And back again!

Well my shoulder hurt for a bit… but getting back to “normal” is getting closer.
(psst… things didn’t change much, I’m a geek… I hid in the basement regardless)

Joking aside it will be nice to see friends again… miss all 3 (local) of them. 🙂

Work is going to ram up in load soon; all those systems that went out for at-home-learning will be coming back to us so we can prep them to go back to the schools. This is going to be a large endeavor… need to get the numbers right for each school (will change 2-3 times before September), image them, and get them to the schools. Our main building is having some renovations done… going to be a shit show.

We just got a new fur-ball in the house…
She likes me. 🙂

Her nightly thing now is to curl up in-between me and my keyboard, then sleep next to Jen’s head. That last one will get old fast, but she is not one have a need to “BE ON YOU”, more next to, or in the same room.

Kids are done with school for this year… and good riddance! The younglings just can’t do this, not faulting the teachers, the ones that ours kids had did an amazing job. The boy has become a hermit, and lacks any contact with friends (nobody around the neighbourhood we know from his class), I was the same way…

Ian ouT

Hello?
Hello?!

Makes sense… 🙁

So, still wanting to do this on a regular basis, more as a personal endeavor, to remember things… but life/kids/work/games/motorcycles/etc/etc/etc and… I suck.

Jeez, Oct 2019…
Guess this was about 5 months before the world changed and everyone stopped…
Everything…
“Stay home, stay safe.” was the plan for all to stop the spread of COVID. 

Oddly enough this made work really busy, we need to get things ready for “At-Home-Learning”, this was a big shift for everyone. O365 and products became a necessity for teachers and students. First month was a scramble to get all the in-school network drives files on TEAMS or OneDrive so teachers have access to their files. This lead to other issues with teachers not having devices at home… or internet…
Some lived in areas that just couldn’t get it, but everyone was doing their best to do what they could to be affective to teach.
Students were also having issues. We need to set things up for them to take home devices so they could be taught, this was a big undertaking and the first time was a bit of a Cluster F@&k. We did it… we always do.

I did mention that Jen is a vice-principal… she is, during a pandemic… trial by fire.
She crushed it, and still is.

Where was I… right.
By the second wave we had laptops in all the teachers hands to make things easier for them, but we just finished getting the student laptops back in the schools from the first wave, and now we needed to put that back out again… lots a work.

Third wave, we had plans in place, and the first spike was big, but the team handled things great. After that it was a steady flow… now we are at the end of the year.

We are almost through it.

What else…
Drive-by birthdays, finished the backyard, outdoor Thanksgiving, daycare is expensive (saved money), I like cooking with fire, teaching your kids isn’t easy, bought a new keyboard, houses all around us, working from home is a good/bad in ways, lost one of the cats, getting a kitten tomorrow, Jamie has changed bikes/cars twice, and COVID SUCKS…

Yup.
Ian ouT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

I was dropping of Alex sometime last week, and I realized all this hot/cold weather is really messing up the roads. I mean really bad… the flattest roads I’ve been on lately are the country roads, and they aren’t really paved, just sprayed with tar and fine gravel spread on top. Let’s not talk about the potholes, I’ve seen a few that might have a small car in them… I wish I was joking, and now we are going to have rain for the next few days to hide the potholes, I better not bend a rim. 🤨

On the plus side, as long as we don’t see snow again, there is a strong chance the roads are going to be cleaned of the mountains of salt they threw down, making the way for BIKE season to start. 😁 I really need to rack up some KM this summer, between the kids, and the short distance to work, I’ve been lacking the last few years…

Kids had a good time with mom on Family Day, they did stuff… 😋

-Ian out-