Wow! How time really flies! And, you don't have to be having fun either.

At long last, my wife's online courses at Pima Community College, are over. I spent countless hours helping her through writing all sorts of things from discussion comments to a research paper on barriers to communications. 

But now it's over and she is in line to collect her certificate with a perfect 4.0 GPA! I knew she could do it, as long as she could write in Chinese, translate via Google, and massage using Grammarly Advanced. The latter may not be quite as advanced as they claim. Any sentence beginning with "this" or "that" is always flagged as lacking a clear target. Nearly any two sequential sentences are possible targets for a suggestion to 'join into one sentence using "and" which turns out to be horrible English.Then, there are the suggestions to make changes that radically alter the meaning of the text. Only very rarely are the suggestions useful. But Grammarly excels at finding small errors that are easily overlooked. For that, it's worth the cost.

I used to report the worst of the errors to Grammarly who would reply that the matter had been forwarded to the Editors for their review. I never received any response and the errors have always remained. Finally, a customer rep told me nobody ever receives a response and it is unknown what, if anything, the Editors do with such input. So I quit reporting errors because it's time-consuming.

Interspersed with tutoring, I've been frantically applying for jobs; if only I knew what category of jobs I want to pursue. One big area is getting back to being a systems programmer on big IBM Mainframes. The second category is to become a cybersecurity guru an in that vein, I'm taking a Challenge course at Udacity that could lead to a scholarship for the full cybersecurity nanodegree. Along side that I'm working my way through a bunch of free IBM Education courses to refresh and update my IBM Mainframe skills. That, at least, is proving to be fun. I've had some fun with Udacity which provided a PowerScript which was supposed to install the Virtual Machine they use for teaching but on one's personal Azure account. The instructions were minimal and nobody seemed able to get the script to run. They referred me to their help team in India who also seemed unable to solve the problem. Eventually I solved it myself and now I have a tiny VM with Windows 10 sitting on my Azure account. The underlying machine does not support Windows 11 and I am yet to explore fixing that.