Arrival

My mother-in-law arrived to visit. Her plane was delayed quite a while due to not having a pilot certified to land on a shorter runway. The Jet Port in Portland is renovating its landing areas and close the longer runway overnight. Since her plane was scheduled to land after 11 p.m., it would be using the shorter runway. Apparently, the co-pilot was certified to land, but they needed both pilots to be certified. It took several hours for a crew to be identified and assigned. An 11 p.m. pick-up became a 4:30 a.m. pick-up.

Graduation

D2 has officially completed all the “graduation” stuff. She was willing to participate in the official commencement exercises, so we got to see her walk across the stage and get “hooded”. The trip was a nice time. My mother-in-law also was able to witness her graduating.

Workflows

I’ve begun working on truly implementing workflows for work. We have a WordPress set up, the appropriate plug-ins installed (Gravity Forms and Gravity Flow), as well as the mail system. I had to take a break to work on some video work (see below), but it is coming along.

MLTI Conference

We took about 45 kids to the MLTI conference this year. I met them up at the University of Maine since my house is between work and the University. It was a nice experience for the kids. The kids attended two sessions plus a closing experience. I was assigned six eighth-grade boys. They were great.

Video

I spent a full day and a bit time the next day editing a video for work. There was an important School Board Workshop. We use an OWLY to record the meeting. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really capture the slides being presented. So, I inserted the slides into the video. Thank you “Picture in Picture” within iMovie. This does take a good bit of work. Not the most exciting work, but important.

City Chicken

Rm and my mother-in-law made City Chicken (breaded chunks of pork and veal on a skewer) today. We invited a couple of friends over (who have never had City Chicken). This was the first time for Rm to make City Chicken.

As always with Rm’s cooking, the meal was fantastic. There was a crumble for dessert, with real homemade whipped cream brought by the guests. The company was great as well.

Charm

We took my mother-in-law for a trip on the Schooner Charm. Rm and I took her mom out on the Charm for an afternoon sail. The weather was sunny and beautiful. There was a hint of a breeze.

Rm was dazzling as always. Her mom was jacketed and hatted. Her mom said that she enjoyed the trip.

The Captain was entertaining. He relays the history of the schooner. It is easy to see that he enjoys doing this.

Dinner

For dinner, we walked down to Nautilus Seafood and Grill. They have a pretty wide menu, helpful given my mother-in-law’s taste, so we were all able to find a good dinner. It was also surprisingly affordable. I had the Fish and Chips, one of my favorites, while my lovely wife had a Haddock sandwich. My mother-in-law had the pulled pork sandwich. They also had burgers, other sandwiches, and lots of seafood options.

52 Frames

I’ve now completed 21 straight weeks of the 52 Frames Photo Challenge.

Well, given that I submitted my 19th consecutive 52Frames photo, and this is Weekly Review 10, I’m tracking at just about a “weekly” review every two weeks.

I’ve had a couple of interesting weeks though since my last posting.

Vacation

First and foremost, Rm and I took a bit of a vacation. This seems odd to me as it was always tough to take a vacation during the school year. New times.

Rm and I went to see Cabaret at the August Wilson Theater in New York. The show stars Eddie Redmayne (the Emcee), Gayle Rankin (Sally Bowles), Bebe Neurwith (Fraulein Schneider).

The audience was requested to come in early as there were experiences before the show. The doors opened and we were led along a lengthy walk. Partway through, we were handed a shot of cherry schnapps. This was to be consumed prior to entering.

The Before Show show featured several dancers and musicians. It was well done and entertaining.

Cabaret was really well done and entertaining. There is so much applicability to our times. The cast was wonderful, filled with lots of good performances.

I did note that not everyone “dresses” for the theater. The prevalence of baseball caps and jeans on gents as old as or older than me was interesting.

This was a wonderful evening.

WordPress process

I think that I’ve found the process for embedding my pictures (for now). Generally, I upload my pictures to Google Photos, free storage, and then use Labnol to create a link to the image. This is because Google Photos doesn’t allow embedding. Anyway, I create the link in Labnol. Then I use the direct link (not the embed) to add an image in WordPress. I also use the direct link to add the “Featured Image”. Next, add the Alt Text, always add appropriate alt text.

OBS Frustration

OBS is powerful. I need to learn more about it. Every once in a while, a frustration point arises though. The current frustration point is that the mouse pointer is misaligned with the location on the screen. This makes it frustratingly hard to resize anything as it is nearly impossible to click a handle. I’ve been doing some research, but no answers as of yet.

Google Filters

I just went to save Filter view of the spreadsheet in Google Sheets, and things have changed. Not for the better.

It used to be that Sheets had a disclosure triangle next to the filter icon. Any saved filters would be listed. Very handy. Now, not only are saved filters hidden in a Menu item, but even getting to where you can save a filter is under the Menu item as well.

Camera Backpack

I’ve picked up a new camera backpack. I went with something a little different. I’m not sure different is good here, but we’ll see. This one has two sections, a top that is like a traditional backpack, and a bottom that opens from the front. The idea is that all of the lenses go in the bottom section, nicely protected, while the camera and accessories go in the top. One problem is that the divider uses velcro to keep the division. This took a while to get to where if felt secure. I’m still a bit suspicious of it.

Interview Project

I got the opportunity to teach a couple of eighth-grade classes how to record and transcribe interviews. They will be interviewing someone who has immigrated to Maine. They won’t appreciate how much easier transcription is now, but I sure do.

Blogging

So, I’ve learned that the value of blogging is mostly very personal and limited. I’ve been extremely happy that I posted about something. In one case, I was looking for something really specific, doing the generic Google search, and found that the best write-up was by me.

So, I’ve learned to search my blog for questions that I have. In the process of doing so, I discovered a write-up on Being Quoted. This brought me a smile. Maybe I should randomly pull up a blog post in the future. Or, maybe I should find an application that randomly pulls up a quote from my blog for me.

Mother’s Day

Both kids were around for Mother’s Day. They made a wonderful breakfast of eggs benedict. There were also some plants planted.