One of the brilliant moments of my life is always the one where I realise “… I don’t really have access to Internet Explorer at night.” Somehow, IE on my HP laptop has gotten screwed up. I could probably solve this by installing IE8, but frankly, I think I need IE7 as a design testbed, so I’d really rather not lose it.
However. It has a fun glitch in it where I can’t open any files from the internet, because it wants to work in Offline mode, and I can’t open files from a thumb drive, possibly for the same glitchy reason. Add that to the stack of reasons that I’m having some trouble keeping up with assignments right now – I managed to actually break IE. So. Assignment 2 ain’t gonna be done today. Tomorrow I should – giant emphasis on “should,” because if I say “will be” something horrible will happen – be able to check this design and get it done.
But I’m optimistic that I’m about to turn around the assignments thing this week; I feel like the classes I’m teaching are on an even keel now, and I’ve come to grips with my Robotics class, so that’s not going to be a problem any longer, I think, though it’s definitely souring my general mood to have a class that is Not So Fun After All. How could Lego robots not be all that fun?
Beyond that, I clearly need to spend more time with today’s lecture. For some reason I missed something about $myPay and the other variables so I wasn’t getting the right result. I heard the relevant conversation, I just missed how it was applied, so I’m going to rewatch the relevant segment of the lecture and see if it makes more sense.
I need to get back in practise at doing homework. After five weeks off, it’s hard to say “You need this much time to do homework.” So right now, I’m going to ballpark my actual effective time on homework here as 2 hours, plus class time, and add this to Lumina so I can try to directly track my time in the future.
