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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Continuing my tale from yesterday, which in my haste I even forgot to mention would be cut in the middle, I had to handle the mechanics lab class yesterday, even though I also had another class at the same time.

I knew my students would understand, and that we could schedule a make up session anytime. Besides, most of the hours would be spent at their sports fest opening anyway, which thankfully they did not request to be an alternative class.

What I didn't expect was that the mechanics lab class, composed of mostly communication arts freshmen, would also decide to forgo the class (even though it started an hour before the sports fest would open) for the ceremonies, even though I also prepared the quickest experiment for them, that of uniform acceleration, which now uses an air track for less friction. This means that the class will now have to schedule two make up sessions (including the time they boycotted their previous teacher due to an infraction in the lecture class that the technician knew nothing about) as a consequence for their insolence.

The technician, in fact, was surprised that I was introducing to him a THIRD teacher who would be handling the same class since the start of the term.

The first one, the husband of my former co-teacher, was eventually assigned more advanced subjects when the need arose – and loomed.

Speaking of the lab, we now have a new locally fabricated set up for mechanical energy that uses the threaded ball and the blade. But the last time they used it, they only swung slotted weight discs that weren't “aerodynamic”, and the blade was positioned too low
(close to the table) and thus still presented a cutting hazard to the students who could not properly see where they were placing their fingers.

It also uses halved razor blades instead of hand-held cutter blades, the first of which almost disappears into the slot, and thus could cut without warning.

So I recommended drilling holes in the copper balls we have, and cutting out plastic V's for the blade to safely cut the wire.

Session 1395 gives expression by not showing up. Class dismissed.