08-07-2025, 09:59 AM
(08-07-2025, 08:11 AM)Shannon Wrote: Here's an example.
On the way to breakfast, I discovered that one of my tires was at a dangerously high level of tire pressure, but the others were fine.
On the way home, hit every red light, and had some extremely dumb people "driving" around me as if they were the only one on the road. Girlfriend wanted to stop to get something and I forgot that I had a chiro appointment, so I ended up missing the chiro appointment and losing that money, since it was already paid for.
Got home and started working, only to have my production system lock hard on me, and this forced a hard reset, which lost significant work, which wasted time. Then my cat decided that the bathroom, hallway and kitchen were a better place to have a dump than the damned cat box.
Then I found that I was unable to generate a PDF in LyX for the class syllabus and the coursework to give the students, and fixing that took literally the rest of the day because the download required was slow as hell. The alternative would have been even worse.
At the end, I discovered that that time had been wasted because I could not print the damned PDF out, and I could not distribute the PDF to the students.
Then I attempted to go have dinner, but upon arriving I discovered my phone was not with me, and that had my class notes. I had to turn around and drive home to get it, then drive back to the sub shop to eat.
On the way back to the sub shop, my laptop (supposed to be suspended) had an issue with the video driver that caused a race condition, which overheated the CPU, and caused it to start trying to cool itself off with fans on high, but it was in the laptop case which was zipped shut. I had to pull off to the side of the road and get out of the car to open the back door,. unzip the case and pull the damned thing out of it's case, but I couldn't turn it off because it was so hot that turning it off would have removed cooling and fried the CPU. So I listened to the damned jet engine level fans (Intel sucks) all the way to where I was going.
Upon sitting down to eat, I discovered that my attempt to pair bacon with turkey was unexpectedly awful, and then I had an idiot teenage girl start playing gangsta rap loudly on her phone behind me. In a desperate effort to be calm enough to teach the class, I simply got up and left, and when I arrived at the classroom, I couldn't eat because there were students already present.
It was a fun day indeed.
Hey Shannon, if you don't mind me asking - what is it that you're teaching, and why did you decide to become a teacher?