A Measure of Success

You need to take pleasure in the small successes, I suppose.

I had one of those this week, I think. I made a worksheet for a lab write-up, and I was able to do it in a short period of time. This was a success because it had to be done in a short period of time. Sometimes the time crunch complicates things, but it was ok.
The lab was to make little boats out of aluminum foil and then to sink them with pennies. As it turned out, two of the students said they had done the lab before. One had done it the semester before at Manual (where they do the last chapters first), and one had done the lab in middle school. Either way, they hadn't done that version of the lab, since it didn't exist until the day before. This is another case where if it weren't for the last minute, some things would never get done.
The one not so great thing was the other project I did. It was a bonus project that had a couple of puzzles on it. The problem is that I introduced some typos into the project, and some typos are just hard to catch. I had the code wrong for a secret code (which all showed as typos) and I had two extra boxes in a crossword puzzle. Again, hard to catch.
As for computer problems in general, the one that I'm facing presently is a rather strange one. The other teacher for my class had a computer that got hit with viruses. So, he gave his computer to one of his students to kill the viruses. He's hoping to get it back soon, but for the present he is computer-less. Computer viruses are evil, wicked things -- and that is my professional opinion.
As for the library systems part of life, I have looked at a page making wiki templates, and it was not entirely clear. I'll need to go through some templates to see what to make of some of the codes. The page that I'm supposed to use as a model is worse: it is clearly ugly. The front part is fine, it's the stuff in the background that's not nice to look at. I suspect that a graphical interface was used to generate the code, and that will make slicing and dicing the code even more fun. So, I might slice and dice something I've used before to make it look like that page that is the model. The twist is that I've not used that template for a wiki page, but it is worth a try.