Evie Day 355
Good morning, and a happiest of Taco Tuesdays to you all. Today is 5 March 2024.
Tonight there will be tacos! I’ll plan an extra order of chips and salsa for the basketball game. Tonight is Senior Night for the KU men’s basketball team as they host the cross-state rival, the KSU Wildcats. KU lost on the road in Manhattan, KS a few weeks ago. Tonight is likely the Jayhawks’ last real chance for a win this regular season.
Lisa and I talked the other night about some of the differences between being a technical trainer and a college professor. One of the key differences is who grades whom. In her classes, she has to monitor her students’ work and hand out grades every semester as her students matriculate toward a degree in mechanical engineering. In my case, I am the one that gets graded every single week by the folks that attend my professional certification courses. That distinction radically affects the approach an instructor takes in delivering content.
The news is filled with info about the Super Tuesday primaries for federal office, including the Presidency. The candidates are pretty much decided – Biden will be the DNC candidate, as he is the incumbent and Trump is the presumptive GOP candidate. There will be third-party candidates as there always are, but from my experience, third-party candidates do nothing more than create a spoiler role for one candidate or another. Ralph Nader affected the election in 2000, Ross Perot affected the election in 1992, and, more recently, the Libertarian and Green Party candidates pulled enough votes away from the DNC candidate to lean the vote towards the GOP candidate, one of the few times in US history that one party win the popular vote while the other party won the Electoral College – the second time this century, however, as Al Gore lost the Electoral College in 2000, but won the popular vote.
I’m back in my virtual classroom in a couple of hours, getting ready to co-deliver a cloud solutions architecture course with one of my favorite coworkers.
It’s about time for me to get a pot of coffee going and some eggs whipped up for an omelet.
For tonight, I wish you all peace, happiness, and tacos… after all, they’re all kind of the same thing.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
