Dang. I don't know whether to hope they are all one after the other so you can get them out of the way or spaced out to give you a break in between.

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Monday and Tuesday are all day trainings starting at 6am. Not sure how I'm supposed to retain anything. Friday is another training but "only" from 6-9am. ...I also have now three recurring 8am meetings (tues/weds/fri) and a 9am one (Monday's). Boo, new job. Boo.

I have multiple streaming options but they are all blacked out because....I don't know why, it makes no sense to me.

Playoffs mean they fuck consumers even harder with the blackout restrictions they place on streaming options, in my experience with the NHL. I'm guessing the NBA site probably has some sort of gametracker that will give you radio options to stream online.

I'm curious what you call that one, Burrell

It isn't ringing a bell, but my brain is fried. I thought I was going in to meet with maybe 3 students today. Almost 10 came to office hours and I was there a good hour and a half past when I'd planned. I can't tell if that is good because it means they like me, or if it means I'm a terrible teacher because I can't get my ideas across during class. Hrm.

And my poor boy came home from school sick but we are hoping he'll feel good enough to go for at least part of the day since they are taking the big 5th grade culmination photo tomorrow.

Monday and Tuesday are all day trainings starting at 6am. Not sure how I'm supposed to retain anything. Friday is another training but "only" from 6-9am.

That's just rude.

{{Burrell}} We'll compare notes later. Hope the kiddo gets in the picture.

Ugh, meara, that's some aggressive scheduling.

I could have listened to the game but that required updating my stupid flash and that process finished up pretty much as the final buzzer sounded. Sigh. Ah, well, live and learn.

I'm just saying, if I can convince someone to go with me to see it before we use those tickets, I'm definitely going for it.

Well, if you want to come out to Vallejo Saturday @ 5, let me know.

So the New Workflow will be in place after this weekend's software update. The training for the New Workflow has just been scheduled, for Tuesday afternoon. That means I'll be working in it all day Monday and half Tuesday and will have already figured it out before I get trained. Besides, they already showed us what the new screens would look like in last Wednesday's meeting. But this is better than their old method of rolling new software: mention the change the morning it goes live and let us flail around and figure it out ourselves.

Hil, do you want to see it opening night and/or a different date? I'm probably going to get tickets soon-ish, so let me know. (By "opening night," I mean Friday, probably a 9-ish show, given how long it takes Tim to leave work.)

(Thursday. After the all-day Captain America marathon at the theatre. Yeah. LOOK AT MY LIFE, LOOK AT MY CHOICES.)

After the all-day Captain America marathon at the theatre.

I thought about doing that, because I would have liked to see TFA, Avengers, and Winter Soldier on the big screen one more time, but then my practical side reminded me I didn't really want to sit my ass in a movie theater all day.