Gone 75% of last 32 days

August 14th, 2010

Today I returned from the last of my summer travels. I was only home for 8 of the past 32 nights. Here’s a picture of where I went:

July 13-16: Orlando for Blackboard Conference
July 16-22: Boston for Campus Technology Conference (after 3 days of sight-seeing)
July 22-29: Family Reunion a John Brown University
July 29-Aug 4: Home for a couple days
Aug 4-10: Minneapolis and Lake Vermillion – houseboat trip
Aug 10-11: Home
Aug 12-14: Las Vegas (driving)

That’s eight flights plus four road trips of about four hours each way.

Blog is Five Years Old

August 3rd, 2010

I started this blog in July 2005, a little over five years ago. It looks like I have about 500 165 posts/pages, so I’ve been averaging about one hundred thirty-three per year.

(My friend Dave pointed out that it didn’t seem like he had read that many posts. Sure enough, I counted wrong.)

When You Can’t Afford the Best

August 3rd, 2010

When you can’t afford alpha-level security, and second-best is good enough:

Beta Security sign

Pink

July 30th, 2010

Girls: does your brother keep stealing your soccer ball? Is he always borrowing it without asking? Just get this pink one, then you won’t ever have to worry about him using it.

Pink Soccer Ball