A Comedy of Errors

 Today was one of those days.

Last night, my phone installed updates, and apparently, something turned off my recurring alarm for the morning. So this morning started with me waking up about an hour later than I planned to. This wasn't a humongous issue, as I leave myself lots of extra time so I don't have to rush in the morning, but it did mean that I felt behind from the time I woke up.

As I came out from the shower, Jonathan came in saying that his Canvas courses hadn't updated, so he couldn't access any of the information he needed to complete his classes today. We tried a few things while I was still running around trying to get ready, but nothing was working. I called tech support and got a full voicemail, which led us to believe that his problem was probably one a lot of people were having. So we called the high school and got confirmation that, sure enough, something hadn't updated correctly and lots of students were having issues. 

I left Jon emailing his teachers to get the Zoom information he needed for his classes. I opened the door to the van to put my bags in the back, and there was a little frog sitting on the door pillar. In trying to get him to jump out (I had visions of him landing on my face while I was driving), he jumped over my hand and into the van. Jay helped me chase him down and get him out of the car so I could finally leave for work.

School started off normally enough for the first day back with students. We got through first and second period. After the second period bell, the fire alarm went off. I have an online class third period, so I quickly sent a message to my third period students and then evacuated the building with everyone else. We all knew that something wasn't right, because a scheduled fire drill wouldn't be happening at that time. About 20 minutes later, the building was cleared, I got onto Zoom, and amazingly all my students still came for class. We had to rush through class because of the missed time, but we made it through.

The final "well ok" moment came after lunch. I had several things to print, and the printer on my hallway was out of ink. I sent everything to the main printer down the hall, which worked because some of it needed to be dropped off in the office anyway. I clicked through about a dozen things I was sending and then got a message that there was a jam in the printer. I walked all the way to the print room, and discovered that none of my pages had printed. And the printer wouldn't clear the jam. 

All in all, nothing that happened today was a huge disaster, but it all did make for a long day. Meanwhile, I am grateful that today is done, we had a great family dinner, and tomorrow is a new day!