9/12: What I Accomplished Today

1. Prepped a class, graded three classes, performed many miscellaneous office tasks, taught a class. Very, very smug about the day's productivity.

2. A few years ago, the college where I teach instituted a program whereby, if you attend a training session, you could check out a Tablet PC to use for your online classes or other teaching responsibilities. I didn't have a laptop at the time, so I did this and checked out a computer. I have now had this computer over a year, and Distance Education has asked for it back several times so they can do maintenance and stuff on it. I know the program now has a waiting list, and I have had the thing over a year, so with the summer teaching money, I bought two Tablet PC's, one for me and one for Co-Vivant (because when she has low blood sugar or electric legs or other various mild physical disruptions, certain Pogo games are the quickest, most reliable way for her to get her focus back, but there have been several times when she needed the computer for focus while I actually needed it for work, so I decided we needed to have two).

They came today! Hers is in XP, and mine is in Vista. (This is the first PC I, personally, have ever owned; most of my other computers are Macs. I have a PC at work, and I've done tech support on both platforms, but this is the first thing I've seen a PC do enough better than a Mac to warrant buying it. This means, of course, that tomorrow Jobs will demo a much better machine for a quarter of the cost.) Set hers up, then mine, then pulled the files off the school's so we can return it tomorrow.

3. Television. No Pogo badges; I was setting up Tablet PCs.

4. Level 33 Night Elf Hunter. Highperch. Shady Rest. Theramore runaround. Back to Thalsamaar for the Thousand Needles run to the racetrack to pick up quests, then down to pick up the Gadgetzan flight path. As I was running toward Gadgetzan, just running, not doing anything, I dinged 34. (All I can think is that I got the points for finding Gadgetzan and those 200 or so points put me over the edge.) Trained, did auction duty, went to Ratchet and turned in Krazek's parts, poised to fly back to Gadgetzan tomorrow and have a nice, relaxing day finishing the Raceway quests, which I enjoy. Should be enough to level this character.

5. Hijacked back Co-Vivant's 50th birthday party. (I actually did this while I was back on #1, but I just remembered and don't feel like renumbering things.)

6. BigFishGame tonight looks like another searchy thing.