Tuesday was my Monday.
Rough day, Tuesday. It almost seemed like an additional Monday in play. However, Monday wasn't this bad. As you know by my whining, I am on-call this week. I was called nearly 5 times Monday night alone for network issues (nothing I personally can do for them) within 3 facilites. This all occured around 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m.
This was proceeded by another stressfull school board meeting. It appears, they wish to remove the parents input, that they have had in place for 4 plus years, called teacher request. The elementary school is growing, and it's become cumbersome to have half the student body doing request. Because realistically, you just cannot make everyone happy. I and another member, of 5, raised our concerns because the admin wanted to immediately do away with the tradition without first informing the public. Our school isn't really key on PR and this would not help the district itself. Plus the fact, I personally asked the Super to have this on our agenda in the beginning of the school year and again middle of the school year for the primary reason of not wanting to wait till the last minute, while 100 plus parents have already turned in their teacher request for next year. So, I and another member stopped the truck from running and probably pissed off Admin. We spoke more of this one topic then it took to discuss the full nights meeting.
I then wake up 6 a.m. Tuesday morning to find the internet is out. I of course do the routine. Unplug the modem, router, reboot the pc, ect. I went to the extent of /renew and /refresh the ipconfigure in my machine trying in vain to call that net service. I resorted to call Cox cable and reported the fact no internet service. After 3 calls into them, I was informed "yeah, I don't even see your modem online" Nice.
Running the kids to school, I called my boss lady informing her of my sitch. I hit the coffeehouse and plug in. At least I was able to acquire my all time favorite coffe drink, the Mocha Grande. Caught up on my email, and worked on some issues till about 11 a.m. and boom. I lost internet. I asked the guy up front if they could determine if they lost internet, other than me not able to get crap. "No man, that happens at times, it must be Cox" Nice.
Kel called shortly after that to inform me of the ultimate information regarding Beka. She has been dropping hints of her interest for the last 3 months now, which I have as far successfully ignored. Since, I didnt have net access anyway, I updated my bosslady, driving to the seminar and was indoctrinated with a new (new means to me) way of education. In my area homeschooling isn't really mainstream. But, it appears in my last 3 years, I have been introduced to many things outside of my realm of prior knowledge. So, I take it in stride and simple listen and ask questions. Initially I have had serious reservations when the discussion was brought up, for a number of reasons. However, from what I am currently seeing, getting flak and educating those not aware of it aside, it is looking interesting.
So I find myself up again tonight around 2 a.m. est after work does a server upgrade. I am not informed by my company (thats too much to aske for), rather by the vendor the upgrade is complete. Oh well.
It allowed me to return some replies in other blogs and update everyone that comes across this blog.
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