Floyd is watching Jurassic World this evening – people and dinosaurs running around eating each other. I was just remembering a show I apparently watched way back as a kid called Land of the Lost. Talk about lost. I must have lost my mind to have watched this. Have a watch and see if you can get past the first 15 minutes.
Tutor of the Year nomination
Wow! Good news! I’ve been nominated by TD for 2020 Tutor of the Year for Canada! A student’s mom wrote a very positive report on me, and now I am in the running to win this year. This is most pleasing. It comes with a gift card of $xxx.xx and … who knows what else – likely a news release of some sort (in the tutoring world, that is). I’m grateful to TD for all their support, and I’m grateful to have such great students. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – my students make me look good!
work
I recently started a new position at a company that makes cabinets as a drafting technologist. For the past two weeks, I’ve been getting to know the software they use and trying to create an AWMAC compliant room-by-room materials list for a house. I think they are a good group of people who seriously work hard. The position, as with most positions out there, comes with a three month probationary period. I hope I make the cut. I’ll keep you posted.
In the mean time, there’s still TD. They also keep me busy. I’m not sure if I can take on any more clients with them as time is now limited.
an important difference (or, let me in, just don’t follow me)
I submitted this to the Washington Post.
I recently tried to view one of your pages (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/suffering-from-bad-knees-some-look-for-alternatives-to-surgery/2019/11/15/d286d862-dfd7-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab) but was transferred to another page requesting to disable my web browser’s ad-block (https://www.washingtonpost.com/steps-for-disabling-firefoxs-native-adblocker/2018/05/21/fb95bf4e-5d37-11e8-b2b8-08a538d9dbd6_story.html). I have apps on my browser to disable tracking, not ads. I do not mind ads. I believe that a free internet requires ads. However, I do not wish to be tracked. I am happy to view your ads without being tracked. I do not know how to separate the two. Firefox, Ghostery, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, Privacy Badger, and others all seem to do both simultaneously. Can you offer a method of unblocking ads without disabling tracking blocks? I would welcome this.
I wonder if anyone is listening.
how to get a five star rating (or, not)
Someone asked me why I gave five stars to a recent chat with a company. Were they really worth five stars? This is how I give out my stars.
One for responding within the time frame I required of them.
One for understanding the issue and not confusing it with another.
One for being knowledgeable.
One for finding a solution.
One for explaining, teaching, showing well in a meaningful, polite, non-robotic way.
If you’ve done all this, then you get five stars out of me. If not, then not.
tiny ideas
I’ve written before about the tiny home idea previously – how it might work, what impacts it would have on a town or city, how if might help various people, etc. Something occurred to me while going to a student’s house in a mobile home park.
on the one hand … (or, battle of the building methods)
On the one hand, this guy’s ideas…
…seem like a great replacement for traditional stud construction for many applications.
let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Snow once again, the third this winter.
I don’t mind. I happen to enjoy snow.
ain’t got no good grammar
Okay, I get a little excited when people use bad grammar – or diction, vocabulary, idioms, etc. I saw this article header on my Firefox web browser. Okay, I get a little excited when someone gets it right!
43 Embarrassing Grammar Mistakes Even Smart People Make
Oh yah. That’s what it’s all about, people.
snow
It started snowing again today. Yay!
I actually don’t mind snow. I don’t mind walking in it, driving through it, or shovelling it. I certainly enjoy looking at it. People sometimes say, “When it’s winter, I complain about the cold. But, in summer, I look forward to winter.” I don’t think I do. I actually enjoy winter. No noisy hot-rods driving up and down the roads, coffee tastes better for some reason, and I look forward to meals much more than in hot weather. On the down side, I don’t get to work on any projects, and daylight disappears pretty quickly.