{"id":404,"date":"2013-04-29T15:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=404"},"modified":"2013-04-29T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:13:21","slug":"oh-thats-why-its-so-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/04\/29\/oh-thats-why-its-so-similar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so similar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend didn\u2019t start off too well \u2013 it sort of struck me as odd that TPA#3 would be so similar to TPA#2.\u00a0 At least for the first quarter of the write-up, which I had done on Thursday, they were identical.\u00a0 I even asked my teacher if it was considered bad form to copy much of the information from TPA#2 to TPA#3.\u00a0 I decided to go to the official California teacher website and look at an original TPA#3 form.\u00a0 Good thing I did!\u00a0 It turned out that I had copied the TPA#2 from the website and had labeled it TPA#3.\u00a0 I copied TPA#3 and began the laborious transfer of data from my \u201cfake\u201d TPA#3 form to the real TPA#3 form.\u00a0 It took all morning.\u00a0 Fortunately, I was able to use about 80% of what I had done.\u00a0 If I had gone any further on Thursday, it would have been bad news because only the first section had any meaningful crossover.\u00a0 Good thing I had subb\u2019d on Friday!<\/p>\n<p>Right around lunch, I spent some time with my (sick) wife showing her how to work the new technology I had purchased and the Netflix account.\u00a0 Later, I discovered that a new Social Studies position had opened up in Mt. View, so I applied.\u00a0 My wife and I went to a nice Chinese dinner before picking up the kids at their all day youth event.\u00a0 When the kids got home, I showed them how to work the new Netflix account.\u00a0 And that was pretty much my Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, it was just me and the kids at church.\u00a0 My wife was still sick and unable to talk.\u00a0 Our new pastor absolutely hit it out of the park \u2013 great sermon and great Bible Study!\u00a0 After church was over, I worked on the \u201creal\u201d TPA#3 until around six, then played tennis with my son and then we went grocery shopping.\u00a0 My daughter has started watching Being Human from episode #1 (me too!).\u00a0 I recently turned her on to the show and she loved it.\u00a0 My son has started watching Walking Dead and Breaking Bad \u2013 two friend recommendations for TV series.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t had a chance to watch more than one episode of Breaking Bad with him.\u00a0 Maybe when I\u2019m done typing, I\u2019ll be able to.\u00a0 I have also reserved Battlestar Galactica and the original Star Trek for my son because I think he will enjoy those series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend didn\u2019t start off too well \u2013 it sort of struck me as odd that TPA#3 would be so similar to TPA#2.\u00a0 At least for the first quarter of the write-up, which I had done on Thursday, they were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2013\/04\/29\/oh-thats-why-its-so-similar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}