Sparkly Reminiscence

Similar designs have appeared on my screen before. This time I could not resist the urge to render. Today's Gratitude Item: That 2016 has been a really good year for…

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Dusk Decking

Reminded me of wooden planks that are commonly used for decking. Today's Gratitude Item: Surviving a 'cover' where brownies were made (it was a Food Tech class). Things went much…

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Check Patch

Took a while to find colours that 'worked'. That's pretty much the story of my life. Today's Gratitude Item: Knowing what recursion is. It turns out that this concept becomes…

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Many Moons

This one did not turn out quite as well as hoped. The fact that the image is slightly skew means that looking at it for any length of time can…

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Star Born

This one turned out better than expected which was a lovely surprise. Today's Gratitude Item: Getting an increased travel subsidy for an upcoming visit to Christchurch. Air fares were more…

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Escalator Waves

The pattern reminded me of the 'tread' of an escalator. Hence the name. Today's Gratitude Item: Managing to do my share of junior Mathematics exam marking in record time. Unfortunately…

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Falling Apart

Ever feel as if 'life' is taking small bits of your soul? Does it look like this? Today's Gratitude Item: Finally completing a redesign of one of the sites that…

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Do it!

This one is not an official rule in my class. It came close but one of my students plagiarised and then quoted this 'rule' as an excuse. So it got…

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Rule #8

This could be good advice for life in general. Today's Gratitude Item: Being on holiday! For the first time this year I'm not worrying about having to urgently create resources…

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Rule #4

This one applies to both essay writing and creating program code. Today's Gratitude Item: An unexpected 'thank you' which involved more than nice words :)

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