SEVEN! Sort Of.

So school ends in seven days, although I won't be there tomorrow and I have to go in on the 8th day. Just so we're all clear on that. But here's the laugh. This workshop I'm going to tomorrow (which is actually two workshops, a morning and an afternoon) is something I signed up for months ago. The idea is to find workshops that are a) easy to get to, b) don't take up too much of your own time (say, in an evening), c) cheap enough for the district to be willing to let you go and pay you back for it, and d) on a topic that is somehow related to what you do, because, duh, they won't send you to one if they can't see a connection. I had already forgotten what I signed up for, although I knew it was vaguely computer or Internet related. So I checked my paperwork today, and this is what I'm going to learn:

Blog Workshop: Become a Part of Web 2.0 - in which we will create a blog

and

RSS - in which we will learn to manage information through RSS readers.

Hmmm.

There's more, and I'm sure some stuff I can learn, especially more details about the whole RSS thing (which I will share with you all), but I'm pretty sure I could teach the class on how to start a blog. But hey, you never know where you're going to pick up something useful. What I want to learn to do at this point, and I think I mentioned it the other day, is create a tag cloud, but I doubt I'll get anything on that. Actually, I think all I have to do is tinker with the HTML in that part of my template and take out what makes it a bulletted list. It wouldn't be the totally cool kind of tag cloud, where some words are bigger than others, but it wouldn't be a ten-inch long honking giant list, either.

In other news, I'm stuffed, but I'll bore you with the details at Meals Included, should anyone care. Please do not feel compelled to care, or even read. I should have called that site TMI 24/7. You get the picture.

I think tonight is going to be the last time I post an "update", as it were, at dland, to make my name turn red. From now on, please sign up for my Google Group or bookmark me or whatever you need to do, but if you visit here regularly, or from time to time, please don't forget about me! I'll post a link there to here, but I'm not going to try to put a ... oh, a thingy, I just lost the word, you know, that automatically sends you over here ... because I still link to some of my old entries there, and if I did that, put it in the template, there would be no way ever to see those old entries ... okay, I'm stumbling over myself now, but you get it.

Busy day at work today. But I think K's done subbing for the year; tomorrow is the last day of classes at the high school, and then four days of finals. Even if anyone is out, she's not at the top of the list of subs to be called. She didn't get a call today, and I missed her at lunch.

Oh, voodoo, Roseanne Roseannadanna was a character played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live in the 70's. She was part of their Weekend Update fake news segment, and did "feature" stories in which she whined endlessly about something or other, and often finished with the tagline "It's always something."

Keeping my fingers crossed for more than two hours of sleep tonight ...


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