Kate and SteelyKid have colds (well, they’re sharing the same cold), so SteelyKid is waking up a lot during the night. Since Kate needs rest as well, she put earplugs in last night (she’s a much lighter sleeper than I am), and I took baby-soothing duty. So I was up half the night.<\/p>\n
I come in for my 9:15 class, turn on the projector so I can project my slides, and the projector is dead. A bunch of fiddling with it reveals that it’s not just a blown bulb (which happened Monday morning), but a broken projector. So, no lecture slides.<\/p>\n
“All right,” I say, “I’ll just do a chalk-talk using my lecture slides as a basis.” So I fire up PowerPoint… which hangs. And takes the whole machine down with it, requiring a hard power-off.<\/p>\n
So, I ended up doing an improvised chalk-talk lecture based on last year’s PowerPoints, which are still available on the Blackboard page for the old course. That went about as well as you might expect from that description.<\/p>\n
As a bonus, today’s scheduled lecture was the one class period we have to spend on vectors, which means 1) it’s absolutely critical for every subsequent lecture, and 2) it requires a lot of drawings of arrows in three dimensions. Which I suck at, which is one of the reasons I use PowerPoint in the first place– so the figures will actually look like they’re supposed to, and not like the clumsy scrawl of a drunken chimpanzee.<\/p>\n
I had been planning to try to play a little hoops today, as my ankle is feeling much better, and I got my fancy heavy-duty brace in the mail yesterday. The way this morning has gone, though, I’m a little afraid that I’ll get run over by a truck on the way to the gym, or a tree will fall on me, or something.<\/p>\n
I think I may just go home, go back to bed, and play Angry Birds with the covers pulled up over my head. There’s no way that can end badly, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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