Life’s Apprentice

• Saw a bear near our house on the way home last night, was still there this morning. Looked like a youngling… #
• Fixed the satellite, turns out there was a bad splitter in the line. Bypassed it and everything came back on. One less worry… #
• Groovin’ to a little Elvis Costello – now playing “Chelsea” #
• “As I walk thru this wicked world, searching for a light in the darkness of insanity…” #
• Gruntled, gruntled, gruntled – there @JustinLitalien, how’s that? #
• Off to take the kids Trick or Treating in Sandwich. Enjoy the spooks! #

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• Well isn’t that swell. Dish Networks equipment has decided not to work this evening. No sat signal at all. Bother… #
• In that case, guess it’s time for hot chocolate and ginger snaps! #
• @georgygrrl – No, it’s pretty much stopped up this way. The wind has picked up but the stars are coming out. You? #
• @MtnLaurel – I’m curious, what did you have in mind regarding mashups? #
• Off to a tech enhanced classroom client consult with the Art Dept. #
• Working on a classroom tech project mgmt guide on our wiki – http://hellotxt.com/l/lCjr #
• Planning & development on classroom technology master plan. Plymouth has over 100 tech enhanced spaces. Mgmt is challenging! #
• Researching Smartboard configurations for Graphic Design classroom. They’re asking for SB w/ short-throw LCD, speakers and wireless… #
• Has spent all day working on classroom tech & has had no time to devote to his other two hats, academic tech and Blackboard/online ed. #

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• Odometer on my matrix hit 77777 last night atop Wentworth Hill in Sandwich. Just sharing… http://hellotxt.com/l/YtYI #
• Flurries! #
• Working the curriculum for a grad course I’ll teach this spring – Making Multimedia Meaningful and asking: What would you want to learn? #
• Sharing my initial brainstorm components on the CE5150 course – screenshot from Webspiration – http://hellotxt.com/l/Ud2f #
• Wishes there was a better way to allow viewing of Webspiration pages. #
• Flurries have started to come down heavy now. And they’re blowing around. I’m liking this! #
• The little snow squall has let up and I’m heading home. May have to tub it tonight! #

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• Love Chuck and it’s homage to the 80′s videogame culture! w00t! #
• w00t! Won my Fantasy Football match-up. Each of us had 2 players going into last night so it made it very exciting! #
• In a meeting with @TJL and @JustinLitalien – figuring out where we go from here… #
• Getting ready to visit Grad Studies to spec out a project to install a hard on/off switch with LED in observation/conference room. #
• Off to PTO meeting, then home. Guess the power is out, hope the propane was delivered, then at least the stove will work! #

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• The Unit! #
• Must. Find. Coffee… #
• Hates when vendors install in the wrong room! #
• Tested my skillz replacing an LCD projector bulb. Yeah, I still got it! Math lab folks should be very happy! Now to take off that hat… #
• Download your Flickr photos en masse with this app – http://hellotxt.com/l/f9FE #
• Senator Internet Tubes is found guilty on all 7 counts of making false statements on Senate financial docs. http://hellotxt.com/l/er0u #
• Off to Parent-Teacher conferences for my 8 and 11 year olds. #

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• Busy day – cleaning/clearing the yard, cutting back the garden, building a small patio near the hot tub. Just in time, here’s the rain! #
• Finally saw Iron Man tonight. Have to say it rocked! I liked Robert Downey Jr. as playboy Tony Stark. #
• Busy morning – had to clean a few trees off of our road this morning. Need to go back later and load them into the van for firewood! #
• Remember the Whazzup? commercial from Bud? Mamamusings has found them 8 years later – http://hellotxt.com/l/8ijs #
• Go Pats! #
• Phew! Got all my wood cut to size, done for the season! Now to split and stack. But first, the game! #
• Sweet reception and run for TD by Nate Washington (PIT) – just put up 12 points for my Fantasy Football team! #

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• Off to the Hot Tub! Time to unwind and focus on where to go from here… #

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• It’s Friday, that’s gotta mean something right? Right? #
• So the reported McCain supporter assault turns out to be a hoax? http://hellotxt.com/l/Vlwn #
• @matthewktabor , @skydaddy – Does make you wonder about the quality of our future as a race… #
• @wwhitlock – Will definitely keep the lad (and next year his brother) scouting. A wonderful journey! #
• Anyone headed to WordCampEd in DC on Nov 22nd? #

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• Hot tub soak was amazing. The stars were absolutely brilliant, brought back the wonder of my youth and made me question my future… #
• NSFW due to language, but if you’re a D&D geek, this is hilarious! If the ’08 Presidential Campaign were D&D – http://hellotxt.com/l/0Iv1 #
• Forgot where I put my working document for improving online course development. Found it in my wiki. Woot! #
• Realizing I need more quiet time to think. Got any to spare? #
• Reading a study on Dist. Ed and Acad Achievement in Business Administration. http://hellotxt.com/l/3rdS #
• Now reading in IRRODL – Meta-Analysis: Preferred method of choice for assessment of DL quality factors – http://hellotxt.com/l/lIII #
• Off to take sons to Cub Scout Pack Meeting. Halloween party tonight! Then relaxing in the hot tub. Who’s with me? #

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• Reading to the kids FTW! Now for NCIS – I’ll take Gibbs for a thousand Alex! #
• “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…” #
• A raw and dreary morning here in the mountains of NH. #
• @dlaufenberg – Definitely something to think about. Do they mind higher ed geeks there? #
• New CommonCraft video – Phishing Scams in Plain English – http://hellotxt.com/l/unT3 #
• Audio/video indexing – now this is promising! http://hellotxt.com/l/eTNB #
• Educause must be reading my mind, I presented this at my interview. 7 Things You Should Know About… UStream. http://hellotxt.com/l/ZIti #
• For my K-12 buds who might not be aware, Educause has a series of intros to tech tools available here: http://hellotxt.com/l/MzVk #

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