Training Log Archive: barb

Continued to work on the lesson plans that Ethan and I worked up for at-home orienteering. I'm pretty excited about them, particularly after getting good feedback from a couple teachers. I made a comic strip for the first one.

I spent a bunch of time this weekend updating our neighborhood O infrastructure. Now I can start from a spreadsheet with information about controls and courses, and automatically generate the PDF and Google Form answer sheets, and then store their IDs into the spreadsheet in another tab. Then I can run a function that collects all the results from all the (~20 currently) courses and puts into one place, so I don't have to click through all the form responses.

Today I really miss Jen, Ethan and Tanairi. We were really on a roll the past few weeks. Now it's up to me to keep things going, so they can come back and we can pick up and make some awesome programs happen when we are allowed to play again!

Went through some neuropsych testing and the opinion is that my cognitive decline is normal age-related. They noted that I do much better on more difficult problems than on easy problems.

C • Well... 2

Biked around Cambridge in the morning to collect some more control locations, and then alongside Isabel as she went for a run.

Today I got feedback from master teacher Linda Fobes on the lesson plans that are under construction.

I also spent a lot of time programming so that we can not only automatically create the Neighborhood-O courses, but also collect results easily and programmatically from dozens of different courses. I'm using Google Apps Scripts.

This evening I'll be taking a couple of hours off to play games with family and friends.

C • Games 5