The second time you do something is hardly a tradition, but it is definitely a step toward a tradtion!
Week Notes for April 27th
- Listening is always off kilter due to how Last FM does the listening tracking (Thursday to Thursday) but maybe it will catch up one day? Who knows? This is just through the 24th. I definitely need to shut down the Google Chrome plugin for Last FM as it's ruining my stats by putting in interviews and other non-music choices I make on YouTube.
- This week's listening brought to you by the Coachella YouTube live feed, nice weather, new porch furniture, a bluetooth speaker, and oh so affordable Kirkclaws (Costco branded whiteclaws).
- I have been sick since Tuesday night. I think I got some viral bug from one of the many children who were at the house on Easter. The incubation period holds up and I didn't follow my rules for eating at an event where children are present, so that's a great way to catch something.
- I took the week off to recover plus I didn't want to be "that guy" who gets everyone sick the last week of the semester as the stress for finals starts to ramp up. People are going to be wrecked anyway; why contribute?
- I'm trying to figure out how to address these new and decidedly poorer quality students that we are bringing in these days. They have been well-trained to be incapable. I'm starting to make a summer to-do list already for my fall courses.
- I finished moving all my files into a decent order on my NAS and started cleaning out duplicates and broken files. There are a lot. As of today the total storage of the NAS has changed from 8.2TB to 7.9TB. That's significant and shocked me once the NAS wiped the recycle bin. A little goes a long way. My strategy has been to delete about 10 or so things whenever I'm taking a break at the computer.
- Finding all kinds of great old images I didn't know I had! Here's a sample!
- Finishing an essay I've had months and months to work on as the deadline keeps getting pushed back. I'm still not happy with it but I really only have today and tomorrow to finish it up. Been typing away on it during the week.
- Playing a lot of No Man's Sky, amazing game always
- Reading an interesting book on Translation and Henry Giroux's new book on teaching