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The Anchorage, Part 3
- Thread starter Lorraine
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Yay for school holidays!
Another month or so, and I start taking Fridays off. This has been such a long year already! We have an office move next month that I'm so not looking forward to. Parking will be double at the new location. Ouch! And we will be working in cubicles instead of offices
So much for being productive. Everyone says ... just wear headphones. But ... headphones increases my tinnitus, and earbuds hurt my ears. So ... what's a person to do?!?
Another month or so, and I start taking Fridays off. This has been such a long year already! We have an office move next month that I'm so not looking forward to. Parking will be double at the new location. Ouch! And we will be working in cubicles instead of offices
So much for being productive. Everyone says ... just wear headphones. But ... headphones increases my tinnitus, and earbuds hurt my ears. So ... what's a person to do?!?
It's certainly great to have the Friday off...that said we've been doing a lot of work around the house and I've spent many of them this year dealing with tradies!
I feel for you with the move Satira...I work in an open plan classroom with 3 grades one of which is a prep grade this year and the noise can be horrific...
I feel for you with the move Satira...I work in an open plan classroom with 3 grades one of which is a prep grade this year and the noise can be horrific...
OMGosh Pen! I can't imagine trying to teach in that type of a classroom. Much less trying to learn!
Terre
Renowned
Good to see you. I've been wondering when you'd have time to poke in here.
Terre
Renowned
Yipe! The only time I was in a classroom where there were three grades at once was in '68-'69 at the International School in Tokyo. One teacher did grades 1-3 and another did 4-6. The 1-3 class (I was in 1st grade) had less than a dozen students that year.
Twelve students wouldn't be that bad, but here in the US, you're lucky if you have less than 30 for each grade. Then again, I'm not sure there's that many in the very low grades (1-4), but certainly when you get to the upper grades, the classes are large for each grade, so I can't imagine combing two grades together. Also, in most grade schools here, there's several classes for each grade, so we're talking possible 3 or 4 times that many students in one classroom at the same time?? I can't imagine that ever happening, unless it's a private school where they keep the classes small.
Terre
Renowned
Gotta' call an electrician tomorrow. One of the GFIC outlets in the kitchen has a problem.
Have to just use the back room window unit A/C for now. The kitchen one is plugged into an outlet on the same breaker as the bad one. At least the weather is mild at this time. This would be a serious problem in June.
Have to just use the back room window unit A/C for now. The kitchen one is plugged into an outlet on the same breaker as the bad one. At least the weather is mild at this time. This would be a serious problem in June.
Terre
Renowned
If it only occasionally gets noisy that's not too bad.
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
I received a letter this morning inviting the girls and myself to perform at the annual Morecambe Music Festival, so unless we can find a bass player I could be making a comeback after 40 years! Wow! Eat your hearts out Status Quo, even you didn't manage that!
Mythocentric
Extraordinary
Could be fun! The last time I played in front of an audience was at the annual Clitheroe Blues & Folk Festival which took place in the castle grounds before an audience of about a thousand (mostly stoned) people of youthful aspect! I also remember that my hair had a much greater presence than today, it now being mostly confined to my chin (and which Lucy keeps threatening to plait for me!). Sara and Laura, on the other hand, are relative newbies before a live audience. While they have performed for small audiences, mostly at their respective schools and are regular performers at our weekly jam sessions at the local music shop under Eric's (the owners) guidance so are pretty much use to performing with pro muso's (Eric himself was the go-to guy for the Everly Brothers on the English leg of their tours), the transition to working in front of a live audience where you are the centre of attention could be a pretty big step at this point in their careers. I haven't told them yet and will wait until I've got them both together at the weekend and see what they say! Meanwhile, I still need to find a drummer which is a whole other ballgame. There are plenty of them around but mostly of a rock persuasion. Drummers sympathetic to the blues are another thing altogether (think hen's teeth!). Eric is going to sound out the guys who turn up at the jam sessions so we'll see how it goes from there. 
Terre
Renowned
Electricians had a job in town that the got done quickly so they swung by here and were able to get us taken care of too. They will be sending a bill.
Jim says: And, as it turned out, the answer was "there was a short both in the socket and at the breaker box which essentially left the entire house as one gigantic resistor in the circuit." Which very likely explains why we sometimes had CFL lights that were supposed to last years only last weeks. But, yes, this is why I say "if you need house repairs done, hire a licensed professional."
They will be sending a bill.Jim says: And, as it turned out, the answer was "there was a short both in the socket and at the breaker box which essentially left the entire house as one gigantic resistor in the circuit." Which very likely explains why we sometimes had CFL lights that were supposed to last years only last weeks. But, yes, this is why I say "if you need house repairs done, hire a licensed professional."
DanaTA
Distinguished
I replaced the ceiling lights in the kitchen last year. One of them the one that we used most, kept killing bulbs. It had two sockets. I left it to use only one socket. CFL bulbs would flicker, make a strange noise, and just burn out suddenly. When I took the old fixtures down, I found out why. There were cuts or cracks in the insulation going to that socket. We're extremely fortunate it didn't burn the house down. No ground wire, either. The new fixtures are LED. Not bulbs, little square dots...bunches of them. The cover diffuser hides that fact, it just looks like one large glow. Really nice, and bright. They have ground wires, too. The second one was a quicker install, because I hassled with the first one and learned.
Dana
Dana