Yesterday was a bit of a dumpster fire
Jan. 11th, 2024 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
knit1purr2Today is Thursday. Tuesday a major storm came through our area, schools closed 2 hours early so much rain. Due to a large portion of our county being on the bay the school buildings were closed today and the kids had an asynchronous school day. They would have to log on to the site by 2pm and complete whatever the teachers had put up. Not looking forward to it but whatever I will deal.
It is 9 am Wednesday, Kiddo and I sit down to see what the work is and just after we opened it, the internet went down. Not a worry i thought, lets cycle the router and it should come back in 5 minutes or so. It didn't so after telling the kiddo to go do something else I reached out to Verizon. I start out on their website (thank you mobile data) running through the first few steps. yes my router is on, yes I have turned it off and turned it back on again. And eventually they are like, you should talk to a person. So I call and the customer service rep has me do the same things again. no lucky. they try things on their end. 40 minutes goes by. then he asks well was there a storm in your area, yes I say. So then I am put on hold while they reach out to a local team. Then we find out that a wire was cut so maybe we will have internet back by 9pm. but for sure by Saturday.
During one of the points on hold, I have told kiddo that we will go to the library to do his homework if we don't have internet. So now that i know we aren't going to have it all day that has to happen. I also reach out to my work and tell them that I am calling out. I can't work from home and I have a kiddo home that I will have to help with the 'virtual schooling'.
God bless libraries. I had called earlier to verify that they still had wifi so going there wouldn't be a waste of time. During COVID they boosted their wifi so that you can get a good strong signal in the parking lot. So kiddo and I hung out in my van to start doing work. The first set of stuff wasn't bad, 8 math problems, read this story and answer questions about the setting and the character and the moral. After we did this we took a break to go into the library to return books and run around a little. Then the teacher was having a google meet at noon to check in and explain what the kids needed to do (and possibly take attendance) so we get onto that eventually the big thing that we heard from that was he had to do 1 lesson is math and 1 lesson is reading on the program they use in school. That was the one that was difficult. We did the reading one that took about 15 minutes. Then started the math. And you would think for a kid who likes math this would be the easiest one. It wasn't. he did 5 minutes and then just started complaining. So we took another running around outside break. And before we went back to math the gym teacher had a powerpoint adventure that had thim doing certain dance moves ore lunges or grapevine walks just to move around. That helped. Finally we got back to math and he finished it.
At this point I was losing my mind. I had spent about 2.5 hours with this kid getting him ready to leave the house, sitting next to him has he did his work, taking breaks and then trying to get him refocused. I was already dealing with bad sleep, aches, exhaustion and frustration that I had to call out because of today that I was at my wits end. So i brought kiddo back home and told Kyle, "You're it". Then I went back out.
I started by getting myself food. At this point it was like 1:30 and I hadn't eaten since 8? So I went to a place that has gyros and got some food. Then I got gas and then went to the grocery store. No this isn't really the most relaxing thing I could do but I know I needed to do these errands so that I had food in the house and everything was ready to go.
So about 90 minutes later I am back home. A bit more centered. Played the untitled goose game with him a little bit until it was time to go get the baby.
Thankfully by the time I got back home with the baby the internet was back and we were able to have a pretty normal evening.
I just really glad that today is back to normal everyone is where they need to be (except kyle who is working from home vs going into the office, but he doesn't need a ton from me typically)
It is 9 am Wednesday, Kiddo and I sit down to see what the work is and just after we opened it, the internet went down. Not a worry i thought, lets cycle the router and it should come back in 5 minutes or so. It didn't so after telling the kiddo to go do something else I reached out to Verizon. I start out on their website (thank you mobile data) running through the first few steps. yes my router is on, yes I have turned it off and turned it back on again. And eventually they are like, you should talk to a person. So I call and the customer service rep has me do the same things again. no lucky. they try things on their end. 40 minutes goes by. then he asks well was there a storm in your area, yes I say. So then I am put on hold while they reach out to a local team. Then we find out that a wire was cut so maybe we will have internet back by 9pm. but for sure by Saturday.
During one of the points on hold, I have told kiddo that we will go to the library to do his homework if we don't have internet. So now that i know we aren't going to have it all day that has to happen. I also reach out to my work and tell them that I am calling out. I can't work from home and I have a kiddo home that I will have to help with the 'virtual schooling'.
God bless libraries. I had called earlier to verify that they still had wifi so going there wouldn't be a waste of time. During COVID they boosted their wifi so that you can get a good strong signal in the parking lot. So kiddo and I hung out in my van to start doing work. The first set of stuff wasn't bad, 8 math problems, read this story and answer questions about the setting and the character and the moral. After we did this we took a break to go into the library to return books and run around a little. Then the teacher was having a google meet at noon to check in and explain what the kids needed to do (and possibly take attendance) so we get onto that eventually the big thing that we heard from that was he had to do 1 lesson is math and 1 lesson is reading on the program they use in school. That was the one that was difficult. We did the reading one that took about 15 minutes. Then started the math. And you would think for a kid who likes math this would be the easiest one. It wasn't. he did 5 minutes and then just started complaining. So we took another running around outside break. And before we went back to math the gym teacher had a powerpoint adventure that had thim doing certain dance moves ore lunges or grapevine walks just to move around. That helped. Finally we got back to math and he finished it.
At this point I was losing my mind. I had spent about 2.5 hours with this kid getting him ready to leave the house, sitting next to him has he did his work, taking breaks and then trying to get him refocused. I was already dealing with bad sleep, aches, exhaustion and frustration that I had to call out because of today that I was at my wits end. So i brought kiddo back home and told Kyle, "You're it". Then I went back out.
I started by getting myself food. At this point it was like 1:30 and I hadn't eaten since 8? So I went to a place that has gyros and got some food. Then I got gas and then went to the grocery store. No this isn't really the most relaxing thing I could do but I know I needed to do these errands so that I had food in the house and everything was ready to go.
So about 90 minutes later I am back home. A bit more centered. Played the untitled goose game with him a little bit until it was time to go get the baby.
Thankfully by the time I got back home with the baby the internet was back and we were able to have a pretty normal evening.
I just really glad that today is back to normal everyone is where they need to be (except kyle who is working from home vs going into the office, but he doesn't need a ton from me typically)
