Dec. 17, 21: Routine, Final Grades, Oculus, Christmas Dinner, and Games

Up at just about five this morning, which is good that that has been fairly regular lately. Downside is, I also seem to be getting to bed later as well, so I ended up about an hour and a half short again. I’ve been going full blast all week and today (though a little lighter) still had plenty left that needed doing.

I got all my grading done last night, but I still needed to enter them into my grade book and then report them officially in the system, so woke up with that on my mind and other than the usual routine, taking care of that was basically the morning.

I did have one student that did surprisingly poorly on the final and wrote me explaining that she’d just been diagnosed with Turret’s and fighting the developing ticks is distracting and tiring. I struggled with it for a while (especially since she got a B+ as a final grade anyway), but considering she was always on time and participated in class and self-advocated, for two percent, meh, I gave her the A-.

I had another student message me wanting an extension. It took a few times back and forth, but it turns out he’s not my student (in a different section) but did all the homework for my class. I sent his scores to his professor, but he responded by asking if I had a grade calculated for him (which I don’t since he isn’t my student). I think it’s basically resolved now, though…I don’t have anything to say about his final exam and I sent all the scores I have.

The crypto markets are still looking pretty ugly! HIVE did gain back a few percent, but still below the $1.6 ceiling. Although I’m, of course, not as happy as I was when we were closer to $3, but even so I’m well above the highest prices I bought at. I was glad to find MATIC in the green, especially relative to ETH! At least temporarily gained back some of my losses (only three quarters of an ETH left to go 😛🤬).

I did decide to leave my DEC in the pool for now. I’m not getting as high an APR as I would be in the SPS pool, but the double points for the airdrop helps, at least for now. I had some more SPS that came in from my BRO holdings, so I went into that pool a little harder than before. Not exactly sure it’s the best way to invest that capital, but getting tokens to work for me is a desirable scenario and it’s helping solairitas grow a little on the side.

I guess one notable thing was that I actually got out for a little walk today, been a while! I didn’t go for a proper walk really, just did the errands here locally: hit the post office, paid the water bill, went to the bank, and then down to the store to get some stuff for my foot 🦶. Guess I got a fungus or something, but it’s been really hurting me, and burning and itching…been putting cream on it, but thought I should probably spray my shoes and slippers as well. Not cool. 🤕 Still, I did walk downtown and I added an extra block or two, just to make it a bit longer. (Better than not) 💪

Started to drag somewhat, but I did fight through. I was planning on laying down and set the alarm just in case I fell asleep, but I ended up catching some virtual fish instead. While it is a fun game, it does get repetitive real fast and I switched over to Puzzling Places. There was a new free puzzle for the holidays and I completed the 25, 50, and 100 piece versions. It’s another one that isn’t very big, so it starts to get crazy hard when you cut it into super tiny pieces.

Spent a bit of time in the afternoon cleaning up around the house (and cleaning myself) getting ready for Christmas dinner this evening. Wenche is heading to Norway tomorrow, so we did our thing today. Got her presents wrapped up and ready and that was pretty much it.

When she got home, she whipped together a yummy chicken dinner and a new dessert that was very good, but a little bitter. Then we opened our gifts. 🎁 I got her some slippers, some fancy chocolates, and a nice sweater for work and we got Mom a gift certificate to a salon to get her nails or whatever she wants done. Mom gave Wenche some saxophone earrings and each of us $100! Nice! 👍 Thinking some new VR game downloads are coming in the near future. 😁 I got a nice work sweater from Mom as well 😂 and a new canvas/leather satchel for my books and teaching stuff.

Not a bad haul! Oh, and some Ballwash and a ball washing pad for the shower. 🤣

After Mom headed home, for once, I was well above my step goal and didn’t have to do any laps or anything! Basically just got ready for bed and watched about half an episode of Inside Job before I was out.

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Sixty-eight is forty-nine, for what reason is known only to the Gods of Shitdom.

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Did a couple more missions on Rising Star today. Nothing major to report, just plodding through levels.

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Well, not even sure how far behind on daily quests I am now…at least three, for sure. 😢 I suppose I could have played, it’s not that I didn’t have any time, but I just didn’t want to. Maybe I can call it a mini break.

Went over to the “Town Hall” meeting over on Discord. I think they should call it something else because that implies community involvement…was a HR recruiting webinar for a while and then mostly them just stroking eachother’s dicks again. I asked and was very disappointed to learn that going forward the only way to buy packs is with credits. 🤬😡🤬😡🤬 They want, what, $39 million on top of the millions they’ve already made?! I suppose I can’t blame them, but that does mean that vouchers are more or less completely useless to me other than to dump them out for whatever I can get for them (and seems like I’m not the only one). Also means that the sale and airdrops are likely to continue at the snail’s pace they are currently.

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