I took the Model Y to work today so Summer could drop my car off at Fast Glass. I wasn’t even sure whether they had my replacement there, but I figured it’s been since June 7th. Once I got to work, we hustled to get laid out in the cafeteria so we could hand out the high schoolers’ laptops. I don’t know what I expected, but only about a third of the students had forms turned in, and not all of them even came down to get a Chromebook. We only handed out 56 out of the expected 121 between juniors and seniors, so I felt a little smug about having my handbook approved by the school board.
Even with such a small group of students coming down, things still got hectic because parents couldn’t count on their fingers to figure out what year their students were expected to graduate. We could just ask for their grade level, but some of those students didn’t even know what grade they were in. I asked one kid his name, and he kept responding in different ways about how he had turned his form in to somebody else, so I just skipped him and went on to the next person that could answer a question correctly.
Susan from Fast Glass called to let me know they were going to be working on my car, but then she called later to tell me they had the wrong windshield, but they only found out after they removed my old one. She offered a loaner car since they wouldn’t get it fixed until Monday, but then said it wouldn’t start, and that I was out of luck.
After lunch, we eventually made it to the elementary to swap out a couple of carts and backfill others that needed more devices. We have more work to do, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to some of those people. I get that not everybody gets to be an astronaut when they grow up, but it’d be nice if a larger percentage of them would grow up and be useful members of society.
Sometime near the end of the day, our core switch stopped responding and I had to go down to the core closet to reset it. I guess I’ll try to dig into some logs later to figure out what happened, but for now I’m focusing on short-term goals, because school.
I raced back to town so I could run by Fast Glass to see why my car wasn’t charging after they plugged it in, and I had to meet Shaun at Linh’s where they were getting some dinner after leaving work before their posted closing time. He was at least nice enough to let me go down to the shop by myself to try and figure it out. As luck would have it, their crappy extension cord wasn’t grounded properly, so I just had to leave it unplugged.
Then I went home to change so I could go to my parents’ house to swim for a bit. I got so hot and sweaty at work all day that I just wanted to float and cool down for a bit. I wasn’t out there long before we had a short thunderstorm. I got out, but my phone was nearly dead, so I went across town to meet up with Summer at Splash. Then we headed to her house where I warmed up some leftover spaghetti before we called it an early night. Eaddie was out late for their first football game, so we never even saw her, but maybe we’ll have a good day tomorrow.
Inconsiderate