I Broke My Pen!

So last night I had to teach.

I like to write all over the screen

(power point presentation)

so my students stay engaged.

And also it gives me something to do.

But when I grabbed my fancy pen,

it wouldn't work!

Aaaaarrrrggghhh!

I was LOST!

I finally got it to recognize my finger

and wrote on my screen that way...

but it wasn't very good.

(Fat Finger Syndrome)

At the break I quickly looked up 

troubleshooting and it said to go to 

the settings, remove the pen and

then re-pair it with the bluetooth.

So I removed it.

And now it can't FIND it!

I finally got it to see an "unknown device"

but today it won't even see that.

I'm SUPER SAD!

Tomorrow I'll go buy a new battery and

see if that might be the problem, although

before I removed it, it was showing 19%

battery and I would think that would be

sufficient to keep working...

Anyhow.

I can use a regular stylus to write on my

power point, but I MISS MY PEN!!!

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In other news...

Kyle and I spent several hours in the garden yesterday.

He used our super cool "square foot gardening" tool

to measure out where he wanted the tomato plants

and then poke a little hole in the dirt.

You use the little orange "stick" to poke holes

and then there is also a funnel that attaches to 

the holes so you don't lose your seeds.

(If you are planting seeds...)

His tomato starts have great roots

and were totally ready to plant.

The beds look GREAT with all his little guys 

in there!

It went quite quickly.

We may have over done the tomato thing though.

We have FIVE beds full of tomato plants

(a different variety in each bed).

Which means we have something like 136 plants.

We might be drowning in tomatoes in a few months.

He and Rod left this afternoon - they rented a small

UHaul trailer, loaded up Kyle's stuff and headed

to the ranch. They'll get him all moved in this evening,

Rod will spend the night, hook the trailer up to

our truck (Rod followed Kyle - they took 

both trucks) and head to our butcher to pick up

all our meat. (The butcher is halfway between

the ranch and our place...)

Our customers are coming tomorrow after work

to pick up and pay for their beef.

And I'm excited to have meat in my freezer again!

(I have 1 package of ground beef and a pack of

soup bones... that's IT!)

Also, Kyle and I went to the beach for a bit

this afternoon before he left.

A rogue wave roared up and hit us in our

chairs, covering us in water and sand...

so he got in to rinse off.

Said the water was PERFECT!

And yes, he is in the ocean with his hat and sunglasses.

He didn't intend to go that far... was just going to 

rinse off his legs and hands.

You can't really tell, but with all the storms lately,

the sand actually stops right there at the edge

and there is a 2 foot drop straight down!

So when the wave came up, it hit that edge,

crashed over the top and it looked like somebody

took a shovel of sand and threw it on Kyle.

Luckily it missed me (mostly)...

but we had a good laugh!

(As did the people walking by behind us...)

He will miss the beach.

But he'll be back next weekend.

We have lots more to do in the garden...