Apr. 4, 22: Routine, Defining the Word “Noppler,” Teaching, TV, and Games

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Having crashed out for two and a half hours in the afternoon yesterday, I wasn’t really all that tired when it came around to bedtime. Got to sleep around nine thirty, so not too bad, but then with waking up in the night and getting up before five, I ended another hour and a half short again. 😢 The snoring is rough, man, it’s rough.

Anyway, did the usual morning stuff and was frustrated to find that despite my tokens going up, I’m somehow losing even more money…gets worse by the day and doesn’t seem to be reversing (guess that’s the bullishness in the ETH market, but it seems like the second layers should follow suit). That’s a daily aggravation and I really need to just unwind it and get into something else…been saying that for a while. 😡

Otherwise, just the normal routine, got prepared mentally for teaching today deciding what our goals were for material to cover and getting some ideas for examples to cover, then like the actual getting ready: making lunch, getting my briefcase together, making sure everything’s ready to go in the car, and getting a shower and trying (and failing) to get the dog to go out before I left.

Of course, there was creating and publishing my post as well, but the major news came out of Pizza. We’d been talking yesterday about the word “noppler” that has caught on with several people in the server. For the sake of posterity I have included here the first ever recorded usage:

I thought it would be pretty funny if there was a Wikipedia page, and I actually looked into it 😂, but they’ll take it down unless there’s a third party, verifiable source like a published paper or journal or article or whatever. But, as I was joking about it this morning, it hit me that I might be able to add it to Urban Dictionary…and guess what? I did it!!!! 🤣👍

Noppler merch now available! 🤣

I’m wondering now if that might count as a legit third party source for a Wikipedia page; it’s been verified by Urban Dictionary! 🤣😂 We’ll see. Either way I invented a word and actually officially defined it, it’s searchable on the internet. 😁

The drive in to work was a bit rough since there was heavy snowfall, but not too bad, and I got there with time to spare. In Algebra we picked up with looking at matrices and how to find and use inverses to solve systems of equations. We started using row reduction for fitting curves to data, but I left them go before we finished because it seemed like they’d kind of checked out already.

Went out and had lunch, chatted on Discord for a bit and watched some YouTube to kill time until Calculus class. Our primary goal for today was to look at u-substitution combined with definite integrals (where the important thing to remember is to change the bounds to “u” bounds). I also showed them that u-sub works in general for any composite with a linear function inside. Beyond that, we drilled a ton of examples and I let them out a bit early. A couple students stayed after and I fielded questions for a while and then headed home.

No problem on the drive back and I got home right around five. When Wenche got home I guess she wasn’t feeling like cooking, so I got some leftover pizza 🍕 for dinner and then watched some TV.

Seems like we watched a movie that was pretty funny, but now I can’t remember. Mostly just background noise while I played Splinterlands and messed around on Discord.

For once I’d actually drilled all my steps for the day, so once I got my quest done I pretty much just went straight to bed.

Wow! I’m so amazed by the amount of SIM I got today that I’m completely going to forget that it doesn’t at all relate to the stats as shown. dShitty has been doing a reversal towards slightly less shittiness lately; could we dare to hope that it will continue with this trend?

Got a couple more missions done on Rising Star today. Finally got rid of the drunks and my Ego is still under control, so just keeping on for now.

Well, for the second day in a row now, when I went in to HashKings, there were no updates and everything was the same as on Sunday. 😡 They had some down time for maintenance, but it doesn’t seem to be fixed. So, all I have are the same pics from the last couple days:

Played my Splinterlands quest in the evening and was a little frustrated with not making any progress in the ranks.

Still, not too bad. I had Dragon splinter for my quest and got it done in Gold I. Pretty good rewards today! Got mostly cards and an epic:

Otherwise, just the same as far as vouchers and SPS. Staked the one and did nothing with the other (although they did go up by a bit). I did go into the market and grabbed some more of the Pelacore Bandit (Water flying sneaker) to get it to level seven.

Got my stats for last week. Guess I’m more or less parallel with last week. Not really sure why it was so mean about recognizing Beat Saber as exercise (would have had a couple more days), but it’s alright.

Octacordle was rough today, missed two of the words, but I had my best run yet on Sedecordle and finished with two guesses left over! 💪

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