Enjoy, you earned it.
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So, what’s next? 
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Congrats @Navynuke99 - what an interesting semester I’m sure. I became a teacher this year by default. Thankfully, I’m capable of doing 4th grade math. Please let this pandemic be over before statistics and trig…
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@BeachAV8R, The underground house video is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Thanks!
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I know right…I see a video that is 20 minutes long I’m like “I’m never gonna watch that…” 21 minutes later I’m still eating popcorn and wondering what else that guy has done…
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Four more half-time semesters, and this summer is spent studying for the PE Exam. But that starts next week. For now:
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My nightmare is a letter from the university stating that one of my professors was not accredited and therefore the class does not count and therefore my degree is not valid. 
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The two easiest types of higher math! One is just understanding curves without calculus, the other is just fun with the unit circle (just ignore when everyone keeps drawing triangles, plot it all on a circle and it all makes sense).
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Ugh. The only way I got through that class in undergrad was dating a grad student majoring in stats. I will say, Khan Academy and Wolfram Alpha will be your friends.
As for trig, that is pure fun, because it’s pure math that you can manipulate and transpose.
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so when can we see the build vid… 
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Like calculating the FOV that your monitor occupies so you can match the setting in game!
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Ooh, that’s a great idea! Why didn’t I think of that earlier?!
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And you can do ‘real’ stuff with it
Yep! I did the exact same thing. The wife wasn’t thrilled about it but I was like “Hey! Get off my back! I need the grade!” 
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We’re moving some guys around the office to enhance social distancing so we can bring more staff back in to our office in the coming week or two. Naturally, one of the data ports in the unused office that we need to put into use was err…defective. Wire #7 was a nogo. I re-punched down the wall jack to start just to be sure it was OK and no change so back to the rack I went. I was hoping it wasn’t a mid-line break as I won’t be able to tear this one out of the wall within reason. So here is a “behind the scenes” of my previous shot. The original installation was done quite well by comparison it seems, although I wish it was all CAT6 (it is CAT5e) and tidier.
Connection #19 there was the culprit, with a severed white-brown wire right at the panel, it appears whomever did it originally had the punch-down blade backwards and instead of clipping the excess wire off, severed the wire instead. I was able to gently move the other wires (20 onward) out of the way carefully (they are not in use anyway) and re-punch it to find now wire #4 failed - but that was just the wire not fully seated so another hit solved that. So the fixed connection is below, had to pull a bit extra insulation off to make it easy to work with in a tight spot.
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Boss asked me to work the weekend. Fine. Easier, as my wife is available to mind the kids. Just the Saturday? No problemo. What kind of job? Oh, we’re redoing a preschool playground? For kids 0 - 4. Allright. Yeah if you think we can pull it off in one day I’m game. Oh they’re opening after the Corona lockdo2n on monday. Yeah that’s quite a hard deadline then, better not leave the slide half unbuilt.
Now my boss, I love the guy. Crawl through hell for him. So I did. Saturday we worked 0830 to 1930. It was a hot, hard sunny day. Job was not finished. Bossman got a migraine for his effort. Sunday I worked 1000 - 2030. Sans boss. I finished the playground and the lady who owns the place was over the moon with my work.
And yeah I’m proud too. We took out about 24 square metres of plastic fake grass and the tiles that they left underneath. I rebuilt and enlarged the sandbox. We built a play hill with integral slide. We reused the tiles to build a lovely planter, I put in strawberries and kitchen herbs that have distinct smells and feel and are very hardy. I redid some tiling pathways, put grass matting (live grass!) on the hill and built a swing. Bossman built a huge tipi from four bamboo sticks and a large piece of felt cloth that came from under another jobs fake grass. Tomorrow the kids are going to be amazed.
It is ducking glorious. I am completely spent but proud of my work, feel like a hero who fought and won a hard battle.
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Well Done! I’m sure the kids will love it. 
OK, I’m just going to go-ahead and post this as I’m sure we were all thinking about it. Great.
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