Mercy! Mercy! That Dang Nabed PERCY!

Marital Roulette

Marital Roulette

Today I reached an important milestone in getting ready for my class. I saw it all flash together in my mind. This doesn’t mean I am close to finished; it just means I emerged from the fog and saw the finished product far in the distance. This is better than plodding along hoping that a vision of closure would come to me.

Its been an adventure the scope of which I never imagined at the outset. The project kept expanding and getting bigger and bigger….Now I see a need for a compendium of terms referenced to examples in a pseudo like play written for explanatory purposes. I have written one acts before in a short period so this hurdle should not be that daunting.

I am getting some great support from the administration at New Horizons and before it is all over I am going to have learned more than the students. What I am finding is that an E-Course needs the structure of a traditional lesson planning base but it also needs a means to breath life into such a sterile document. Don’t get me wrong…..these documents are necessary to lead the student along in an environment where there is no flesh and blood teacher….Its like having a customer service problem and not being able to talk to a real person….the instructions have to be as crystal clear as they can possibly be so the student doesn’t waste precious time over the most mundane of matters rather than getting along with the learning.

Anyway I got a lot done today. Linda and I are a bit under the weather and we can grate on each other when we aren’t feeling well. We can also network and do some amazing things, however when we are at our best the sparks have a way of flying….For example last month we installed a new pump on our hydronic outdoor wood heater….This week it was installing a new dishwasher….I’ll be darned if I want to pay a plumber a hundred dollars to hook up three wires, a water line in and a drain out of our new appliance. There is nothing we can’t figure out together except for wall papering…for some reason that is undoable and we finally gave up on it…..Our daughters have dubbed it marital roulette and insist we never attempt it again together.

We almost managed it….if Linda hadn’t been so anal.