Wednesday, March 18, 2009

MACUL

I am here at the MACUL Conference (3/18-20/09). This post is to provide those who attended or are have interest the presentation, "Apps For Administrators: Tools to Support SIP...and More" that Kristi and I are did on 3/19/09. You will be able to go to my Google Site and click the presentation attachment of the slide show if you click the link below. Much of the presentation was demonstration of the applications mentions from web tools so what you will see is what was discussed, but the actual demonstration will not be in the slide presentation. Please feel free to contact me through the comment feature of this blog.
Click here to see the presentation.

For those who were in the session, please use the link below to complete a survey about the session. It will require a password that will be provided to you at the session.
Click Here to take survey



Starting To See The Change

It seems like the vote on the bond proposal was a long time ago. I guess it depends on how you look at it. It was almost a year and a half ago. I knew when the proposal passed that there would be the reality of the long, long process of moving from design, to bidding, to actually seeing the new construction and renovations. I pulled in at 6:30 this morning and arriving at the same time was a large truck, probably here for the demolition. All morning it has sounded like a truck stop out my window. Those are great sounds to hear, though. That means all of the planning, drawing, changing, and bidding work that goes on behind the scenes is done, and we will now start to see physical evidence of the change. We have been able to see a few signs of change with the demolition of the football stands and the construction of the new sports complex. However, we aren't able to use those facilities yet, and they are a ways away from where we work every day. I know that we will have some inconvenience through this construction, but it should be awesome when we are done. It is a great time to be a Blue Jay!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

What Do You Think About?



When you have the time to think and plan about things other than school or work, about what do you get excited? For me, it is travel. Kristi and I have taken a cruise five of the last six years. We took our first with the prompting of our brother-in-law whose boss's wife is a travel agent who specializes in cruising. Well, after that first one, we were hooked. Since that first Eastern Caribbean cruise, we have done the Western Caribbean, Hawaii, Southern Caribbean, and Mexico. We just finished booking our sixth cruise. We are going back to the Caribbean, but are hitting a couple of new places. I know that I have said before how much I like to travel. Kristi and I have considered how we can incorporate travel into a post retirement job. We will be doing more traveling than just the cruise. The cruise is just for us this year. We have taken the kids on one cruise because the entire family was going, but we want to wait until the kids are a little more independent before we take them again. We are working on a Route 66 road trip out to the Grand Canyon with them for this summer. I hope you have time to think and plan for some special times that don't have anything to do with school or your work!