{"id":573892773,"date":"2020-11-18T21:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892773"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:09:56","slug":"no-calculator-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/no-calculator-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-post\/","title":{"rendered":"No calculator was harmed in the making of this post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weird time. I have a normal work schedule on Wednesdays. My weeks during the semester are normally split. I&#8217;m done at a respectable hour on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are long, but these other days I feel like a normal person. Except I am now old enough to feel the effects of a split schedule in ways I didn&#8217;t when I was 23, and so it doesn&#8217;t feel especially normal. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m honestly not sure how Mondays work anymore, since I&#8217;ve largely been working from home on Mondays since March. But I&#8217;ve been going in four-days-a-week since July, and in August the students came back and in September we ramped up production and so it went like this. I would leave campus just after 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and then go work a 9-5 day on Wednesdays. And then I would leave the building on Thursdays closer to 9 p.m. and work another regular day on Fridays. Well, on Friday afternoon the weekend feelings kick in. So that is taken care of. But Wednesdays? And now that it&#8217;s dark by 5:30. That, of course, presupposes the midwestern cloud cover lets any natural direct light shine through. <\/p>\n<p>Like today, for instance. High 44. It was partly cloudy. And then the sun set (I had no idea the sun came out. I was hiding under fluorescent light all day.) at 5:25. That&#8217;s about the time I got to the house. So no bike ride for me. What am I going to do with the evening?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did you do with the evening?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you, dear and gentle reader. We fact checked a story The Yankee was reading. It was about some lavish meal somewhere. How could all of these things &#8212; the story itemized many of the plates &#8212; only amount to a little over two grand? <\/p>\n<p>It was, when you heard the many items, a fair question. <\/p>\n<p>So I pulled up the menu for a restaurant 634 miles away and we analyzed the data.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov20\/nov14.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While some specifics were left out of the story, to protect the carnivores, one presumes, we ultimately decided that the total bill was plausible and likely.<\/p>\n<p>And I subsequently decided I needed something better to do. <\/p>\n<p>And did I find it? No, I did not.<\/p>\n<p>But I will.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerfeather.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>TV shows, for those who like TV shows. These are the last episodes the news crew will produce in the studio this fall. I am urging them to do more stuff remotely between now and when we reconvene in person in February.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfaQsLFY51w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They even teased a winter series of stories in here, which was nice. Now they&#8217;re on the record! They have to follow through! <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7JqSZSuMZ_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Saying publicly that you&#8217;ll do something is a great motivator.<\/p>\n<p>They produced those shows last night, which is why it was just after 8 p.m. when I left our old historic building. It was gratifying to watch the seniors rally the underclassmen and congratulate them on the semester and say all of the things I would normally say. It&#8217;s fun to see them slip effortless into those roles. <\/p>\n<p>I was curious how that would work this year because the interpersonal dynamics, by definition, are more restrained than normal. If anything, they&#8217;ve found ways to work around and beyond that and be better for it. <\/p>\n<p>We build broadcast pros and leaders around here. <\/p>\n<p>We had two productions running concurrently last night. The two above in Studio 7 and the late night show was being produced in Studio 5. It&#8217;ll be out later this week. And all of that means we&#8217;ll be shooting the last in-studio shows of the term tomorrow night. Watch this space for me bragging on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a weird time. I have a normal work schedule on Wednesdays. My weeks during the semester are normally split. I&#8217;m done at a respectable hour on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are long, but these other days I feel like a normal person. 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