The paper push [projects, work]
I am trying to get a flurry of things done before the start of the semester descends.
Some of those things are even related to prepping for classes. Yesterday and today I worked on making updates to the lab manual I first compiled in full last year. Most of the clarifications weren't so much typos as they were clarifications to procedures, or adding in more data tables to the text. I'm relieved that's done for now, although I still have a list of updates I'd like to make. For next year.
Most of the rest of the day's paper pushing was on the behalf of the rowing club. Every year we have to apply for permits for the club's major special events. Getting events permits can be complicated. One complication for us is making sure our regatta doesn't conflict with the Irish Currach Club's regatta. I sent a message last week, then followed up yesterday and got confirmation to proceed. After the applications are in, our municipality (rightly!) requires they be named as additional insured for liability coverage. So then I have to chase that down, and it's a different process for our running event as compared to our rowing events. What's more, since both running and rowing are Olympic sports, it was time to complete my annual SafeSport refresher training to be compliant as an event organizer. The small mercy is that the people who designed that training are far better at developing online trainings compared to the people who developed the online cybersecurity training that my institution uses. (Thankfully, my institution's sexual harassment training is fine, because it uses a set of characters to create an Office Soap Opera).
So, it's nice that some things are done, even though I couldn't completely finalize processes for getting the certificates of insurance yet.
And in the meantime, at home I went through some of the club's major electronics items (coxboxes, coxbox microphones, megaphones, and the batteries for the coxboxes and megaphones) to check them against the inventory, figure out whether anything desperately needs to get sent in for service (so far, so good, fingers crossed...), and figure out what should get put into rotation at the boathouse for 2025 once we're back on the water. Another chore basically out of the way.
I also realized I should have brought the entire boat light charging system home with me, so I can more systematically test all of the boat lights, all at once. So I'll go get that from the boathouse tomorrow. I have an entertaining plan for that test, so I'll take photos of that soon.
Of course, the projects never end. And I haven't made any progress on the worm bin bench since Sunday night. Maybe tomorrow evening...
Some of those things are even related to prepping for classes. Yesterday and today I worked on making updates to the lab manual I first compiled in full last year. Most of the clarifications weren't so much typos as they were clarifications to procedures, or adding in more data tables to the text. I'm relieved that's done for now, although I still have a list of updates I'd like to make. For next year.
Most of the rest of the day's paper pushing was on the behalf of the rowing club. Every year we have to apply for permits for the club's major special events. Getting events permits can be complicated. One complication for us is making sure our regatta doesn't conflict with the Irish Currach Club's regatta. I sent a message last week, then followed up yesterday and got confirmation to proceed. After the applications are in, our municipality (rightly!) requires they be named as additional insured for liability coverage. So then I have to chase that down, and it's a different process for our running event as compared to our rowing events. What's more, since both running and rowing are Olympic sports, it was time to complete my annual SafeSport refresher training to be compliant as an event organizer. The small mercy is that the people who designed that training are far better at developing online trainings compared to the people who developed the online cybersecurity training that my institution uses. (Thankfully, my institution's sexual harassment training is fine, because it uses a set of characters to create an Office Soap Opera).
So, it's nice that some things are done, even though I couldn't completely finalize processes for getting the certificates of insurance yet.
And in the meantime, at home I went through some of the club's major electronics items (coxboxes, coxbox microphones, megaphones, and the batteries for the coxboxes and megaphones) to check them against the inventory, figure out whether anything desperately needs to get sent in for service (so far, so good, fingers crossed...), and figure out what should get put into rotation at the boathouse for 2025 once we're back on the water. Another chore basically out of the way.
I also realized I should have brought the entire boat light charging system home with me, so I can more systematically test all of the boat lights, all at once. So I'll go get that from the boathouse tomorrow. I have an entertaining plan for that test, so I'll take photos of that soon.
Of course, the projects never end. And I haven't made any progress on the worm bin bench since Sunday night. Maybe tomorrow evening...