Thursday, April 2, 2026

Thursday 10:15 AM: Technical Difficulty

 


I was having a class, this morning, with a student in Moldova when I suddenly couldn’t send him typed messages — I type to help the student understand me. The sending of messages was disabled by the AI for a bunk reason.  I needed human interaction to restore it.

I have been showing the students that there a lot of ways to use the word “cross”.  It can be used as a verb, noun and adjective.  I used this lesson years ago in China around Easter time.

Orthodox Easter is a week later.

During this time, I’m reading my Gueranger.

There’ll be no grocery shopping today unless I go myself.  The scheduling of my online classes precluded our being able to do it in the afternoon.

The Wheat Kings look done. They’re down three games to none in their best of seven series with Calgary.  That triple overtime loss was a killer.

I asked Weiming Zhao what he was up to and he told me was being interviewed by CBC.

Reading the Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McCluhan.  I can now understand what he meant by saying the Medium is the Message.  The Phonetic alphabet, for instance, changed the way we perceive.

Second order thinking.

Maundy Thursday: 6:37 AM


 I’ll be talking to my student in Moldova soon.

Annoying day logistics wise, I have to slot in some grocery shopping amongst all the classes I’m teaching today.

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Wednesday of Holy Week: 8:10 AM

 


No snow last night.

Today, I’ve already talked to Urumqi, prayed the Rosary, extended my Duolingo streak, and did some Twenix onboarding. I still have some planning to do for my classes with Chile, Toronto, Fredericton, Alberta, Istanbul and Moldova.  With it being Easter, I can do an Easter plan, talking about secular Easter and uses of the word Cross.

I got a welcome to the BSD email.  Soon, I’ll be saying where I was teaching.

Thursday 10:15 AM: Technical Difficulty

  I was having a class, this morning, with a student in Moldova when I suddenly couldn’t send him typed messages — I type to help the studen...