that was the day that was
The bad: Power failure in the classroom building, due to high winds associated with this major rainstorm.
The good: The emergency lighting came on after just a couple of minutes of pitch-blackness and cell phone "lights" in our windowless basement classroom.
The bad: The regular power, including for the computers, did not come back for about half an hour.
The good: With the HVAC off, the room did not get uncomfortably hot!
The bad: The class I'm teaching is ... basically a software class.
The good: I had brought a non-computer activity with me, so we looked at different examples of real maps for half an hour at the beginning, instead of at the end.
The bad: My "office" was pinched away for the afternoon by the departmental search process.
The good: I wanted to leave early anyway, to allow more time for bad-weather driving.
The bad: Bad-weather driving is really, really tiring. I got up at 5 a.m., the drive is 1.5 hours each way, and I'm so tired my face hurts.
The good: I am home, safe, reasonably warm, have lazed around for a couple hours and had dinner, and will soon be able to tuck myself into bed.
I think I'll call it about evens, eh?
The good: The emergency lighting came on after just a couple of minutes of pitch-blackness and cell phone "lights" in our windowless basement classroom.
The bad: The regular power, including for the computers, did not come back for about half an hour.
The good: With the HVAC off, the room did not get uncomfortably hot!
The bad: The class I'm teaching is ... basically a software class.
The good: I had brought a non-computer activity with me, so we looked at different examples of real maps for half an hour at the beginning, instead of at the end.
The bad: My "office" was pinched away for the afternoon by the departmental search process.
The good: I wanted to leave early anyway, to allow more time for bad-weather driving.
The bad: Bad-weather driving is really, really tiring. I got up at 5 a.m., the drive is 1.5 hours each way, and I'm so tired my face hurts.
The good: I am home, safe, reasonably warm, have lazed around for a couple hours and had dinner, and will soon be able to tuck myself into bed.
I think I'll call it about evens, eh?