Last night, the West Ada School District Board of Trustees approved a motion to remove the notification of Covid-19 positive cases within the school environment to parents. Previously, parents/guardians were notified if a confirmed positive case was present in one or more of their student’s classrooms. Board members discussed the pros and cons of the notifications and in a 3-2 vote approved discontinuing these notification letters. The Board also directed the administration to start the creation of an endemic plan for current and next school year.

Just to add up to the anxiety of sending my kid to school.

And so, 52 hours later, Tales of Arise has been completed.

It’s a pretty extensive story, to me, it felt like I’ve just watched an entire season, or perhaps two, of a good anime show.

There’s more, apparently, other quests, and a New Game + have been unlocked. I am not entirely sure if I want to replay this whole thing again. I might check it out a bit just to see, but, gotta move on to another games.

Some king, royal figure from Spain visited Puerto Rico today. And what did we do? We destroy a statue of Juan Ponce de León as some kind of protest?

Puerto Rico: statue of Spanish explorer toppled before King Felipe’s visit

A statue of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León has been toppled in Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan, hours before a visit to the Caribbean island by Spain’s King Felipe VI.

🎵 Isla benditaaaaaa

Neil Young Pulling Music From Spotify Over Joe Rogan’s Vaccine Misinformation

In an open letter to his management and record label, Neil Young has asked that his music be promptly removed from Spotify, citing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the platform. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them,” he wrote. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.”

Yikes!

A few weeks ago, I was celebrating the grand triumph of paying off my car. Today, I took my car to the tire shop for a “flat” tire — I was having issues where I had to put air on that tire every 5 days or so — and rotation. Not only did I have one, but two nails on that tire, yikes! But now, it looks like I am going to need breaks. Of course, they quoted me and since they would like to change everything associated with breaks, it would be close to two and a half car payments total.

yay! (said no one ever)

Today, was not only one of the scariest commutes back from work, but also the most upsetting. I don’t think anyone was expecting it to snow today. I can tell because of the way we were all dressed up at work. The not-snow-days pants, the not-snow-days shoes, well, you get the idea.

Also, as I have probably expressed before, my office space, is in a trailer west side of the main building. We have windows, but, my cubicle, does not face any of them. It wasn’t until I went out that I have realized how it was snowing. It was so much and so fast, that I felt like I wasn’t fast enough clearing my car from all the snow. By the time I was done on one side of the car, the other side was already covered in snow again.

Roads were a mess, drivers we also a mess. Judging by my first 10 minutes of driving, I knew I was going to be late to pick Marley at school. A few cars on the sides of the road, in ditches. Slow traffic and small accidents, It was an unannounced snow-apocalypse. Being stuck in traffic because of weather, knowing you’ll be late to pick up your kid as school, is one of the most stressing and upsettings feelings.

Gladly, we called the school, informed them I was going to be late and held Marley inside the school until my arrival.

Phew

What normally would have been a thirty-minute commute to Marley’s school, today, took me an hour and twenty minutes.