Day 78 - the return of the Focus

Day 78 - Monday - Dress Rehearsal and the return of the Focus

Seems like its either feast of famine at the moment.  After a relatively easy weekend (except for the flood!) today there is much to do.

It's finally time for my live dress rehearsal for my virtual class, where I have to "perform" for two of the lead instructors.  This is set for noon but my boss has scheduled an interactive teaching session for 10am so I head straight for the HRB office after breakfast.  The first session goes well.  With only 3 of us in the audience it becomes a highly personal learning experience and I even get a couple of new skills I can use in the upcoming DR.

The big event is a success.  I get some immediate coaching as I go through the presentation and in the feedback at the end the lead instructor tells me if she hadn't known I was a first year Virtual Instructor she would never have guessed!  I'm on a high for the rest of the day.

Vicky picks me up after telling me on the phone that our leak problems are fixed.  She spoke with our neighbor as I had suggested, and Betty put her on to one of the security people, who came in and taped a waterproof tarp over the leaking air conditioner.  That ought to hold it until we get it fixed.  The insurance company and the shop are still going back and forth on that one.

Meanwhile, our car is finally ready for pickup so we drive the rental car over to Spearfish, pick up the (for once clean) Focus.  A delicious beet and salmon salad, eaten outside, makes for a healthy dinner until we "spoil" it with another trip to Leone's for ice cream.  The flavors this time (horchata for one) are a little disappointing, but the product still melts in your  mouth.  (Come to think of it, all ice cream melts in your mouth - but you know what I mean!).

We return to Gillette in tandem, both having to deal with driving into the setting sun for the first part of the trip.  But we DID get a lot done today.  And I've taken another step towards being ready to teach virtually.

The cats ignored my class and slept through our absence, but we get the usual "You have starving cats and need to do something about it NOW" welcome home.