Free from classes!  It feels so good!

Today, Barbara took a day off from school; still, I didn’t see her all day.  She used her “free day” to record six hours of recorded material that she can use in her classroom.  She also graded several papers.  I meanwhile looked over SAT test day requirements for Jeffrey’s test tomorrow and completed all the hoops to become a substitute teacher.  Yeah, now I can sub starting Monday!  After lunch, I played Minecraft until it was time to go set up all the band equipment at church.  Bery and I met at 3PM and meticulously set up everything from sound to drums to amps, with special attention to making sure wires were laid-out nice and flat and parallel (to avoid being kinked by people walking on them!).  By 6PM, we had everything done except for the wiring of my three amps (bass, electric and acoustic).  I went home, ate dinner, picked up Jeffrey, then back we went.  I got the three amps wired-up in half an hour… and then we had rehearsal.  I was so tired by the end of the evening!  My knees hurt from crawling around on the new carpet for three hours.

My day started by setting up breakfast for an All-Middle School teacher’s meeting.  Noah’s Bagels was very efficient; I was out of there in five minutes.  Setup didn’t take much longer.  Today, the teachers met in the old retirement center because my church didn’t have adequate wireless coverage, though they really liked the facilities.  The retirement center facilities were not great, and as it turned out, their wireless was no better than my church’s.  I think the Middle Schools are going to have a hard time finding a venue that can support 70 devices.

With that done, I went to the district office to turn in my paperwork, and then shop for tonight’s pot luck.  Yeah, I’ll be a substitute by Tuesday of next week!

Most of the afternoon was spent cooking.  Fortunately, my kids were home today (Teacher in-service day), so my son helped cook.  It would have been a much, much longer process if he had not.  In the evening, I went to class with “Hare Krishna” enchiladas, and the whole class ate very well while watching a series of student presentations.  It seems that everyone in this class is an excellent cook!

In the late evening, the kids and I watched Jurassic Park, complete with 1998 commercials that I had recorded – so many now dead companies who were advertising, and look at the size of those cell phones!  Film cameras were still being promoted as well.  Things have really changed in 14 years!