So. RFID tracking. That's all well and good, but what about after you buy the article? Is it still trackable past that point? Folks have concerns about this, you know. Folks like me. If it becomes adopted, I sincerely hope it will be restricted to external packaging only.
I have the test for the Systems Administration position at 10 tomorrow. I am arguing with myself over whether to attempt to study tonight or not. I've in weeks past looked over a great deal of documentation written for and about the position, but since I don't know how the test is geared, I don't know how useful it will be. Will it test my potential, or whether I know some SA-ly things already? Will there be a lot of NegiYo-specific stuff on it? Will I totally score the hard questions and completely blow the brainlessly easy ones, which has become something of a pattern on tests in recent years? I'm so used to taking big complex problems and breaking them down to solve them that inherently simple or easy ones stump me. If your main tool is a hammer, everything looks, at least at first, like a nail. If your main tool is a miter saw, everything looks like it could do with an edge-shaving.
I have no idea where I went with that. Wasn't really pertinent, was it?
Well, the kids will be glad to get the day off from school. I just hope I can find some way to keep them quiet while I am gone so that Napalm can get some sleep. They taped a bunch of movies when Cartoon Network had the movie marathon, so maybe these will be of use.
School is going relatively well. We have our good days and our bad days. Today was a bad day - nobody wanted to concentrate and write. Boober came around eventually, but Moomie was a constant struggle. I thought it might help if I illustrate one of the benefits of being in good practice when it comes to writing - that you can do fun things on the fly. I had each of them give me a topic secretly so that I could then compose something for them that combines both topics. It took about fifteen minutes (long before they were finished with their respective worksheets) to belt this little piece out:
Once upon the future, about seventy years from now, I knew this guy from China Luna. You've never heard of China Luna before, because it hasn't been founded yet, in your timeline. In my timeline, China Luna was created from rocket capsules linked up together in Mare Crisium around 2010 or so.
By the time Wang came along, it was a civilian lunar colony, and people from there had a very peculiar hobby that they were famous for. They bred genetic specialty pets. Wang's pet, however, had gone wrong.
Borealis didn't look all that unusual. He had two eyes, like most cats do, as well as four legs, a tail, and whiskers. He appeared to be mostly normal, except for hints of a rainbow sheen in his white fur. How he smelled, though, that's another story. Borealis was probably the most stinky kitty that ever existed.
The first time I encountered Borealis' ... aroma ... Wang caught me rolling my eyes and holding my breath. He became embarrassed, but he explained what had happened.
The cat was bio-engineered to eat silica and other space minerals. Inside his digestive system, extreme heat and pressure, plus several successive chemical processes, were meant to turn these minerals into diamonds, which should have made Wang very rich.
However, he forgot to design the cat in such a way that he actually liked to eat space minerals. Oops. The cat would only eat things made of rubber, and when those old tires, worn-out rubber gloves, and dead gaskets made it to that feline furnace of a stomach, out the back end came the most noxious fumes you could possibly imagine.
Poor Wang. Instead of space diamonds, he got a stinky kitty.
What the children wrote for me:
Moomie - stinky kitty
Boober - space diamonds and minerals
Well, overall, it didn't help. Heavy sigh. They are just going to have to write. It doesn't do you much good to have whatever amount of brainpower if you refuse to read and write.
If only I had their computer going. Acrophobia was showing some promise, as was Trillian, in encouraging them to read and write. If only the damned machine would keep running for longer than 45 minutes at a time. I have to take several machines and monster them together. They just aren't viable on their own anymore. I am not looking forward to yet another Windows install. Wish me luck.
