family – Just Ed Things

Being back at Price Chopper on Wednesdays (even if it’s not the same store) was nostalgically fun…..for about 10 minutes. I AM glad most Cosentinos stores do shifts on different tasks now. With all due respect to my former co-workers, there was WAY too much “bailing” on things and not prioritizing what needed done. They always threatened to start doing “shifts” and those of us that COULD prioritize were always like “…….that’s a bad thing?” Being one or two workers short because they split during a rush to do other things is silly.
My feelings about the song aside, Owl City’s “Fireflies” being pitch-corrected to dodge content ID tags has MUCH different energy than the original song.
I really do think farming could be something the younger generation could get into if there wasn’t so much “old blood” running the shows about 10-20 years behind where it could easily be. Maybe that’s just my exposure to midwest farm culture, but it truly feels like an industry that could take off with some practical modern innovations, but too many people that could make it happen aren’t willing to. It genuinely feels like it’s just a matter of “unwilling”, not “unable”.
Being done for the day and back home by 3-3:30ish makes up for being up so early. It just doesn’t feel like it when you’re up so early.
I am finally getting to the point where getting up that early doesn’t feel so “early”, but it does still throw me off when it feels like it should be 10 or 11 and it’s only 9-9:30.
Where were “Boomwackers” when I was a kid?
That being said, having Boomwacker videos where the point the note is supposed to be played changes from video to video is aggravating to me and nobody else ever I’m sure. First-world paraprofessional problems.
Having our classroom as “The Apartment” is so awesome. Having a scale studio apartment with a living area, kitchen, bed, etc. is so neat. You almost forget at times you’re in a classroom. But it also works right into what we’re trying to teach our students.
Having a rare retro videogame system in our room that doesn’t read games but otherwise functions fine makes me sad. I ALMOST feel obligated to try and get it fixed, even out of my own pocket, just to preserve a not-very-common piece of gaming history.
Boy howdy, am I getting my steps in each day. I’m hitting 8K before 3 PM. Heck, on days we go out of the school it’s not uncommon for me to hit 10K before 3PM.
Man, even a month in (or 19 school days as the instructor I assist pointed out today…..holy smokes 19 days…..), the Phase One part of the building still feels like a space ship compared to where I went to High School. Heck, it feels like a space ship compared to Maple Woods, and I remember Maple Woods feeling cutting edge when I went there.
I am where I belong.

Just Ed Things

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Random Tidbits From My First Days at the High School