(Cold wind blowing last nite...and me stuck up on a 50 foot high scissor lift, videoing a football game...without enough warm clothes...ARRGH!)

I've had some "blog" issues the past couple of weeks. My class/work/lab/sleep schedule is wound tighter the Rush Limbaugh after a trip to Florida. I've tried posting using BLOGGER's online post system, and after a lengthy addition being finished, and all the stuff ready to go, I hit "post", and my content simply "vanishes" from the screen, and since I haven't hit cntl+c tp copy into memory...it's just gone...so I get "pist" when I hit "post" now. In my worried state, and impending "whatever" on the schedule, I would not have time to start over again.

Anyway, had many things to add both times, and now that I have time, some isn't coming back to mind as fast as I'd like it to...( the sorrows of being an old man...at 43).

Good things going on at school this week. My new webdev club is up and running. First meeting this week...handful of students...but had short notice after getting the meeting place AND the college senate approval of the clubs charter.

I did get it added to the college website front page this, last week, and next week, it will be in the campus newsletter as well. With signs posted on a the bulletin boards across the quad and in almost every hallway, we should get something good going here as far as membership.

The even better news is that I talked to the Academic Vice President, J.D. Rottweiler (yes, that's his real name) and after a short but stirring speech by me regarding "getting outside interest in the web development curriculum", I have the ok to open the club/users group to the general public.

Being one of the biggest campuses in the whole western half of the state of Wyoming, as well as one of the biggest population centers in that same reqion, we can effect quite a bit of positive influence in the computer/internet arena through some really concerted efforts. I am looking forward to this challenge immensely.

I've added a few more changes to the club site, got registered with the corporate sponsered user group programs at Microsoft, Macromedia, O'Reilly, SAMS, and many others, and we'll be getting some great evaluation software, free books, and so on to make the club a RESOURCE, where there really isn't any in the state that I know of.

On the home front, my youngest son, Kenny, played his first paying gig at a local cafe in an acoustic guitar concert in Lander, with his two bandmates, Sean and Jason. He did well, in an 18 song set, that lasted about almost two hours. He and Sean wrote over half the songs themselves, which is quite impressive.

I shot video of the most of it ( problems with one of the tape caused me to miss some of it). Will try to get a couple of songs digitized and on the site someday soon.

With my contacts here on campus, I will be able to get Kenny and his buds into the recording studio to get a few tracks cut before the holidays, and will help him get some CDs cut to pass around at future concerts.

Enough for now...running the business lab this afternoon (on a saturday) and have to get ready to shut it down in a half hour, so I'll sign off. (This post WILL get uploaded first try...I hope).

Richard