Beneath the Wraps

          My head has all these half baked ideas slowly making their way to paper and even slower to the computer.   I did listen to most of conference and have comments about various talks.   Roland has finished his schooling and I feared he might become board, but we have projects lined up with even greater interruptions which I am hoping to explain.           I'm certain that I mentioned somewhere that I am a slow reader and an even slower processor.   I'm grateful that I have only one class this time around as it looks like it will be a challenge. The material isn't necessarily boring as much as it is time consuming.   The class itself is on investments and the first week specifically covers real estate and property ownership and what all is included.   Fortunately I have Roland to help me.           There are many ...

        Nobody calls me baby duck,         but that is how I feel for the most part when I am in the pool with my class.           I   seem to lag behind.   Either I am all over the pool (that would be when we're supposed to stay in place) or don't move at all (that would be when we are going to or returning from         the deep end)         Yesterday was overcast until about 2:00.   The pool was warm, but the air was not.   About 56 degrees.   Possibly warmer.   But there was a breeze that seemed to make it feel colder.         The lifeguards wore sweatshirts and         jackets.   They often do.   Our regular instructor was out a...

          When I was in my twelvth mod, I had two classes.   I would try to attend the live lecture of each class.   I think I had attended all four lectures in my algebra class - perhaps only three.   Fortunately there was no problem with the hook-up system (the school uses a program called Zoom) but the instructor in my management class would always have a problem with the system cutting out or recording only audio or video, but not both.   It generally happened whenever she played a video in addition to her lecture.   I told her to stop showing videos and just send us the links.   I don't know if it would have made any difference.           Last mod I also had two classes - two accounting classes.   I still don't understand the language, but I actually did well in both classes.   That is amazing considering what torture it was trying to get into a live lecture or (in mos...

I've turned in the math assignment for this week and have taken the assessment.   One more week and assessment to go .   This is how I truly understand math: If Bob is waiting for his bus at the corner of Lupis and Vine on a Tuesday and he is eating Strawberry ice cream, but not quickly, and his melted ice cream is dripping onto the sidewalk before the bus comes;   meanwhile, three cars have passed and none have bothered to offer Bob a ride, how far is the sun?   If Lisa has agreed to babysit for Mrs. Brown, and walk the dog for Mrs. Green and water plants for Mrs. Plumb, what color is Lisa's shirt?   If Hector collects rocks and balloons and gives one balloon to Kathy for nine seashells, what day of the week is it? I do like my instructor.   I wish I had just one ounce of her passion.   But I don't.   It's math.   I've found some videos that have been helpful.   Others are . . . what ??????   I came across one v...

          I have now completed my economics course.   My instructor has completed grading all of my work, and so I will go ahead and share what I have turned in.           On my first post this month I shared a video of a phone service parody.   This is the discussion that went with it:       "How many of my classmates remember the landline and payphones? Funny how perspective changes from being a child to being an adult. Our responsibilities are not the same, and therefore we view the world in a different way. For example, I never personally had to wait for AT&T to come out and install or repair a telephone, but my mom did. Back then we didn't have the option of cell phones or even provider plans for that matter. The Bell System had a monopoly all across the nation with its "Bell" trademark on every phone booth. Every household that had a phone receiv...

Procrastination drives me CRAZY . . . I don't understand the logic.   Logic?   I don't believe that logic and procrastination can exist at the same time.   Why do people procrastinate?               I've posted a bit about the qualifications for school.   We have to have our initial post on the discussion board by midnight Wednesday.   I have always posted either Monday or Tuesday by afternoon.   It absolutely boggles my mind when I there's not a great selection of those I can respond to as the majority of my classes have students that don't do their initial post until Wednesday night or Thursday morning - or often not at all.   What is up with that?   Granted, the research can eat up much of one's time.   Why not just spend a few hours at the beginning of the week and get it over with instead of creating a post at the last minute.   I suppose I've had time to read through ...

          Eight months after I started this blog, I created this post. Roland actually works for an online school and had taken advantage of furthering his education at a deal.   He would spend HOURS on the computer - and that was BEFORE he started working at home.   That was a LOT of time.           Sometimes he would be frustrated - perhaps for different reasons than I had imagined.   I like having someone hold my hand and walk me through a task - rather than just hand me the instructions. And don't explain things to me on a college level.   I want you to dummy it down like I'm five (I would have gone for a higher number, but Jenna seems to absorb things better than I and has always learned things at an earlier age than I)           Some people have asked why I have gone into accounting as I really don't have ...