Spent the evening updating my WordPress installation. I had a few moments of worrying, when I navigated to the home page and nothing came up. Turns out that during the uploading of new files, the old themes were deleted. Once I logged into the admin side and reassigned a theme, things were back to normal. Yah!
I’ve another mental note to make: don’t put blankets and other bedding in the washer after nine on a work night.
Throughout the day I think of different topics I’d like to post to this blog, however by the time I get to a computer with time to write I’ve forgotten them. I’m considering a “hipster PDA” to help me keep track of things. Seems like a much cheaper option than spending money on a piece of electronics that I might not use.
My worry is that even if I put these thought down, I don’t think it’d be that interesting. Like all the conversations and reasons I have in my head, sometimes it’s better to not share.
Currently listening to Two Gallants “Nothing to You“.
I think of all sorts of witty things to share throughout the day, but when it comes time to set something down to the blog.. Nothing. One of the things I have considered is going back through all the “stories” I wrote in school and sharing them with everyone. Don’t know if that would be entertaining, I’m thinking it might be more embarrassing than anything.
Or.. I need to spend time fixing the template for the site and connect my flickr and picasa web accounts to this blog.
yep, nothing like a big boom to make the whole site a lot more exciting.
Watched grackles kick up leaves in the background this afternoon looking for insects and other grubs. If the weather had been warmer, I might have joined them with a rake. Instead, I spent the afternoon, uninstalling baseboard heaters from 6 rooms. Now I have to find a way to get rid of the registers, not to mention I still need to get around to fixing the wall holes, baseboard trim and painting. Owning a home is a never ending source of projects.
I gave my boss a letter of resignation this morning. It’s official, my last day at my job is April 11th. My first day as Instructional Technologist is April 14th. Know I’m thinking I should have padded that time a bit and take a bit of time off, since I won’t have any break for three months. oh well, at least I’ll have a few three day weeks with Memorial weekend in May.
This is part of the job description for my new job that I think is the most exciting!
This position will research and implement new methods of multimedia to add to existing courses and train instructors on how to apply the methods to each course section. The Instructional Technologist will be part of a team to evaluate existing course(s) from a technological point of view and add resources to enhance the students’ overall learning experience.
Sent in a reservation form for fields for summer league. Hopefully, I get the space. Fields that are centrally located and able to host numerous teams are going to be harder and harder to reserve. I may not get them this year for summer league. We’ll see.
Talk on the forum today about changing fields yet again. There are so many things I would like to contribute, but I’m not participating in the conversation. I’ve found its much better to hold the tongue than to incite a riot. But it did get me to thinking about places for a possible Saturday event/picnic. I called Parks and Rec and found out that the shelter I want to reserve is booked until mid June on Saturdays. I’m still going to have to drive by the location and check out the field space, because it sounds “ideal.” Shelter, soccer field, bathrooms, volleyball, playground, gravel trail all in one tidy location.
Mental note: need to reserve parks and rec. shelters at least three months in advance.
Can’t fall asleep and the clock has slowing ticked past midnight. My head was buzzing with all the things that I need to start, finish or any of the various stages in between. However, now that I’ve gotten up and turned on the computer to write a few things down, I don’t remember what those few things were.
Here’s a video of Jonathan Coulton singing Creepy Doll. Funny and good music too. He was interviewed on TWiT a few weeks ago, talking about how he got into making music. A very interesting story.
Currently watching The Last King of Scotland. I’ve turned on the English subtitles to make out some of the stronger accents. Ah.. that’s all I can say at the moment, since the movie is still moving along.. though I fear that things are about to change for the worse.
Finished filling out tax forms late last night. Exciting right? I think this is the first year I didn’t have to send some form of payment for owed taxes and that’s definitely exciting. Submitted them this morning. 
YAH! It means I can take taxes are off my list of things to get done. Which is good since I’ve added reserving fields for summer league. Not sure how the reservations will work out when I change jobs.
Ze Frank video for the week. Just say no to brain crack.
Several years ago I started a blog, but after a year or so it fell onto the back burner and so I decided to take it down. This is my first foray into starting over.