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Good night Tiger

This is not the way I wanted to return to blogging, but I just needed to get these things so I can remember them later.
Back around March 22, Julie & I started fostering a 13 year old cat named Tiger for some friends of ours.  They had to move because his job was transferred to [...]

June 3, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Conference recap, part 0

The 2009 NLA/NEMA conference is finished and now all that’s left to do is to finish the paperwork.  To help me sort my thoughts, I’m going write a bunch of posts on it throughout the week, starting Monday. After a year of planning and working on it, I think I deserve to take a weekend [...]

October 31, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Feeling strangely human

So you’ve guessed things have been crazy for me this year.  I’ll admit, I spread myself too thin.  Luckily things are starting to calm down.  My todo list has things going off it more often than things going on it, I’m finishing off a term as secretary for the SELS board, the MWNE program is [...]

June 30, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Bad News and Good News

If I hadn’t experienced this, I would have thought this was a script from a sitcom.  But it happened, and I’m flabbergasted.
Tuesday morning, my wife Julie went into work and was informed that she will no longer be working there; the details of why are irrelevant to this story. I got the call at work [...]

May 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Happy new year!

Just a quick note to wish all of you a happy new year!

January 1, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Plans for next month

It seems I’ve gotten into the habit of only blogging one day a month here. I hope to change that next month - but probably not until after the 16th. I’ll be away from work starting that day until Jan 12. I’m finally taking an extended vacation, surrounding the usual campus closure [...]

December 1, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

As the leaves change, so does my life

For once we get to see the leaves change color here in Nebraska, instead of having them just fall off because of early snow or ice. Like the leaves changing, my life changed color over this past month, redefining my roles in my professional life. One change was quite unexpected as well.
As I mentioned [...]

October 31, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

A single-track mind

I was thinking recently about my music listening behaviors after reading that some bands want to pull their songs from iTunes, as they claim they are losing money. They claim that iTunes & downloadable music stores like it are changing people’s listening habits by emphasizing the single song instead of the full album.
To tell [...]

September 26, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

The wife’s wild week

Julie’s Wreck 01, originally uploaded by Scott Childers.
This past week was a wild one for my wife. Monday afternoon she was running some errands, getting ready for her upcoming foot surgery, when she was hit by a car that pulled out in front of her. She went the hospital in the ambulance and [...]

August 24, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

To Portland and Back Again

Last week I made a trip to Portland, OR to present a session on relevance ranking at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. It was a couple of long days for me, but good days.
First, my flight from Lincoln to Denver was delayed for 3 hours, because of problems with [...]

July 22, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments