Irene's Weblog

I still miss Firefly. It’s a shame FOX is such a bunch of assholes and screwed up a great show.  Luckily, it’s on DVD and it’s cheap.  Go buy it.

So, Nick Newcomen spends 30 days driving across the USA and he uses his GPS to scroll a message that can only be seen on Google Earth. This is his message.

Dude has some serious free time on his hands.

So, today was the first day back to work.  It should come as no surprise to anyone who works for any big company/school/corporation, that no one knows where my job is going to be yet.  I’ve been told not to worry, I have a job, they just don’t know where yet.

Given the current numbers, there isn’t a need for me at the junior high, but everyone thinks those numbers are going to go up.  I’ve also been told that two paraeducators from the TCAP program aren’t coming back this year.  Since TCAP is housed at the junior high, it’s likely that they will need help.  There is also no paraeducator at the Freshman Academy, which is also attached to the junior high.  I am 99% sure they’re going to need some help, especially if one particular behavioral problem returns to the district.

It just sucks really hard that I am going to go to work on Monday and have no clue what I’m supposed to do after morning duty.  I suppose I could be pissed at the elementary schools for not properly identifying students as they should, but, from what I’m told, the test scores bear out the fact that the junior high numbers will rise.  I guess I’ll have to wait until Monday to find out.  It’s going to be a long four days until then.

About a month ago, I had made a comment on slashdot about and old P4 that I have.  It’s just sitting collecting dust as I don’t have the cash to buy any memory for it.  I don’t want to toss the computer, because it shouldn’t be in a landfill.  It should be recycled, but there’s really nowhere around here that could do that.  A generous guy, who just happens to be from New York, sent me several sticks of RAM so I could get the computer up and running.  I now have a computer that I can muck about with as I learn Linux and don’t have to worry about screwing up my other computer when I really need it.

So, I’ve created a new category on my blog called Linux to document my adventures in finally learning Linux.  This is a picture of the memory this nice gentleman sent me and it’s my first step to a whole new world.