During the Fall 2011 semester, at the invitation of John Gehner (a former Urbana Free librarian), students from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science course “Introduction to Networked Systems” which I teach worked with the librarians at The Urbana Free Library to develop a redesign of the computer lab. After John left, I… Continue reading Conversations about space at The Urbana Free Library

We took ski lessons from Frank C. while at Copper. Here’s a few lessons we learned from him as he tried to help us ski with “Elegant Power” down the steeps. This is mostly so that I can remember next year when we come back to ski again, but if anyone else benefits, yay! 🙂… Continue reading Lessons we learned from Frank

Oh, what a spring it’s been!  Besides the historically warm spring temperatures that rushed spring gardening, we’ve had some milestones this year… April 30: Joey successfully completes his Eagle Board of Review May 12: Eric’s Southern Illinois University Commencement (he didn’t attend, but did get his diploma) May 12: Joey’s 18th Birthday May 20: Open… Continue reading Our Spring of Glorious Chaos