I don’t recall what season this is from so idk if it’s before they got a better puppet or if it’s later and the puppet had fallen apart a bit… but here’s Salem playing a piano.
So, another week. We’re well into spooky season now and I don’t know where this year is going. Hopefully it’s going into some cool stuff all of you are doing?
My win, I had an ok week at work. Found some really weird bugs and helped debug them. We don’t have a root cause but have a mitigation so they won’t impact other people. And we can reliably reproduce it. It was just an exhausting week.
Looks like my purchase requests for my new CTE course are going through. Got word that as long as we use the little drones I ordered indoors they’re OK. And this morning I got an email from REV that four new MaxSwerve modules are shipped.
Booked flight to visit fam in VA for Thanksgiving. And booked hotel for Tidal Tumble.
Club Rush yielded a LOT of new student interest. Hope they like working hard and stick around.
I let some smoke out of a system a couple weeks back. After rewiring and checking all the components, i successfully started and tested the system… at least as far as I got it before the smoke! No components replaced, either, to my shock.
And my original wiring plan was superior to my modification… at Past EricH.
two of my brothers drove down to stay with us over the weekend and we immediately erupted into a debate over the narrative intricacies of the star wars universe
Successfully managed to extract some details on IRB approval for qualitative research from how things function between department and the grad school. Messy, not clear, needed help, was able to find it. The best case scenario occurred with regard to timelines. It is amazing how unclear some supposedly claimed “straight forward” things can be.
Had a great seminar visit from one of my academic contacts. Brought them in for a talk, lunch, etc. Girlfriend got along really well with them and was even told “you’re the type of student I am looking for”. In a few years they may be taking on a new PhD student, which is my girlfriend’s timeline. So fingers crossed that is a viable option.
My first weekend festival shilling spicy stuff (as opposed to just doing it online/wholesale) is half in the bag and 2/3 to what I would consider a “great weekend”.
We had our first new member meeting on Friday and had about 25 new members show up, compared to 2 students graduating last year and 2 others moving away. It seems like our feeder FLL Programs are working well.
I finally figured out a bug in the robot code and we are fully operational for our off-season competition. Time to do driving practice.
This one was probably a week or two ago, but a win.
Monica, my ex, (divorced in 2001), has not stopped calling me at work from time to time (All my other contacts changed, so that’s all she has left.). All three of our children, @ExploitSage, Veronica, and @PereBear have cut off contact with her; I’ll let you ponder what that means. She called recently on a number without caller ID, at work, so of course I had to answer it. After her opening statement about an oil drain pan and such, I said simply “Perry says that stuff isn’t his. Please stop calling me. Goodbye.” And hung up. I haven’t heard from her since, but I don’t think it will be done anytime soon, but I ended it more quickly than ever before.
Also, this week, I got time off approved for Magnolia, Bayou, and Championship.
It’s down one event from last year, but I can’t do consecutive weeks in good conscience at work.
Any idea on when I can actually volunteer??
We invited our friends from Tower Robotics to a roller skating night. By all reports it was a lot of fun.
Mentoring of our local Elementary and Middle School FLL has begun.
Two of our students are National Merit Semifinalists.
I’m really pleased with how well tryouts for our Cow Town Throw Down drive team are progressing, but a little apprehensive about their applicability to the future as CTTD will very likely be our last go with a West Coast drive.
After a most spirited discussion, the student leadership core decided on which regional events we’re preferencing. [why, oh , why is ‘everything’ week 6 around here!?]
I could almost definitely do it, too, but (a) a NYS teacher’s pension would be a silly thing to walk away from at this point in my career and (b) the older I get, the less and less appealing beekeeping is, physically–doing it at any scale, especially with no employees, is a lot of heavy lifting and repetitive motions, and middle-aged me is less happy with it than younger me.
That said, if I can squeeze, say, an extra $50K a year out of it, that would be very helpful to my “abscond to Costa Rica” plan for retirement.
at Past EricH.
