a busy family of six
shout out to whomever found my glove in the 501 building parking lot! Thanks a million!
Okay, it was only a matter of time before the kids realized that this new pet had play possibilities. This evening, they discovered that the Imaginext and Playmobile accessories actually fit on our bearded dragon. For Sparky’s sake, I hope that he continues to grow at a rapid rate and this sort of thing is short lived…. and I’m especially glad that the Barbie clothes have moved on!
New Year’s Eve landed us at the First Avenue for karaoke, games and lots of fun! Turns out that Todd even won a door prize, an xs schnapp’s t-shirt (perfect for me) and a golf visor (he doesn’t golf) but hey, it’s always fun to have the winning number! Our group included Troy and Cindy-congrats on their engagement, Hollie, Heidi, April and Chris, Michelle, Lance, and several others. We closed the place down, went back to Cindy’s, a trip to McDonald’s at 2:30 (never been so glad for all night drive-thru service) and home to bed around 3:00 a.m. It was a fun welcome to 2008!
I am really hoping to have some time to think about the convergence of a work/home blog. This of course is the personal side of things, though I feel that I’d really like to start to contribute on the work side as others are doing quite well on that front. I’ve been reading alot of articles as of late to prep for our Tech110 course that I’m going to be co-teaching with a faculty member from the Fine and Performing Arts College. He has some great ideas regarding module based learning. I too am interested in this concept though I feel even more compelled to embrace the social technologies that have been evolving for some time now. Combining these two agendas could prove to be quite the offering. I’m also going to make it a priority to start a podcast at UNL regarding technology happenings, education technology, and whatever else I see fit. My hope is to get anyone and everyone interested in these concepts on the agenda and do one every couple of weeks or at least one per month.
Happy Holidays early if I don’t get back to this thing before then. My hope is to segment a bit of time and try out some new releases of things, specifically MT4. I’ve been perusing the content at Penn State and the things they’ve been working on for a while. Their ETS Tech talk is quite interesting, they seem to be embracing the open source community in a major way. I hope to follow their lead and explore some of the things they’ve been able to implement on a very large scale.
Thanks to everyone who helped moved the piano! It was very painless, no problems, most logistics of getting things together before the move. After work, we all conglomerated at Ace Hardware as a central meeting place. I purchased the handy dandy ratchet straps to keep things tight. Craig and Tim decided to take a detour (not really, just forgot to tell us they had parked along way, so we thought they go lost). I picked up my pickup from home and some blankets. We proceeded to load it (which we did in 5 minutes), tied it down in another 10, drove to the destination (home), and unloaded in another 10.
Emily has been playing all morning, she is in heaven! Thanks again to Andrew, Craig, Tim, Sourabh, Arjun, and Amy (pizza delivery) who took their time to help. Hope you enjoyed the pizza. I’ll post tomorrow about the Belmont choral singer’s concert that we attended last week. Busy…busy…
Decided to try some different contacts last week, they were a bit rough going in but after I wore them a few days they seemed fine until yesterday. My eyes became inflamed (major red). Went to see the doc today, and she couldn’t determine whether it was conjunctivitis or inflammation due to the new contacts. Either way, same treatment. Then I started thinking maybe I should just go for Lasik, we’ve got quite a bit of funding left from med reimbursement, why not. Next week I’ll know more, not fully on board with it, but seemingly more and more interesting as the years go by. We’ll see if the price scares me off to another year.
Our curriculum request project seems to be leveling out. My goal is to complete this phase by the end of the semester. With gen ed coming, we will probably propose that the system manage the 1000+ courses that will be reviewed and updated to implemented the proposed objectives. Some of the processes will change, but nothing our system can’t handle. Time will tell, whether the current curriculum request system will truly be utilized or a manual process (and different committee or subcommittee) will be put in place to accommodate the one time sweep of courses into the new grouping.
Ok, I didn’t live up to my hope of posting every day this month, but with the help of my wife we’ve been able to keep an every other day post. Of course, I think it’s just my wife and I that read these stupid things, but I must say it is fun to write back and forth. It reminds me of that movie “You’ve got mail” with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. They pop each other notes (before IM) and they began a relationship inside the system that was absolutely different from their outside non-virtual relationship. Of course that’s not what I’m suggesting with us, but the whole idea of how each looked for what the other wrote the night before.
I attended a project management seminar today with many of the other IS project managers. It was well done for the first day, I look forward to learning more about how to juggle the many things that happen in projects. My goal is to clean up straggling projects by the end of the year and get some fresh new things happening, specifically with our core initiative projects. I would love to start a wiki of all the great things IS is doing internally. Seems as if over the past 18 months or so, our organization has maybe baby steps towards working together. Hats off to Jon Wilson for helping bring groups together and discussions forward as needed.
Enough work for the day, I’ve been working with caldav/webdav servers to figure out a solution to compliment Notes and the many other calendaring solutions on campus and at home. As for now, I’m a bit discouraged with the protocol, due to it’s client based orientation, as opposed to web based accessibility.
I’ve been thinking alot about giving the site an overhall, maybe archiving much of the house stuff to a home building area. I struggle whether I should break this off onto a work/home site to make it easier to manage posts, as well as more convenient. Could talk about work, fam, life, and whatever. Might post more often as well. My honey has been doing most of the posting as of late, but I think this month I’m going to try to make a post a day. Extraordinarily busy at work, with much deliberation regarding services we should offer, as well as what not. Busy time has come again, though I really love this time of year with the gorgeous fall color, Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings, etc. The season also comes with all sorts of business, between 8 nights a month in cub scouts, multiple gymnastic weekends, not to mention family transportation service, neighborhood association, and whatever else comes with a family of 6! Ah, isn’t life fun, until tomorrow.
One more year and she’ll officially be a teenager-eek! Last night, we hosted 8 girls overnight plus our own boys, bringing our grand total to ELEVEN kids! (Imagine the movie Cheaper by the Dozen) Our evening included pizza, decorating pillow cases, cake, presents, making furry flip-flops, Utube.com, lots of nail polish, pogo-stick contests, root beer floats, movies and of course staying up ALL NIGHT!
When Todd and I finally pried our weary selves out of bed around 7:00 a.m., most of the snacks in the house had been consumed and there were reports of many “stomach aches.” However, it didn’t stop them from devouring 2 dozen donuts for breakfast! My guess is that they’ll have quiet afternoons at home when they finally pass out! Overall, I think they had a blast. More party pics.
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