Mar. 2, 22: Routine, Teaching, TV, and Games

[I’m up to quarter past ten today before I can post because of the damn brofund bot. 😡 It’s so past the point of stupidity that it’s crossed over into malice, so much so that as soon as I type “damn,” predictive text says “brofund bot.” 🤬 I mean, it’s been like seven months or more. Today’s Thursday and so there’s errands to run and PYPT later and then Let’s Write Together in the evening…plus I really want to get some work done and there’s the ever-present call of the Oculus. Hope I haven’t over planned for myself (like I seem to most Thursdays) and just get overwhelmed and either take a nap or just play games.]

To be honest, today was pretty much entirely consumed with teaching and getting ready for teaching and winding down from teaching. Even so, going to do my best to maintain a solid word count as to maintain my self-worth standards. 😛

Speaking of teaching, several weeks ago I put in for classes for next semester. Now I get an email from the department chair saying that some edict from on high has decreed that there only be certain ratios of face-to-face versus online classes, so now I don’t even have the classes I thought I had and I’m facing the potential for no income for the summer or the fall (through no fault of my own). 🤬🤬 If there are any scraps left, again, I will have to put in another request on a first come, first served basis. Fingers crossed 🤞 I guess.

My sleep tonight was not great and waking up stressing about the fridge with my head pounding having to take the back off and put it back on in my robe didn’t help. I tried to relax when I laid down again and went back to sleep pretty quickly, but even with sleeping until six, I ended a solid two hours short.

No rest for the wicked, though, had stuff to do today. Not a lot to note about the morning routine. Was pretty usual; despite the rise in the crypto markets (or perhaps because of) I’m now losing even more against ETH over on Polygon. That whole shite had turned into a complete waste of time and energy. Even unwinding is going to cost me transaction fees in the least. I just keep trying to tell myself that eventually I’ll make it back from BRO drips…between paying back that investment and covering my loss, maybe somewhere between fifty and a hundred years from now.

Did all the normal stuff getting ready for work and headed in. Unfortunately, the drive in was not very smooth. 😡 They had the whole highway closed and people driving on the shoulder filling a damn pothole or something and causing a jam for miles. I did eventually get past it and was only about five minutes late (which is why I leave a twenty minute buffer for the drive).

In Algebra we looked at inequalities: linear, polynomial, and rational, and how to solve them and then did some examples. Got out a few minutes early, but pretty close to time and went out to the car for lunch.

I really don’t get why I can’t get any phone or WiFi signal anywhere on campus. 🤷😡 Or that some days it’s passable and other days it won’t load anything at all? I’m on 5G E, so I’m guessing I’m only getting the emergency functionality, but I can’t find a way to switch back to LTE, which seems to work fine elsewhere.

I drove around the campus and found a place to park where I could at least load PeakD and check in on Discord and then headed back in for Calculus.

We’ve covered all the basic rules of differentiation now, so we started looking some more at applications. We quickly reviewed all the rules, talked about the Mean Value Theorem (Rolle’s Theorem), looked at Newton’s Method for finding zeros of functions, and then worked through some optimization problems.

Even with covering all that, we got out about fifteen minutes to a half hour early or so, but I fielded some questions and talked with students for a bit after class.

The drive home was a lot smoother and I just about got changed into my lounging clothes when Wenche got home from work. She made us an omelette for dinner and we binged more Inbetweeners. It is a pretty good one, worth the watch and a few giggles. 😁

It was already getting close to time to start getting ready for bed when I remembered I hadn’t played my Splinterlands quest, so I tried for a little bit but just gave up after a couple battles. Laid down and was out in just a few.

I’m off now for Winter Break (really Spring Break, but whatever)! Got until next Monday to think about sitting at the computer and not actually doing it. 😜

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There we go! Now we got General crime and crises and all kinds of additional shittiness over and above that which is endemic to dShitty. A deal’s a deal, so today’s three words are: rip-off, fail, and tokenomicide (which is the killing of tokenomics).

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As best as I can recall, I only went in to Rising Star once today. Got a mission done and started another before I registered that my Ego started increasing again. Going to have to try and remember to go in and do a couple lessons to get that back down.

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Well, once again I got a fairly late start playing Splinterlands. I went in and reset the quest around the time it was due up, but I didn’t feel like playing then and it got late before I thought of it again.

I played a bit of my quest for the day, but just lost interest. I did go back in this morning and played a little more with the intention of trying to finish before I started working on my post, but didn’t get very far.

I had Dragon for my quest today, which shouldn’t have been too difficult, but you actually have to be persistent to get it done and I was not. Should be able to get caught up some time during the day today.

Otherwise, nothing too interesting. Staked my SPS drop and didn’t make any moves with vouchers. I did go into the Discord and ask about my inability to transfer SPS in game (tried a couple more times this morning) and it was totally my bad. Because of the rounding of the the displayed amount, I kept trying to send more than I had (which of course failed).

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