I took another sleeping pill and again slept well. I hope I won't get the least bit addicted to them, though. The doctor gave me 14 of them, I think, which should mean that one can take them every night for 2 weeks without any problems. Still, I'm just a little skeptical.
Let's start with what I forgot yesterday. I watched the video for the Data Science class that was supposed to help me with the first assignment, but, instead it convinced me that there was no way I would be able to do the class. I'm just not that fluent with the modern programming languages and, more importantly, the various ways of accessing them and working with them. I'm sure I could learn it, but not fast enough. The work-load for the class also seemed to be quite heavy, even for someone who IS up-to-date. The bottom line is that I decided to drop the class. I felt a little bad about it, but mostly I just feel relieved. I certainly don't regret the time I spent getting acquainted with Python, though -- that was actually a lot of fun in itself!
I got a little more work done on my music today. I'm currently working on orchestrating Avinu Malkenu.
I was scheduled to teach 6 units of Berlitz today (9:00-10:30, 4:15-5:45, and 6:30-8:00). However, in the end, I only taught the morning class. For the last 2 or 3 days, I had noticed that my the monitor on my PC (my Windows XP machine that I use only for Berlitz) had begun taking longer to come back up when I pushed the button on the PC to wake it from sleep. Last night, in fact, I was worried enough about it to leave the monitor on all night. It's probably a good thing I did because, when I tried to bring it up this evening for my 4:15 class, it NEVER came up, and so I lost both my evening classes. Alex, the Berlitz tech support guy thought that it was probably the computer that was bad, but he did estimate that there was about a 30% chance that it was the monitor. I took computer to a local computer shop, and they plugged in one of their monitors and were able to bring it right up. So, the problem was clearly with my monitor. I bought a new one from them. It cost me 750 shekels, but it's worth it because it's a very large monitor and it's LED which, according to what they told me, uses about 1/10 of the power of an LCD monitor.
We ate lunch at Greg café today, and after that we drove up to Yotvata and bought 2 more kilos of dates (which we eat every day for breakfast).
We got back at right around 4:00, and so I immediately tried to get into the classroom for my 4:15 class. We can enter up to 15 minutes before the start time. Of course, I was unsuccessful, but I was very busy trying everything I could think of, including even the possibility of using Windows XP running under Parallels on my Mac. Obviously, it was all for nothing.
As if that weren't bad enough, when I unplugged the computer and started out with it to get it checked, I discovered that David was lying on the bedroom floor and had obviously fallen. I had been so busy with trying to get my computer to work that I hadn't heard him at all. He was conscious and not injured, other than feeling sore and complaining of a headache. Of course, it's never easy to get him up, but I did finally manage to get him onto his knees, then got his hands up on the bed, and then he was able to stand up. I guided him to his chair in the living room. After checking him thoroughly, I told him to stay in the chair while I was gone. I even brought the urinal in case he needed to pee. I didn't want him getting up and falling while I was away. And, sure enough, when I came back (with my computer and its new monitor), all was well with David.
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