WOW!! Halfway there.....it is a good feeling, but also wondering can I get everything done in the time that remains?? I know I need to read more..I'm a book-aholic, I'm having a hard time reading the required stuff it just doesn't go in as easily as the fiction stuff does.
Alex- I think I will be coming down to Pitt early. Beth- Thanks for the great website!!
A friend is in from Thailand and it was hard to get anything done today. And now there is a BBQ tomorrow! I'm working on the reading, so I guess I'd better write some more here and then read myself to sleep!! 55555555 Well, not that the book is boring or anything. I have to take some notes so I'm ready for the paper, too.
We ran to camp Friday, to see if we could check what the menu would be for Soccer camp that my son will attend. He has an allergy to milk, he was very disheartened to see the menu, I don't think there is 1 day that he doesn't have to worry about the food that is being served. We have to settle what we will take for him to eat while he is there so that he doesn't go hungry. I think this has been the hardest thing for him in our move to the states, he can't eat anything without it being homemade by me or reading the label. Even if you bought it 2 weeks ago, you have to read the label because they may have changed the ingredients. Ok, off to read some more!! :)

This week's lecture was very interesting. It made me start thinking about how the cloud computing can be used for a variety of purposes and how that might help a library. Though it did make me realize there is so much out there that I don't know about in the computer world. I like the idea of using the Scopus search to automatically feed updates on a topic that I'm interested in. If I'm not mistaken we use the RSS feeds to update us on our classmates' blogs if their addresses have been put into the following section. It has made it easy to be able to check the feeds, too because they are on my blog page and also on the dashboard.
I wonder if I have run into Drupal without knowing it?? We use threaded discussions on the class DB. We are blogging here, could this be a Drupal application?
I don't know maybe I'm relaxing a bit or I don't feel as overwhelmed. I'm looking forward to the on campus weekend that is coming up. I'm not excited about the EXAM that I'll have for 2000. I guess it is time to get a move on! We have scouts tonight. Then I'll be up late reading. My son is tired of this routine. I think it maybe time to go to the cottage!! Fresh air, space to run, we'll need to get some supplies. Maybe even try fishing!!! 55555555 That should be entertaining!!! I'm a girl & don't know how to do these things!! It will be something to laugh about!!

Refreshed.....relaxed..... Not having to do the ePrints assignment was a relief. I was in a hurry to pack up as I was heading to a woman's conference and my son was going to scout camp, then to my brother's house for the weekend that some papers and books weren't taken, but it didn't matter the time at the conference was so jam packed that I didn't even get to visit with my best friend very much. She was working at the conference. The conference was great and it was just what I needed. I got some special treatment because of dietary needs. So nice to be taken care of!! :) My husband was a chef and took great care in preparing excellent meals, but that has changed. My son didn't have such a great weekend, but the joy of it was he was happy to see his mom!!! He knew I would take care of him. The family picnic was nice, but there was very little that we could eat, so we left there and found a grocery store to find some food that we could eat. My son ate the whole way home. I had packed some snacks and things for him when he went to camp for the weekend, but it wasn't enough.

I spent the last 2 days reading the required readings for 2000. Well I guess I'd better get back to the Koha project and some more readings. Work...work...work..until it is all done!!!
I'm getting slashdot news in my email. It has been great getting those headlines!!

Learning, learning, learning...... we are always learning. I have been frustrated with all of the NEW programs being thrown at me with little to no information about how they work or really what the expectation was. Though I'm disappointed about learning another new program, I can't say that I'm sad that the project was scrubbed!! I had thought I would try to get ahead and TRIED to work on the thing for a day with no results to show for it. Had I known it was having a bad day I would have chosen to do something that was more meaningful. The faster I run the more behind I get! or at least that's the way I feel. I would like to feel some success in all of this. I know it all ties together and I will be happy when it feels like it is coming together more.

Can you believe we got registration notices already? Wow! It feels like we just got started!! I guess that is good news. I guess I'd better get some reading done!! Have a great day!!!

I added my own slides to the slide show!! I was happy with those results. My handsome son! These are some of the activities that we did this year. He's done a lot. He spent the day at Scout camp & I was going to get ahead on school assignments, but my electronics were working against we!! Started with Blackberry having an issue, then the computer decided to join the fun, ePrints3 thought it would be fun to join the party, too!! I didn't get a think done trying to put out fires!! I finally had had enough of ePrints when I saw the note saying not to play with it , it wasn't playing nice!!! It won't hurt my feelings if it doesn't decide to work, then we don't have to do the assignment.
A little bit more information about the programs and the homework would be nice. I'm new to all of this and trying to pick up on the vocabulary, new software, and then try to use it all at once has been really hard. I'm really not used to feeling like this and it is super hard. I've done a Masters program before and it didn't feel like this. I'm trying to suck it up and keep going.

UGH!!! What a test!!! Then to make matters worse I started on the new assignment! I'm finding only websites. Is that right??

We've been back in the states for 1 year! Wow! My son got straight A's in school, but never had homework. Our school in Bangkok was academically more challenging. His picture was in the paper this week! The county does an Officer Phil safety presentation at the local schools in the spring and then has the students create drawings. The best one from each of the 16 schools is chosen, then the best of those is awarded the Grand prize! My son had the Grand prize!!! He got a savings bond, a sheriff's shirt, a gift card to buy a bike and bike helmet. Plus his drawing was framed with a blue ribbon! He's a local celebrity. People have been congratulating him all over town. My parents and some friends came for the presentation and after wards we went for breakfast.

I need some exercise.....I hear my running shoes calling me, well I only walk. I should try to find my son before it gets dark. Maybe I should feed him, too. I did feed him when we got home from church & then he disappeared. Oh, yeah...Mom was doing school again.
Have a great week!!

Zotero!!

Computer geek I am NOT!! Did I get it right??

One down, I think????

I did the lab.....it wasn't too bad, quite fun in comparison to the Zotero project. I sent it off, but I'm not sure if it got there. There was another assignment that had to be uploaded and it sent you a note that it was sent, that was nice. So I sit and wonder did it really get sent???

The lecture this week was interest, but the same issue keeps arising. Online students CAN"T HEAR the prof or students without a mic!!! It was distressing trying to get the message, but not being able to hear it.
I do appreciate the vdo person!! You are doing a GREAT job trying to get some of the sound that isn't mic'd. THANKS!!! I also appreciate the way you are trying to get what is on the board for the online students. Sometimes that's the only way to catch the whole message. THANKS again! Keep up the super work! You should get a bonus!