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Aug. 31st, 2016 09:30 amScott spent another three hours on the phone with Comcast last night, and they ended up concluding that we will need a technician in to figure out what the problem is because we ought to have service and simply don’t. Even the TV stuff which we had before doesn’t work. Our appointment window is 8:00 to 11:00 this morning. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be up yet.
I did a good bit more writing yesterday, all on the Amber AU. It’s over 25000 words now. I still have no idea how to end it or how to get the first part to a reasonable point for the time skip that needs to happen.
I complained to the library a few days ago that there isn’t a way, when looking at online records for the DVDs they own, to tell which ones actually have captioning. I mentioned some specific series that I abandoned due to lack of captioning. No one has responded to my complaint, but suddenly, two of the series that I said didn’t have captions are in my holds queue. I really have no idea what’s going on with that. As far as I can tell, looking at the records, they’re still the old editions that, you know, don’t have captioning and that I couldn’t follow because of that. It’s very weird. I mean, why do that? If they’re new editions with captions, why not just tell me and let me decide when I want to check them out? If they’re not, why on earth would I want them?
We got the email yesterday telling us what homeroom Cordelia will have. She’ll be with the math and science teacher who is male. His introduction letter read to me like he was trying way, way too hard. I’m sure he’s qualified in his subjects (the school is extremely picky about who they hire), but he wrote a giant block of text with no paragraph breaks and, in places, with no actual relationship between the sentences that follow one another. The letter’s a PDF, so it’s not like space was an issue, and it only runs half a page, so paragraph breaks wouldn’t actually make it run a second page anyway.
The school’s current method of communication is to send emails to all parents that contain links to pages that will download a PDF without asking if it’s okay. At this point, of course, I know that that’s going to happen, but it still annoys me, particularly because the links look like I’m just going to open a document by clicking. Getting into my web browser and downloading takes extra time. I expect that they’re trying to make the emails smaller. A lot of the documents include graphics and photos that must take a lot of space, and it’s probably easier to apply the same process for all mailings than to look at each and decide.
Scott is definitely working Sunday this weekend and says he thinks he’ll end up working Saturday, too. Saturday is a maybe because the sign up sheet was weird and someone may have signed up in the wrong place (a full time employee in a temp slot). If he did sign up in the wrong place, then all the slots might be covered. We don’t know yet. Scott’s working 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Saturday no matter what. It just would be nice for him not to have a third twelve hour day this week.
Scott’s family is trying to schedule a gathering this weekend. I’ve told them that Sunday won’t work, so now they’re pushing for a firm commitment to either Saturday or Monday. I’m pretty sure they’re hoping to get everyone out in their boat because every time we’ve tried to do that this summer, the weather has turned bad. Cordelia says she’s not interested in going to the fair the way she and her father normally do on Labor Day, so I suppose we could go.
I just really don’t want us out late on Monday, and if we go up on Monday, we won’t get home until 9:00 or even 9:30 unless I nag horribly and force Scott and Cordelia out the door. School starts the next day, and I worry that Cordelia wouldn’t be properly rested and prepared. We also need to fit grocery shopping in some time during the weekend. I expect it to be a bit fraught as we try to figure out what Cordelia’s willing to take in her lunches and whether that’s enough food to get her through until 3:00 when the school day ends.
They haven’t given us any sort of list of school supplies yet. They keep saying that the district will supply everything and then asking us to buy all sorts of stuff that the teachers consider essential but that the district can’t afford— binders and composition books and combination locks, that sort of thing. The district also won’t pay for Kleenex or hand sanitizer or more than a certain amount of paper per school. We have decent computer stuff because there’s a millage just for that, but basic supplies… no, we can’t afford everything we need that way.
I did a good bit more writing yesterday, all on the Amber AU. It’s over 25000 words now. I still have no idea how to end it or how to get the first part to a reasonable point for the time skip that needs to happen.
I complained to the library a few days ago that there isn’t a way, when looking at online records for the DVDs they own, to tell which ones actually have captioning. I mentioned some specific series that I abandoned due to lack of captioning. No one has responded to my complaint, but suddenly, two of the series that I said didn’t have captions are in my holds queue. I really have no idea what’s going on with that. As far as I can tell, looking at the records, they’re still the old editions that, you know, don’t have captioning and that I couldn’t follow because of that. It’s very weird. I mean, why do that? If they’re new editions with captions, why not just tell me and let me decide when I want to check them out? If they’re not, why on earth would I want them?
We got the email yesterday telling us what homeroom Cordelia will have. She’ll be with the math and science teacher who is male. His introduction letter read to me like he was trying way, way too hard. I’m sure he’s qualified in his subjects (the school is extremely picky about who they hire), but he wrote a giant block of text with no paragraph breaks and, in places, with no actual relationship between the sentences that follow one another. The letter’s a PDF, so it’s not like space was an issue, and it only runs half a page, so paragraph breaks wouldn’t actually make it run a second page anyway.
The school’s current method of communication is to send emails to all parents that contain links to pages that will download a PDF without asking if it’s okay. At this point, of course, I know that that’s going to happen, but it still annoys me, particularly because the links look like I’m just going to open a document by clicking. Getting into my web browser and downloading takes extra time. I expect that they’re trying to make the emails smaller. A lot of the documents include graphics and photos that must take a lot of space, and it’s probably easier to apply the same process for all mailings than to look at each and decide.
Scott is definitely working Sunday this weekend and says he thinks he’ll end up working Saturday, too. Saturday is a maybe because the sign up sheet was weird and someone may have signed up in the wrong place (a full time employee in a temp slot). If he did sign up in the wrong place, then all the slots might be covered. We don’t know yet. Scott’s working 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Saturday no matter what. It just would be nice for him not to have a third twelve hour day this week.
Scott’s family is trying to schedule a gathering this weekend. I’ve told them that Sunday won’t work, so now they’re pushing for a firm commitment to either Saturday or Monday. I’m pretty sure they’re hoping to get everyone out in their boat because every time we’ve tried to do that this summer, the weather has turned bad. Cordelia says she’s not interested in going to the fair the way she and her father normally do on Labor Day, so I suppose we could go.
I just really don’t want us out late on Monday, and if we go up on Monday, we won’t get home until 9:00 or even 9:30 unless I nag horribly and force Scott and Cordelia out the door. School starts the next day, and I worry that Cordelia wouldn’t be properly rested and prepared. We also need to fit grocery shopping in some time during the weekend. I expect it to be a bit fraught as we try to figure out what Cordelia’s willing to take in her lunches and whether that’s enough food to get her through until 3:00 when the school day ends.
They haven’t given us any sort of list of school supplies yet. They keep saying that the district will supply everything and then asking us to buy all sorts of stuff that the teachers consider essential but that the district can’t afford— binders and composition books and combination locks, that sort of thing. The district also won’t pay for Kleenex or hand sanitizer or more than a certain amount of paper per school. We have decent computer stuff because there’s a millage just for that, but basic supplies… no, we can’t afford everything we need that way.
