Talk about one hell of a shock – it’s been announced that
ProseBox is being shut down. We have
until April 15th to download/export/save our diaries, and then the
website is going dark. It’s like
OpenDiary all over again. I’ve noticed
that PB has been having a lot of issues lately, but I never thought it would
close its doors on us. There are a
number of people clamoring to take over to keep it running. I just hope SimpleMind doesn’t pull a Bruce
(diary master of OpenDiary) move, and refuse all help.
A number of people have returned to OpenDiary when it
started back up this year…but I cannot. The
only way I can describe Bruce is as a sadist asshole…so much mental/emotional
abuse and manipulation. I just cannot go
back to that. And to HAVE to pay to use
his site now? Yeah, no thanks. I did go take a peak, and it’s still glitchy
as hell, slow as molasses, and pretty damn plain to be honest. I’m not paying for that shit again.
So now the question becomes, if PB DOES shut down…where will
I go? I have my backup blog here on
Blogger. But I don’t care for the lay
out…and there is ZERO community there.
Maybe I’ll return to written journals? But I do like the interaction I get here
(most of the time) on my posts and I know I will certainly miss that.
In the meantime, I guess I’ll work on downloading my diary
from here and see where the bulk of my buddies migrate to.
We had Emily H. out on our campus today as a sub. I adore her.
She’s one of those who has no problem seeing what needs to be done and
just doing it. I got her feedback on my
Sub Binder I’ve put together (it was talked about briefly at a staff meeting,
and I took notes on what the subs would like to see in such binders). Apparently, I am the only one who’s done
that. ::shakes her head:: Emily and I are from the “old guard” time,
the time when our after school program was more Stand Alone than enfolded into
the district, and we are definitely seeing a lot of this “eh, just wait and see”
type mentality on a number of issues with the program now.
It was nice to sit and really discuss not only the problems
we see in our program, but ways it could be easily fixed. And Emily has a very logical head in these
things, and has the added perspective of seeing what’s going on at the other
campuses as well.
Emily asked if it was ok if she emailed the supervisors,
praising my Sub Binder. It was nice for
her to ask beforehand, as those types of praises usually turn into “Oh hey, why
don’t you lead one of our staff meetings over it” offers from the bosses. ::chuckles::
And we all know how much I love getting up and presenting things in
front of large groups of people. But
hell, man, this is stuff they NEED to know and it’s crazy easy to just slap
some things together. It took me less
than a week to get the bulk of it done. I
just need to add in our various Emergency Procedures and a map of the school
and it’s done. Though, Emily did also
recommend maybe a little sheet for the subs to fill out about any
concerns/issues they saw on the campus that day, or things they wanted to
praise; and possibly a few extra Sub Time Sheets in case they need a copy. Which, those would be crazy easy to do and
add in.
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