What a beautiful day it is outside! 29°
here in Hubbardston, MA, 27° in Bonners Ferry ID, 28° in Yreka, CA, and 48° in
Dublin, Ireland. I think I should make that Dublin temperature a random thing.
Try 28° in Moscow, Russia.
Well, yesterday was, as usual, an
interesting day. The trip to Worcester with Paul to get the Jetta was fairly
uneventful. He got me from the repair shop to 146 or whatever the highway was
and from there it was a piece of cake but only because I’d been down there so
many times last month. The excitement happened once I was about 50 feet from
the east entrance to the driveway. I heard a thunk, which isn’t a big deal
considering the state of our road, but then a dragging sound. I had no idea
what it could be but figured that I was close enough to home to just drive into
the driveway as usual (which means the west entrance to the driveway). It was
the tail pipe. It was still attached in the front but the wire that was holding
it up in back gave out. Laura put it back up last night after we got home from
church.
As soon as I got home, I showered and
got ready to go to school so my Economics group could go over our presentation.
Only Bev and I showed up. She said she’d seen Kyle and he said he wouldn’t be
able to stay but we have no idea about the other two. We discovered that my
slides do not work quite the way I wanted them to. I have them set up so that
more information is added on the click and when I do it on my laptop, or on the
computer at school, it works fine. Using the remote clicker at school it did
not work fine. I get too much information all at once. I could deal with this
but would rather not so Bev is going to sit by the computer and click it for me
when I need. I think it will work out alright.
After that, I went to the ABG meeting
and it was just a club meeting. I’m not sure what I was expecting but I think I
might continue to go just for the heck of it. Two members of my Management
class are in it as is one of the women in my English class from last semester.
They’re having a bake sale next month for St. Patrick’s Day that might be
interesting. Yesterday there was pizza involved. Anyway, it’s kind of a way for
me to get out of my box, so to speak, which is a good thing.
As you know from yesterday’s post, there
were four children home when I got home. While not expected, it was okay. We
got Valentine’s done which meant I had to get a list of kiddos in Joseph’s
class because I never saw one (I’m sure he brought one home but I don’t always
see everything because he likes to empty his folder and backpack in unusual
places and then his papers trickle over to the table and often get waylaid).
That wasn’t too difficult because I am friends with his teacher on Facebook and
have an email address for Will and Luke’s mom (and a phone number). I figured a
two-pronged attack would be good and it was perfect. Luke’s mom emailed me a
list.
We had leftovers for supper and then
headed out to church early. Partly because I wanted to get there early to get
the kitchen cleaned, partly because I was expecting to meet someone to work on
family history at 7:00, and partly because I didn’t have time to do anything at
home and wanted to be doing. Church was good. Everyone had their usual
activities and I helped the Young Women with family history. I didn’t really do
much but I do need to find out some information which is good because I need to
know it for myself as well as for them.
On our way home we noticed that Joanna
was still at work. We got home and I sent everyone to bed. Then I got to work
on the presentation that we are to present today in Management. Our group
leader was sick and not going to work on it. The girl who was working on it had
other things to do including take care of her daughter and other homework. She
was stressing out because she hadn’t gotten her baking done and etc. I worked
on it. I took what had been done, which was a combination of everyone in the
group’s efforts minus one who had only just discovered that the reason he
couldn’t do anything on his computer at home was because he only had PowerPoint
Viewer. He got everything done that he needed to, and then some, on the
computers at the library in a relatively short amount of time spanning two
days. He posted it last night and all I had to do was click and drag it from
what he had done to the one that was the work in progress. After that, there
was just some going over for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and rearranging.
The big problem was that once I was about done and ready to save, I had a
problem with the program and lost everything that I had done. I needed to redo
everything. I was not excited. I was on my way to bed with thoughts of dealing
with it this morning when I thought, “Nope, it’s only 11:35, if I don’t do it
tonight, it isn’t going to get done in time.” So I sat down and did it.
Amazingly, because I’d just done it and was familiar with what I was doing, it
went much faster the second time and I was done not more than an hour later. I
posted the finished product at 12:46 along with a message and went to bed.
It is good to start the day with a good
attitude and be willing to take whatever comes. If you can do that with a smile,
so much the better.
Today is another day. What surprises
will it hold?
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