so he gave it a try. Not because I needed the information anymore, but because I wanted to know what I was doing wrong. Well, Ben tried pretty hard and couldn't get it. It turns out that part of the reason was that Wikipedia was blocking the AI generator.
I was rather relieved. I was glad that it actually didn't work and it wasn't just me.





