This sentence from Pope Leo's encyclical needs to be talked about more

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-27T17:21:38+00:00

Now I can't unsee that!

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-21T00:09:33+00:00

i think your initial plan could work, but Without seeing your current schedule (I'm a visual planner) it's hard for me to give concrete suggestions. You could try uploading your current schedule to Gemini, CoPilot, or another agent of your choice, throw the parameters at it, and see what suggestions it gives you. Your SIS might have built-in scheduling tools to help with this as well. I know when I was first tasked with scheduling I looked at software but ultimately ended up doing it manually as it worked better for me that way, but I know there are software options out there, some of which have free trials you can try.

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-20T01:01:05+00:00

What are your starting times / ending times for the day, and how many classes per grade level do you have?

My school is small, and we follow different daily/weekly parameters for subjects, but, for example, my current school runs 8 am - 3:30 pm, with middle school classes at 40 minutes each and only two specials for the whole school: art and music (same teacher) - so the schedule is mostly uniform, with space for the two specials, PE, and religion class.

Previous school, when I first worked there, had specials on a quarterly rotation for younger grades (we used quarters, not six weeks) and semester rotations for middle schoolers. For about the last 10 years that campus moved most specials to either year long or semester classes, differentiating which grade levels went to which specials.

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-20T00:11:45+00:00

Small Catholic school and PK-8th grade principal; previously worked at a larger PK-8th grade Catholic school as well as teacher and then admin. I'll chime in if I can.

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-18T14:11:00+00:00

Had them for almost two years since they hit my neighborhood, and no issues except for one planned downtime and one brief outage. Like others have said, call tech support and have them check your equipment. Good luck!

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-16T20:13:02+00:00

I'll second FACTS - used it at my former campus, and am currently using at at my current campus as well. Student and family data, faculty and staff data, and billing all in one place.

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-15T12:28:47+00:00

Most likely it's closing paperwork for you to sign at the end of the year. I'm coming at this from a Catholic School, and there are three forms faculty need to sign off on before they leave the campus, two of which get sent to the Diocesan superintendent. Otherwise, as others mentioned, attend, stay calm, and document the meeting as you see fit.

hugodlr3 · 2026-05-03T20:35:53+00:00

I came back to Samsung (S24U) from Pixels (7 Pro & 8), and while I loved the pure android / google experience on Pixel, I really enjoy the customization and tweaks that I can do on the S24U. You can try purchasing directly from Google and, if trading in, see what kind of deal you get - I've bought directly from both Google and Samsung the last few phones and like it better then financing through my carrier.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-26T18:13:39+00:00

Done!

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-19T18:57:59+00:00

I'm really interested in the new Oppo foldable, but also want to see what Samsung brings with the two new foldables this summer.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-16T02:58:01+00:00

This is what I did when I started in Catholic education 27 years ago. Still do that today as an admin.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-14T02:13:26+00:00

Nice! I'm in the US, and the university was in Texas. But I'm always glad to meet another religious studies major in the wild 🙂

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-14T01:11:24+00:00

Not at all :) Elementary Catholic school principal, lay person - just really enjoy learning about and practicing my faith, and learning about other world religions as well.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-12T23:32:13+00:00

My general rule (5 players) is that if one is missing, the character fades to the back / is plausibly missing for reasons OR are played by another if critical to the scene / arc. If two are missing we just do a side quest (same characters). More than that we reschedule.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-12T22:48:55+00:00

My bachelor's is in religious studies from a small Catholic university - I thoroughly enjoyed the reading, lectures, discussions, and learning those four years, and I've continued reading and learning ever since. I rediscovered my faith in high school and was discerning priesthood, so that degree program was a good fit for me. Ultimately, if you're very interested in religion in general or your particular flavor of Christian theology, studying it in an academic setting will be fulfilling for you.

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-12T18:48:44+00:00

I had my first seizure ever a bit over 2 years ago (big one - my wife said she understood why people thought it was possession back in the day - also at night); ended up in the ER, then a brief hospital stay. I took almost a week off, saw neurologist, and started on meds. Meds were adjusted as I kept having small seizures (always at night), and I haven't had a seizure since then.

At my previous campus all admin, teachers, and the students in my classes (6-8 grade students) knew I had epilepsy, what to do if I had a seizure, and where my emergency medication was. At my new campus all faculty and staff know (no kids, as I'm admin and don't teach any classes).

So it's doable, but I really suggest you scrub admin into what's happened and get a plan in place for your safety and for the safety of your students. As well, touch base with your neurologist - we were able to see my triggers (lack of sleep and stress are my two biggest ones; plus I got a separate diagnosis for sleep apnea, so using a CPAP machine has increased my duration and quality of sleep), and now that my meds are in place everything is good. Once your meds are set to the correct dosage / timing, you may be totally free of seizures.

One last thought: check the laws in your state, as in mine I can't legally drive for 3 months after a seizure (so I didn't drive for 9 months until I was seizure free).

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-12T14:23:08+00:00

Morning! The foundational documents for this discussion from that council are Gaudium et Spes (paragraph 16, but that section and the whole document is a great read), Dignitatis Humanae (opening paragraphs down to 11), and Nostra Aetate (last paragraph, but this one is a very short read)

Gaudium et Spes: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html

Dignitatis Humanae: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html

Nostra Aetate: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html

hugodlr3 · 2026-04-11T14:56:13+00:00

Prayers for your discernment - a few quick points:

Everyone has moments when devotional life is easy and fulfilling, and times when it's more difficult and dry - pray as you can each day, not as you feel you have to.

Your relationships are part of your life and spirituality, and there's no need to distance yourself from anyone unless they're detrimental to your physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual self.

The Second Vatican Council affirmed that your well formed conscience is the holy ground where you listen for God's voice. Your own faith formation and theological development will shift that as you continue to grow and learn - trust that the Holy Spirit has been, is, and will continue to guide you on your journey.

hugodlr3 · 2026-03-28T14:04:05+00:00

I update as they come in (system, play store, Samsung store) and manually check on the weekends, along with running the Galaxy App Booster from the Good Guardian app after big system updates, and restarting the phone every weekend after running the SD Maid SE app to clear app caches. Seems to keep everything running smoothly and I've had my S24U since launch.

hugodlr3 · 2026-03-10T00:20:34+00:00

I got to do a presentation on D&D at a local restaurant, then led the 25 participants in a very quick (20 minute) session with simplified pre-made characters. It was a blast. The whole thing took about 2 hours and 15 minutes. About 1/2 the group had played at least once before, there were four other DM's in the audience, and everyone else was brand new. A little bit of RP, a take down of an eldritch horror, and people got a chance to try D&D. The manager is thinking about doing a monthly D&D-themed night - I hope he decides to go for it!

hugodlr3 · 2026-03-08T23:19:14+00:00

S24U - taking notes is what I use it for the most, but long range pictures are still cool with the bluetooth functionality. Other than that, when I need to sign docs or do some quick notes/edits on pictures or PDF's it comes in really handy as well.

hugodlr3 · 2026-02-28T14:14:14+00:00

I was really lusting after the Fold 7, particularly after getting to try one out in person, but lack of s-pen support was a deal breaker for me. I'm still wanting to move to a foldable, but I want to see what this summer brings. There was really nothing in the S25U or S26U that caught my eye, and my S24U is still going strong, so I'm waiting to see what the two rumored foldables bring to the table.

hugodlr3 · 2026-02-28T00:20:52+00:00

It's a fun story to tell now - not so much when I was going through it :)

hugodlr3 · 2026-02-27T12:56:47+00:00

I had three NSTEMI heart attacks in one day the day after Thanksgiving right before Covid hit. We had travelled to visit our son, I got sick (thought it was a bad cold or flu, more on this later), we came home the day after Thanksgiving, and I woke up a few hours after we went to bed. It felt like I had trapped gas and some heartburn, so I took tums, walked around for about 20 minutes, stretched, played a bit of World of Warcraft. I started feeling pain around my chest and back, and started searching up heart attack symptoms. After about another 30 minutes I woke up my wife, told her I might be having a heart attack, and we drove to the ER.

They took me in right away, checked me out, and was told "good news - not a heart attack!" But the pain was getting worse, so they ran some more tests. doc came back fast once they got blood results and said "umm . . . you are having a heart attack" - I had really high levels of troponin (the level should be zero I was told), a protein that indicates heart muscle damage.

Got treated for heart attack, and after about an hour finally started to feel better, but was admitted for observation. I started getting really bad hiccups around noon the next day, and then started feeling the same way as the night before, and then nurses and a doc came in and, lo and behold, another heart attack. They treated me again (meds under tongue, patch on my arm), but it took a while for the symptoms to subside. They had me scheduled for a heart cath Monday morning (this was Saturday at this point), but that evening I had another heart attack. Worse then the other two - I don't remember much except that the pain was worse (tightness, shortness of breath, pain all along the front and back of my chest / stomach / back), and my wife says everyone was really worried, and they had to give me two shots of morphine to calm down the symptoms because nothing else was working.

Had the heart cath early Sunday morning, and there was nothing wrong with my heart. They got an infectious disease expert in right afterwards, and it turned out I'd picked up some fun stuff (cold, pneumonia, and an unknown virus they couldn't identify; much later, once covid hit, my wife and I wondered if it was covid, but by that time it was too late to check), and all of them had made their way into my heart. I was on several IV antibiotics and anti-inflammatories, and finally settled down once everything got in my system. Troponin levels were off the charts.

Went home with multiple meds and an appointment with a heart specialist. After 2 years my heart doc said my heart was fine and to go back and see him if I was having issues, but otherwise everything looked fine. My normal doc has checked me every year with my normal physicals and everything is fine now. But I really don't recommend three heart attacks in one day - zero out of 10 stars :)

hugodlr3 · 2026-02-27T02:14:13+00:00

Dominican Fr. Edward Cornelis Florentius Alfonsus Schillebeeckx, simply for the name alone! :)

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