Thursday: barrels, bare, belay

They put up several barrels on the way to the kids' school last week Wednesday or Thursday bringing a two lane direction down to one lane.  (It's especially annoying because the didn't block the turn lane.  There are two left turn only lanes but one of them runs right into the barrels so it's always a bit of a crazy mess.)  The one lane makes it harder, although not impossible, to make a left turn out of the parking lot as I'm leaving the school.  I've opted to go right several times instead.

Then on Wednesday they put up more barrels, bringing the single lane all the way through the parking lot where I drop off the kids.

Today they extended the barrels farther down the other direction, which doesn't really impact me.

Do you know what hasn't happened though?  Any work that would require so many barrels for so long.  They're messing up my routine for nothing.

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Both of my classes were missing a surprising amount of people today.  Several were sick, but several just didn't show up.  Apparently summary functions (COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIF, SUMIF) just didn't seem that interesting.  It's too bad, because I use COUNTIF all the time and we had a bunch of good review for ANDs, ORs, and VLOOKUP.  Oh, I'm starting to touch on XLOOKUP too, if anyone cares.  Next semester I need to include it more, but this semester I'm trying to get a start on it.

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I took a belay class at our rock climbing place.  I passed and can now belay anyone, although I expect it'll mainly be my kids.  It was more fun than I was expecting.  I have a feeling that we'll get to know everyone there and I'll be on the floor belaying and I'll have my own equipment and...never actually climb on a rock wall.  Although since the kids are members I could go for mostly free once a month.  We'll see what happens.