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 Posted: Fri May 16, 2025 9:42 pm
Aye YouTube ads were awful with what was allowed. I'm sad to say such words but with matters of my past I'm amazed there are nice teachers. Not to say I had none at all ever, but my number of nice teachers got outweighed by the teachers that made Umbridge look like a kind hearted professor in Hogwarts. The only decent case for my school was they never canceled Orchestra & Band even though they thought about it which stank but thankfully parents, teachers & students got to vote and more of us said to keep the classes.
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Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 11:16 am
There ARE nice teachers out there! Most of my elementary, middle, and high school teachers were really nice, treated everyone fairly, and put in extra effort to make sure anyone that needed extra one-on-one time in the class got it while the advanced kids did their own thing. (My second grade teacher notwithstanding; the teacher's aide was great, but the teacher herself was related to one of the other students in my class and gave him preferential treatment while holding advanced students back from their true potential because she didn't want anyone outshining him. I was one of the advanced kids that got shafted because I was leagues beyond the kid she was related to in most subjects, but especially in reading; I was already reading at a high school level, but she kept refusing to extend the AR levels I could get at the library. I would get so bored because the books I was allowed to get weren't challenging enough/I'd read most of the ones I was actually interested in already. I always wished I had gotten the other second grade teacher even though all the other kids moaned about how mean and strict she was.)
Though, I think there's a lot of correlation between teacher quality at a school and how the school district treats the schools and their staffs. My elementary school was tiny, but the district board left them pretty much to their own devices since they consistently had good scores on all the state-mandated tests. I think my middle school was a mixed bag staff-wise; all the teachers I had were great, but I was in a class with just advanced students. Meanwhile, my friends in other classes with "average" students would complain about their teachers. I remember getting on fairly well with all of the principals, though, except the one in charge of buses; I threw a fit when my bus got overcrowded and kids were having to stand in the aisles due to lack of seats and Words were had between him and my mother. (They were not nice words.) Even then, it wasn't like he ever had it out for me or anything, we were just ambivalent to one another where I was on good terms with the other principals. My first high school was rather a different story. I still did well there, and got on with my teachers well enough, but the school was underfunded, the staff overworked, the district board always breathing down their necks over low standardized test scores and high drop out rates, and it definitely showed. Like, I literally had a teacher knock my final grade down a letter that NEVER showed me any evidence for why, even though I went in on my own time to ask. To this day I'm convinced it was because he just didn't like me. We also didn't have enough textbooks for every kid to get one in most classes, so we weren't allowed to take them home at all.
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 11:41 am
I just want to say I am convinced most people have exactly zero clue what the difference between knitting and crochet is.
I search "crochet" on tenor and get a bunch of weird results with maybe a whole page of actually relevant images sprinkled throughout the ~five pages of scrolling I've bothered to look through.
I search "knitting" and get a bunch of images that are very obviously crochet. Like, hook present and everything.
Incredibly irritating.
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2025 1:58 pm
I've had nice teachers too in junior high and high school but sadly in a poorly school system of there was too much corrupted mean staff members (least in my time I couldn't say how it is now obviously.) I've forgotten most of the good ones we've had. But I also hadn't fully forgotten those few too, a math teacher who uplifted all kids named LeBreton, the librarians whom allowed me to have the library as an escapism from the cruel teachers I had, a decent English teacher named Byes who was happy for kids that could read above their grade levels & even would help suggest books to us all, & finally the orchestra/band teacher named Lyons that was so beloved and kind as a person she was offered a job to teach in South Korea that she's teaching there now still as far as I know. Honest those few teachers are the kind that make me wish I still stayed in school back then sometimes, but honestly with my father's health being poorly back then I possibly would have eventually dropped out to care for him depending how bad he got while I was attending.
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 9:49 pm
Add frustrated crying and this was basically my day today and half of yesterday.
My beau surprised with a new motherboard, one I had asked for some months ago when I first learned support for Windows 10 would be ending this year so I'd have the necessary hardware to upgrade. (My old motherboard was missing some arbitrary chip Microsoft requires for the upgrade to 11.) Which, yay for that, of course, but getting everything running exactly right has been a trial.
First, my new motherboard doesn't have two slots for powering my processor, and my wires for it are just generically labelled CPU, so I had to just plug one in and hope I got lucky with the coin toss or that it wouldn't matter which I used. It did matter, and I did not get lucky with the coin toss, so we had to kill power from the PSU since my power button did nothing.
Once we had THAT fixed, my PC would power on and off properly, but still wasn't starting, so back to the drawing board! My beau forgot to read the diagrams properly, so we didn't have my RAM in the right slots. emotion_facepalm
Switched the sticks over to the correct slots, tried again. Computer actually boots and things display on my monitor, yay! Buuut... It's booting straight to BIOS, as if I don't have an OS on my hard drive. Sigh...
It took several minutes of searching to figure it out; because my system has been around the block a while, we had to enable legacy mode booting.
FINALLY get a full startup, I can log on and everything, woo! But then my system is insisting my copy of Windows isn't legitimate. Because, for whatever reason, each Windows key gets tied to your hardware. So when you upgrade your motherboard in a custom machine, you have to re-bind your key to the new hardware. Okay, fine, whatever, should be easy, right? Hah, I wish. I had to try for something like ten minutes to update the hardware tied to my copy Windows because it kept claiming the Microsoft servers were "unavailable." (Personally, I'm calling horseshit, this feels like a predatory tactic to get people to panic buy a new activation key.)
Once that finally works, I should be good to go to boot in the necessary mode, yes? Haha, no. We end up getting frustrated trying to figure it out, think it might be some kind of thing where we have to wait for all the changes to properly register or something, and decide to leave it for the night and I'll just keep using it in legacy mode.
Try switching again this morning, still no dice. Okay, fine. I take to the internet to find answers; luckily, my search query crafting is met with better results than what my beau got yesterday. The problem? Because I've just been upgrading my system a piece or two at a time for YEARS, I've not had to do a clean install of Windows in... well, a while. And because of that, the drives I've had my OS on have all been formatted using the MBR (master boot record) architecture. Which is, as I'm sure you can guess, now considered a legacy format.
So, I have to switch my drive to the GPT (GUID partition table) architecture. Good news, the results I browsed said I should be able to do that without having to wipe the drive and completely reformat it. (Which is great, because I don't have a bootable external copy of Windows just laying around anywhere.) Bad news, I'm paranoid and terrified of the whole thing going tits up and having no way to undo the damage. Thankfully, we have an old (OLD; thing has been with us over ten years) terabyte external drive, so I decide to just copy the whole drive to the internal and backup some other files while I'm at it and perform some housekeeping on the, frankly, ancient files still kicking around the external. (Seriously, there were entire folders of old assignments from when my beau was in uni.)
Did I mention our external is ooooold? Because this thing might as well be a great grandfather as far as technology is concerned. That housekeeping and file transferring I was doing? It took ALL. DAY. Well upwards of six hours. (You know how the last one percent of anything is always the longest five seconds in the world? I think my computer may have been trying to set a record or something. I had five seconds remaining on the transfer for AN HOUR AND A HALF.)
But finally, an entire knitted dishcloth and a good bit of reading later, it finishes. Time to do that thing I ACTUALLY set out to do in the first place. Except, the actual Microsoft page about the tool I need to use is written in frustratingly obtuse language. I end up having to craft ANOTHER search just to figure out how to work the stupid thing I need to convert my disk. But I do get some results with very straightforward instructions about the commands I need to use. (Not sure why Microsoft couldn't be arsed to do the same.)
Unfortunately, even though I used the right command, an error was returned. I was honestly driven to tears at this point, I was so fried I couldn't understand what the error was, nor could I find answers when I tried to search for it. I ended up walking away for a couple minutes because I Just Could Not anymore. When I returned, the error seemed to make a little more sense, and I decide on a last ditch effort; run CommandPrompt as administrator. And even though this shouldn't matter, since my account is the only one on my PC and is the admin account by default, this turns out to be the solution I needed.
SUCCESS! FINALLY! I convert my drive, restart my computer, open my system settings, switch over to the mode I've been trying to use for two days, hold my breath as the system restarts one more time... And release a literal cry of joy when everything goes off without a hitch for the first time in over 24 hours. I cannot overstate just how glorious it was to successfully come to the end of this endeavor.
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2025 5:34 pm
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Posted: Wed May 21, 2025 12:16 pm
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 4:44 pm
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2025 9:20 pm
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2025 5:16 pm
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 5:28 pm
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2025 5:17 pm
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2025 4:18 am
This opossum on a roomba brings me great joy.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2025 5:15 pm
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Posted: Thu May 29, 2025 5:02 am
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