Lieutenant Dan!

1. There's a man who has been coming to my computer classes.... I have no idea what his actual name is, but I think of Lieutenant Dan from Forrest Gump every time I see him. I'm not 100% sure why, as I don't think he's like Lt. Dan at all. He just has long shaggy hair... and always wears camo pants and army boots.

Anyway, this guy can talk your head off, mostly about making money on eBay. This would be the theory of making money on eBay, though, as he doesn't know how to use it. He keeps coming to the computer classes in hopes that I will somehow teach eBay tricks or something. I told him to come to the Internet class, but aside from that, I'd show him some books we have about eBay.

I guess Lt. Dan would not be interested in eBay, as it did not exist at any point in the timeline of Forrest Gump. Ebay was founded the year after that movie came out.

2. I have evaluation forms for my classes that I hand out at the end of every class. Honestly, I get rather useless feedback from them, but I keep up with them just the same. Anywho, one of the questions is, "Is there something you didn't learn that you wanted to learn? If yes, what?" One of the answers from yesterday's class: "To learn how to check spelling or grammar" (and yes, it was spelled correctly and everything). That would be a lovely suggestion... if it weren't for the fact that we definitely DID talk about right-clicking on those squiggly lines. Granted, it was a brief discussion, and we didn't talk about the full spelling & grammar check, but still.... It seems somebody failed to pay attention.