School’s OUT! Summer is almost here!
Sunday, May 20, 2007 at 
10:44 am ()
Friday was the last day of school for students. I have to work Monday, but after that… summer vacation! Whoo-hooo!
Friday was insanely busy. I didn’t go into work Friday morning. Friday was Katee’s 8th grade promotion. I can’t believe she is going to be in high school next year. 
It’s crazy. She got her perfect attendance award. I could have NEVER in my life gotten one of those. One kid has had perfect attendance for 8 straight years! :O
After the promotion, Colin and Katee dropped me off at work. Mrs. Carol (one of the custodians) and I set right to work to finish moving all the old Compaq computers to the blue pod hallway. I got so many questions throughout last week about those computers. People still can’t get over the fact that we are crushing them all. Anyway, unhooking computers, moving them all around the school, and stacking them up in piles is hard work. I actually have some bruises on my arm from carrying monitors (I assume). We got most of the computers moved.
When school let out, Colin came and helped me move the computers and tables in the lab. The way the lab was set up was annoying because there was no room on the floor in front of the SmartBoard. This was annoying because I couldn’t get kids seated back there very well (especially the big kids). I had like no floor space in there either. There were rows all over the place. We moved the computers so that, for the most part, they are against the wall. This totally opens up the middle of the floor. The room looks so much bigger and open. We set up some of the tables back to back so it made a little “station.” Colin also fixed all the wiring so that I don’t have to use the annoying plugs in the floor. He used the network hubs that I had in various places. Now kids won’t be as likely to trip over cords because there aren’t any cords plugged into the floor. Mrs. Carol and I moved a few more computers too. I’ll have to finish a few things on Monday.
Colin and I went out to eat that night at O’Charley’s in Hopkinsville. Yum yum. Our waitress was silly, of course. We came home and watched one of our Netflix movies. A Japanese movie about these two little boys who wanted a tv, and their parents wouldn’t buy one. So…the boys decided not to talk anymore. The youngest boy was retty cute. 
I never have heard anything else about my “illegal job.” I guess no news is good news. I’m sure the district made up some B.S. about what CIA’s in the computer lab do. Lies. Oh well, not my problem anymore (I hope).
I have to go through all my forms so I will be ready to place them on computers and tables tomorrow. I hope I get all of that sorted out. I also have to figure out where these three Compaqs are going that we have to keep. I’m sure I have that in my inventory somewhere…
My smilies aren’t validating. I installed the Custom Smilies plugin, and liked it until I found out it doesn’t give a alt attribute to the smilies. I tried to go and edit that bit of code myself, but it didn’t work. I’ll have to find another smiliey plugin soon. Any recommendations? I’m also working on some modifcations to my layout or possibly a new layout. 
Okay, enough. I am hungry. My stomach is saying so. Literally.
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10 Comments so far
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Anna scribbled this note on May 20th, 2007: 
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Hi Ashley! Thanks for visiting my site!
Im using WP Grins - just look it up in the WP Extend section. That is compatible with 2.1.3 if youre using the latest version of WP
Right Im off to see your mutterings
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uhh i think i’m using custom smilies…lol i tried wp grins in there somewhere and i’m not sure which one i’m using anymore. blah. fine, i’ll go check. lol *checks* yes i’m using custom smilies. works good for me
btw you are such an overachiever! a new layout? already??yay for summer!!
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School being out is cool and all except when you want to head out to the mall or something but find it overrun by teenagers. Makes me feel old thinking that seeing as how I still kind of feel like one of those teenagers. Even walking around with my four year old daughter, lol.
It’s a shame they aren’t donating all those old computers. At least to kids who lost things in tragedies like Katrina. yeah, I can hear it, what the heck are people who are most likely homeless gonna do with a computer?
Melissa and I met this weekend! It was awesome! Now you just have to take a day vacation and head up this way and hang out with us. Must get Angela too!
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Wootness for school being out :D! And congrats to your sister, perfect attendance is a serious accomplishment!
For my smilies I use WP Grins, which is an awesome plugin :D!
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Wow, perfect attendance award? I could never get one of those either.
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Grats to Katee!
Wow, you did a lot of work moving that stuff around! YAY for school being out, WOOOOOO! I still hope things go ok with your job, the computer lab really should be an official position.And DITTO to what Arien said, we all must get together!!!! I’ll just stalk and bug Arien until the rest of us meeeeeet!
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Perfect attendance award? I’d never get one those… never, lol.
I’m just using wp-grins, but I tired of it ages ago. Just too lazy to go and hunt for something new and better.
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I have finished uni for summer too! Yay for the summer holidays!
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Ah. Moving computers is such a pain. I remember helping out my computer lab teacher, and I dropped a printer on the floor. Luckily, it didn’t fall on any feet.
Oh, and thanks for the congrats. I really appreciate it! -
moving computers eck! definately something i would avoid, i remember wheni just moved, and i had to move one… mine. it was so crazy i felt like it was a child, and my entire life was on it!!
if i had dropped it ! oh gosh i would have died!
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