PB&J and Tuesday nights go hand in hand

Cold this morning but I think it is going to warm up today. It will be short lived. The rest of the week is supposed to be cold. The good news is we really don't have a chance at any significant snow in the near future.

Class went well last night. I had them do a team project that incorporated Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They had to do a lot of work and finish the night with a presentation. I was anticipating it to take a few hours total but it ended up taking almost the whole four hours and the second group didn't get to do their presentation. They will have to do it next week.

Even thought it was a bunch of work, I really didn't hear any grumbling about it. I think they enjoyed the project but it was a killer for me. I just had to sit there for four hours and wait. It was very dull. The next two classes are going to be the same because they have test prep next week and the final test the week after that.

Jess had a basketball game last night and they won. I thin they won pretty big too. Dawn said Jess played well. She is more confident this year and really getting to the basket. I think she had 12 points. It will be good to see her play on Friday.

She has the best vertical jump on the team so she does the jump ball. So far this season she is yet to loose the jump toss. We will see what happens when she has to jump against a girl that is 6'2. Last year she had to jump against one of those girls and she wanted to get up early so she jumped as soon as the ball was tossed. The other girl jumped with her and they both wiffed!

Drew has early morning practices this week so we go over at 5:10 am. Molly loves the little walk to the school so she is just excited as she can be when Drew is up and about in the morning.

I have a meeting today and not much on the agenda for the rest of the week. I am a bit worn out today for the last two nights of teaching.

I got my confirmation card for teaching next semester. I teach three classes. For a 6 week period from the end of February to the start of April I will be teaching 17 hours a week. I guess we will see how I hold up.

Off to start.

I think I might prefer the virtual world

Yesterday I had to go to Rockwell Collins for a virtual reality demonstration. They are donating a virtual reality projector, computer and screen to the school and I went with a small group of people to check out the technology in their environment. It was pretty cool to see the virtual reality, 3D environment. We had to wear some high tech 3D glasses but it really seemed like we were really in the virtual room.

We had to leave at 6am yesterday morning, thus the blog did not get posted. It was an early start to the day since I also had to teach class last night and didn't get home until around 9:45. Anyway, it was pretty cool and it will be interesting to see if our staff gets jazzed enough about it to actually develop curriculum to integrate it.

Drew had a basketball game last night. They lost 50 something to 14. UGLY! Drew did score one point.

Jess has her first basketball game tonight. I am not sure where it is but it isn't in Perry. I teach so I pay less attention to where she plays when I have no chance of attending.

The weekend went quickly. The huskers won, which was good. Jess had a basketball round robin scrimmage all day Saturday. The kids and Dawn wen to the school play and that was about it.

We did go to Ankeny Sunday to turn in Jessica's volleyball contract but that was relatively uneventful. I did buy a new kitchen trash can..Whoo Hoo!

I can't believe we are a little over a week away from Thanksgiving. I need to call mom this weekend and decide what we are going to do. Jess is having oral surgery over the break so I am not sure I am going to make it to the traditional Thanksgiving decoration day at the restaurant. I really haven't even thought much about it and it is just a week away.

Christmas is fast approaching as well. It won't be long until the shopping season will be full swing. I also have to start thinking of songs for the Christmas CD.

Ok, off to start.