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Mar. 15th, 2020 10:49 pmI got my gold Pioneer badge in Ingress today. That's for capturing 1000 unique portals. I got there because I tagged along when Scott and Cordelia went out for driving practice. We went to Chelsea. When we got there, the streets were pretty empty, and there were a lot of portals in a small area, so I walked around a block while Scott and Cordelia waited in the car (they thought it was too cold out). I needed sixteen portals and got sixteen. I got one more unique capture on the way home, so I now have 1001. I need 5000 for the next badge. I don't really expect that I'll ever manage that many.
Cordelia's choir teacher is the only one, so far, to have let us know anything at all about how the class will go forward. Of course, she's also the one with a completely stable group of students and the pretty certain knowledge that parents will understand that a rehearsal to performance class isn't going to work well this way.
This may well mean that she actually teaches the kids to read music. She doesn't normally do that (although she occasionally tests them on sight reading). Cordelia doesn't like doing it because she hasn't done it very often. She says, though, that she's better at it than most of her classmates because she learned in orchestra and has done a little bit with a keyboard.
The school district is currently saying that instruction is going to be 'centralized' this week because the teachers haven't yet been trained as to how to teach online. I have zero clue what that's supposed to mean but suspect that it's more applicable to elementary school age kids because there's some likelihood that first graders at all schools in town will be learning very similar things. Even in middle school, there's a state curriculum for core subjects.
I have my annual appointment with the sleep disorders clinic tomorrow morning. Since Scott will be able to drive both ways and since I really need some new c-pap headgear, I intend to go. I'll cancel the appointment I have on Friday because rescheduling that will be easy and because my prescriptions there are already up-to-date. Also, while Scott could get me there, he'd have to leave for work before the Friday appointment ended.
I'm trying to decide whether there's a better way to deal with getting home after tomorrow's appointment than calling Scott when I'm done and waiting at the main entrance to the building. I'm up to walking a ways; there just aren't a lot of places where it would make sense for Scott to wait for me that aren't home. It's not warm enough for it to make sense for him to walk around Island Park or some such.
I think I will try to start taking walks now that my knee is doing better. The neighborhood we're in doesn't get a lot of foot traffic, so I'm unlikely to run into anyone. I could use the exercise, and the temperatures outside are currently in a good range for me (40s and 50s F. Any warmer and I overheat).
I think it will take me a while to build up to long walks again, especially since I'll want to be cautious about exhausting myself. Usually, I just figure that I'll stay near a bus route and take that home if I'm done in. I still can do that, but I'd rather not take the bus unnecessarily.
Scott and I watched two Netflix DVDs yesterday. Usually, they sit for weeks, even months (Cordelia's much faster in terms of watching and sending things back). My list of TV/DVD logging is long enough that I've forgotten what some movies are, so hopefully, I'll manage some posts in that direction this week.
Cordelia's choir teacher is the only one, so far, to have let us know anything at all about how the class will go forward. Of course, she's also the one with a completely stable group of students and the pretty certain knowledge that parents will understand that a rehearsal to performance class isn't going to work well this way.
This may well mean that she actually teaches the kids to read music. She doesn't normally do that (although she occasionally tests them on sight reading). Cordelia doesn't like doing it because she hasn't done it very often. She says, though, that she's better at it than most of her classmates because she learned in orchestra and has done a little bit with a keyboard.
The school district is currently saying that instruction is going to be 'centralized' this week because the teachers haven't yet been trained as to how to teach online. I have zero clue what that's supposed to mean but suspect that it's more applicable to elementary school age kids because there's some likelihood that first graders at all schools in town will be learning very similar things. Even in middle school, there's a state curriculum for core subjects.
I have my annual appointment with the sleep disorders clinic tomorrow morning. Since Scott will be able to drive both ways and since I really need some new c-pap headgear, I intend to go. I'll cancel the appointment I have on Friday because rescheduling that will be easy and because my prescriptions there are already up-to-date. Also, while Scott could get me there, he'd have to leave for work before the Friday appointment ended.
I'm trying to decide whether there's a better way to deal with getting home after tomorrow's appointment than calling Scott when I'm done and waiting at the main entrance to the building. I'm up to walking a ways; there just aren't a lot of places where it would make sense for Scott to wait for me that aren't home. It's not warm enough for it to make sense for him to walk around Island Park or some such.
I think I will try to start taking walks now that my knee is doing better. The neighborhood we're in doesn't get a lot of foot traffic, so I'm unlikely to run into anyone. I could use the exercise, and the temperatures outside are currently in a good range for me (40s and 50s F. Any warmer and I overheat).
I think it will take me a while to build up to long walks again, especially since I'll want to be cautious about exhausting myself. Usually, I just figure that I'll stay near a bus route and take that home if I'm done in. I still can do that, but I'd rather not take the bus unnecessarily.
Scott and I watched two Netflix DVDs yesterday. Usually, they sit for weeks, even months (Cordelia's much faster in terms of watching and sending things back). My list of TV/DVD logging is long enough that I've forgotten what some movies are, so hopefully, I'll manage some posts in that direction this week.
