FMBP - now with more bees

Welcome to a Friday Morning Bullet Post, courtesy of the spring term.

• We are nearly to the end of the spring semester and the workload has increased markedly around chez trek. My programming students took their final yesterday and so I now have well over 50 programs to compile run and evaluate.



• I received an email approximately one hour after the end of the exam:
  
  From: Somewhat Panicky Student
  To: professor trek
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  Could you please let me know what my final average and the test grade is when you grade my final? Thank you!



• No, I haven't replied, yet.



• I'm battling against being buried in bytes.



• Alliteration. Gotta love it.



• For a bit more "b" alliteration, I've been busy bundling bunches of Box Tops for Education for the school.



• At the grocery store yesterday, I made sure to buy the head of lettuce with the Green Giant logo on it specifically because it had a Box Top on it.



• You see, it doesn't look like are going to make goal this year.



• We just missed it last year, too.



• Just trying to do my part.



• Bug alert this week: a bee snuck into the house.



• Sucked it up in the Dust Buster.



• Not a powerful unit: bee survived and I released it outside.



• Planning to order one of these: none of these.



• Bugs won't stand a chance against that much horsepower.



• Worked on some socks for Neatnik last night.



• Second evening spent on sock knitting while Neatnik watched The Princess Diaries.



• The first one was St. John in Exileon Easter Sunday.



• See previous bullets regarding end of the semester.



• John in Exile is an awesome movie, by the way. A one-man play starring Dean Jones.



• Yes, I am fully aware that he was the star of the Herbie the Love Bugmovies. Forget all of that: he's fabulous as St John.



• Wanted to celebrate the ending of the semester by going away for the weekend.



• Kind of a last-minute decision.



• Everyone else had the same idea at least two weeks ago and there are no hotels in any of the places I thought we'd like to visit this weekend.



• Apparently Mother's Day weekend is a big travel weekend.



• Who knew?



• Oh, well, we'll go away another weekend.



• Are you planning to go out to eat to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday?



• We aren't. If we'd been able to find a place to go for the weekend, we still would have been home for dinner on Sunday in any event.



• We protest Mother's Day brunch, lunch, and dinner offerings at restaurants.



• Too many bad experiences in past years: poor service, undercooked food, overcooked food, kids running wild, rushed seating, crowded dining rooms.



• I figure we'll slap a steak on the grill.

How are you planning to celebrate moms this weekend? Whatever you do, I hope you enjoy yourself while you do it!