cleats up

 I walked to Rustle today and realized that I no longer needed the ice cleats that I had been using for the week.

I sorted out our faculty advisors for the projects which took a few hours and I did some more team reviews. I am though 30 teams now. I need to improve the rate of review of 15/day to get through them all before our review meeting.

I wrote this version of Habukkuk 3:17-18 with a covid twist

Though we may not be able to meet in person

Or dine with one another

Though people can't go to work

And the earth is unusually quiet

Though people may dispute over masks and vaccines

And anger and fear overflow

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord

I will joy in the God of my salvation

Not your normal boxing day

 Boxing day downtown was a bit of a ghost town. There were security guards but not many people to police.

It was very icy in the morning when I went to food basics but had improved a bit when I went downtown in the afternoon.

Today was a bit melty and my parents and I went to Owen's Point. Very baeutiful.

Tomorrow I have to review all the teams from the past term (made it through 15 today about 175 left to go) Also to assign all the roles for the next term so that the contracts can be ready for Jan 3 if possible.

Christmas!

Under a freezing rain warning (I had to clean of the car as I was the only one with ice picks on my boots) we drove to Brighton and had a great afternoon with my parents. James got a cool light to accent his music

A wonderful Turkey dinner.

We got home just before the roads were very bad- much of it glare ice.

We'll see how the roads look in the morning.

 

Sausage try #3

 

Made sausages again this morning and it was deemed a success.

Had tacos with brownies as the Christmas eve meal.

Went to Rustle for the Christmas eve service.

Finished up most things for the course website. Hoping that weather is ok for Christmas tomorrow to visit my parents.

Sausage try #2

 Yesterday I tried the "boil and burn" method for the sausages which boils the sausages before they go in the frying pan and James liked that better though they were a bit too crispy. On the right track though.

I tried to catch up on some things today but will have to update the course website tomorrow so that I can copy it for a second version of the course.

approaching 100

 

James wanted more breakfast materials so I picked up some at Food Basics this morning and made bacon and sausage for breakfast. He claimed that the sausages were not crispy enough. They needed to be more "hotel like". So I have to figure that out.

Bacon tomato pizza for dinner, turned out well.

Reunion

 James did a long drive across the country all in one go. Quite a feat. He was tired and sore by the end. He did the chemistry to make a rapid test and he tested negative. He has been eating and drinking a lot and playing online games with his friends.

4 hours

 For some reason I only slept 4 hours/night for the last 2 nights. I thought the result of this was that I would accomplish more but I am not sure that is true.

James is planning to start his drive back tomorrow if everything cooperates.

turkey fried rice

 I seem to have little success at getting the fried rice to have the crust that the recipe suggests. It still tasted good even without the crust.

Tonight was charred corn on flatbreads.

They announced today that we would be remote until the end of Feb which is not good for these students at all. Everyone is working on pivoting now.

tex mex turkey

 I ran some errands in the morning. People seemed pretty anxious in general.

The new toaster arrived today. Haven't tested it yet.

Made tex mex turkey- a black bean salad with turkey on top- was good and healthy too!

too little leaves

 The leaves have all fallen and the back neighbour has a new bright back light so I can see it very clearly.

I have been watching the series of seeing things and being amused by the toronto humour of the 80s.

James today was doing community work by recording a video for children learning to read. The hockey team is a big deal in the community.

too much Omicron

 They decided to send the students home (after they take a covid test- hopefully they only need a rapid test as you can't get an appointment)

This will likely make things more complicated for next term as we have 2 days of exams to make up at some point as they have indicated that Mon and Tues will be rescheduled. Will we start term late? Who knows. Covid strikes again.

Windstorm

 There was a large wind storm last night. I put the recycling boxes in the garage. Everything looks fine from the window right now but I know elsewhere in the city trees came down and many traffic lights are down. Cleanup day today for many people!

Seeing things

 I found some old episodes on youtube of "seeing things". It is still really good and Louie is still annoying. I remember enjoying it as a kid.

A week of Omicron

 This week I tried to recover from the week away and while I was doing that Omicron was working its way through some residences. Anecdotally it does seem that what they were saying about it being a milder version but more contagious seems to be true. The vaccination doesn't seem to help much against the contagion from the amount of my students testing positive. It made for a lot of emails this week!

James' game today was postponed because of bad weather in N.B.

Here all my snow melted before I had a chance to shovel.

on trees

 I have a bunch of photos of some walks around N.B. lots of trees, just haven't downloaded yet. Visiting relatives. Now back in Grand Falls. A tough game for James as the boys weren't quite on their game and had a tough loss. Fredericton has a covid case so the boys needed to get tested again as they had played them Sun. All clear for them for now.

A piece of the wheel well dislodged and had to take it in to get it reattached. 1 week old!