2017 – Day 19
Thursday, January 19, 2017 The district’s closed again today; the roads are pure ice here at the Transportation Department. And with temperatures predicted to rise, there may be a lot of standing water on the roadways later today. I completed Module 8: Designing Studies for Statistics and Probability and only have Module 12: Conditional Probability and Independence to complete before […]
2017 – Day 18
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 Well…this just about sums it all up… What a wild couple of days. A three-day weekend and now day two of no school, this time due to the ice storm we started getting late yesterday afternoon. This is only my second year in Moses Lake, but I’ve been told that […]
2017 – Day 17
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Humpf! Because of a dire weather report, the district decided to cancel school today. I’m all caught up on work and am now designing a relational database for pupil transportation management which means I need to bone up on MySQL! Day one with no toiletry bag (first world problem) as my […]
2017 – Day 16
Monday, January 16, 2017 Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and as a public school employee, I’m able to enjoy today off. I can’t recall ever hearing a member of my family disparage another person based solely on the color of their skin. In fact, I remember my mother telling me that her father […]
2017 – Day 15
Sunday, January 15, 2017 Another gorgeous morning looking out from our home here in Winthrop. It’s 11º outside – practically shorts weather. Today is a day of staying in and relaxing and studying. I’m working through Statistics & Probability and am having to re-study 4 modules. As part of my success plan (for failing the assessment […]
2017 – Day 14
Saturday, January 14, 2017 Today’s the first day of my three-day weekend. Our friend Mark is visiting and we’re sitting around the dining room table trying to decide what to do today. Tiago says the Lake Chelan Winterfest is going on so I think we’ll be making a drive down to Chelan for the afternoon. […]
2017 – Day 13
Friday, January 13, 2017 And here we go again. Grant County Airport is reporting -23º with windchill. Per district policy, our threshold for no school is -15º and below. We’ve decided to call a two-hour late start and we’ll reevaluate at 6:30 AM, but personally, I think we’ll probably call for another school closure. Mother […]
2017 – Day 12
Thursday, January 12, 2017 And school’s closed again today (third day this week) due to weather. The Grant County Airport is reporting a temperature of -23º with windchill and district policy states that school will be closed whenever there’s a sustained temperature of -15º or below. I don’t mind snow days; it allows me to […]
2017 – Day 11
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Hump day. The district’s closed today because of snow drifts. I was up at 3:00 AM and drove up-and-down Mae Valley, Dune Lakes and around town. I’ve never lived anyplace that gets the constant wind that Moses Lake gets and I encountered drifts 5′ high in some areas. The nice […]
2017 – Day 10
Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Neither one of my alarms went off this morning. Funny thing that right now I’m taking Probability and Statistics in college and one of the probabilities I’ve had to work out was the odds of two alarm clocks both not going off and it’s a very small number. Perhaps I should buy a […]