I didn't sleep at all last night
I think that is supposed to be a romantic song title but, in my case, it is bloody steroids. So I have now been awake for 27 hours and am feeling fine - just wish I'd got up earlier. Once I've finished this (which is likely to take a while as someone seems to have rearranged my keyboard) I intend to stain a single plank on the deck and then hold down a sunbed for an hour or two. So if you smell barbecuing long pig, that'll be me.
I think I have finished my educational excursions for the summer - just polished off a couple of online courses. One was on scraping data from websites and I think the biggest thing I learned from it was that everything I have ever told my students about there not being any huge differences between Python 2 and Python 3 is complete cobblers when it comes to web scraping. Still, I got it sorted out and feel in a position to teach it in my advanced programming course next year, if that course actually runs (last time I heard, "they" wanted me to teach it at the same time as the introductory programming course which would be like having two piano students studying Mary Had a Little Lamb and a Rachmaninov concerto at the same time. Fortunately, one of "they" is no longer at the school.)
The other course was on algorithms and, once I realised what some of the words the Russian lecturers were using actually were, it was really good. My big mistake was doing all the basic problems first (on which I got 100%) and saving the optional ones for the last week. Problem was that once I finished the last basic problem, the automatic scorer gave me my grade, giving me zeroes for all the optional exercises. Still, 73.5% was a pass mark though not one I plan to get framed.
On the meds front, I've switched back to the drinkable form of the Glutamine - it's not too bad when spiced up with a drop of Mio lemonade flavour (adv).
Talking of drinking, I fell off the wagon earlier this week, courtesy of Kitchen & Co - they keep all their no-alcohol beer together on a bottom shelf in the imported beer section so I grabbed a couple of 6 packs of Clausthaler and a couple of Becks. I was feeling a bit rough last Friday and poured myself a Becks. Having drunk half of it, I decided it tasted bloody terrible and I poured it down the sink. I felt much better on Saturday so thought I'd try another Becks to make sure the whole batch wasn't dud. It didn't taste awful but it didn't taste too good, either. Closer inspection of the bottle once I'd drunk the beer (and you do need to inspect it closely) revealed it to be a full strength beer. Good job I hadn't drunk the entire 6 pack and then decided to drive a school bus. They couldn't have been nicer at Kitchen & Co, gave me my money back and even led me, not quite by the hand, to where the non-alcoholic beer lives, thereby giving me the pleasure of saying "neener" as they had a bunch more "real" Becks there, too. So I did a trade-up to Erdinger which does taste decent.
I've spent this morning scouting around for a part-time programming job. It turns out that most recruiters these days use an automated CV reader that picks out (or fails to pick out) the salient facts. One such recruiter offered a free CV analysis report which I jumped on. Nobody tells you how they expect your CV to be laid out and, because I hadn't listed the names and dates I'd worked for companies that nobody here has ever heard of, they told me I had no relevant experience and was qualified only for an entry level clerical job in a computer department. So I spent a couple of hours fixing that.
Final check - the sound of the nearest bathroom fan was driving me nuts. The indoor temperature is still stuck on 77 - it is 72 outside. Another fine theory bites the dust.
I think I have finished my educational excursions for the summer - just polished off a couple of online courses. One was on scraping data from websites and I think the biggest thing I learned from it was that everything I have ever told my students about there not being any huge differences between Python 2 and Python 3 is complete cobblers when it comes to web scraping. Still, I got it sorted out and feel in a position to teach it in my advanced programming course next year, if that course actually runs (last time I heard, "they" wanted me to teach it at the same time as the introductory programming course which would be like having two piano students studying Mary Had a Little Lamb and a Rachmaninov concerto at the same time. Fortunately, one of "they" is no longer at the school.)
The other course was on algorithms and, once I realised what some of the words the Russian lecturers were using actually were, it was really good. My big mistake was doing all the basic problems first (on which I got 100%) and saving the optional ones for the last week. Problem was that once I finished the last basic problem, the automatic scorer gave me my grade, giving me zeroes for all the optional exercises. Still, 73.5% was a pass mark though not one I plan to get framed.
On the meds front, I've switched back to the drinkable form of the Glutamine - it's not too bad when spiced up with a drop of Mio lemonade flavour (adv).
Talking of drinking, I fell off the wagon earlier this week, courtesy of Kitchen & Co - they keep all their no-alcohol beer together on a bottom shelf in the imported beer section so I grabbed a couple of 6 packs of Clausthaler and a couple of Becks. I was feeling a bit rough last Friday and poured myself a Becks. Having drunk half of it, I decided it tasted bloody terrible and I poured it down the sink. I felt much better on Saturday so thought I'd try another Becks to make sure the whole batch wasn't dud. It didn't taste awful but it didn't taste too good, either. Closer inspection of the bottle once I'd drunk the beer (and you do need to inspect it closely) revealed it to be a full strength beer. Good job I hadn't drunk the entire 6 pack and then decided to drive a school bus. They couldn't have been nicer at Kitchen & Co, gave me my money back and even led me, not quite by the hand, to where the non-alcoholic beer lives, thereby giving me the pleasure of saying "neener" as they had a bunch more "real" Becks there, too. So I did a trade-up to Erdinger which does taste decent.
I've spent this morning scouting around for a part-time programming job. It turns out that most recruiters these days use an automated CV reader that picks out (or fails to pick out) the salient facts. One such recruiter offered a free CV analysis report which I jumped on. Nobody tells you how they expect your CV to be laid out and, because I hadn't listed the names and dates I'd worked for companies that nobody here has ever heard of, they told me I had no relevant experience and was qualified only for an entry level clerical job in a computer department. So I spent a couple of hours fixing that.
Final check - the sound of the nearest bathroom fan was driving me nuts. The indoor temperature is still stuck on 77 - it is 72 outside. Another fine theory bites the dust.
Vbgg
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