Finally Got it the way I want it

It's nice to have a son who is a web master when you're taking a course in web design. I would be completely lost without him. He is patient and a good teacher. Looking at HTML is like looking a an electric schematic for me. The rules make sense - I just can't remember them for more than five minutes and this flipping back and forth to w3c is ridiculous. I wouldn't be bad if I could put them side by side. I looked back at my Dickens 2 and for some reason the word wrap disappeared, so I had to go research that. I finally got Dickens 3 the way I want it. Now I have to create a portfolio and stuff everything into it. This should be fun. Especially with 3 teenage boys running through the house. My brother-in-law is down with my nephew and 2 friends to take part in Jamie Dixon's basketball camp. They did it last year too. They're not bad, it's just a bad week. But if I can get the portfolio done then I'm home free as I finished my last report for Copyright yesterday. There are some advantages to having the boys, they wore out both Cuda and Frosty yesterday and wore themselves out in the pool. Jake's Mom told me he has grown 5 inches and gained 25 lbs. over the past year. Quite a growth spurt. Austin, my nephew is now the shortest of the 3.
Mary was sick over the weekend and did not venture out of bed. Maybe we can use some of that muscle power to get her bed set up the way she wants it.
Then I can finally think about vacation. I can't wait.

Not up to par

I seem to only be averaging one post a week. I think we're supposed to do two per week. Oh well, I keep getting sidetracked by projects for both classes. It's hard to keep up and work full time. The past two weeks I've taken Friday off just to get some work done. This past weekend I searched my links and connected them to my web page and uploded it again to unixs. Then I wrote my paper and my personal response to my virtual poster in Copyright and Fair use. I also took my quiz. The quiz was fair. I just don't think I answered some of the questions as completely as he would have liked.
I swam yesterday for about 30 minutes in my pool about 4:00 on a perfect Sunday. The only thing lacking was some music and some company. It's lonely swimming alone. I did about 10 laps, have to go for 12 the next time. The water was perfect, warm, but not bathtub warm. The pavement around the pool was plenty hot to make you want to get your feet in the water. My husband bought a small hard sided pool for my daughter's Pit Bull. It only took him about 15 minutes to learn how to get in and out. He loves the water and loves to jump anytime the hose is going especially if it has a nozzle on it which makes it hard to clean the bag for the pool cleaner if he is anywhere around.
My dog Frosty, a white Siberian Husky looks like a sick sheep right now. He is shedding in patches and really looks funny. I keep pulling out clumps of fur every time he goes by. He woke us up at 1:30 am this morning. He had wrapped his lead around a tree 3 times and couldn't go anywhere. So he yipped and whined until he woke us up to come and rescue him.
I put my beloved cat mittens to sleep on Friday, may she rest in peace. She had mouth cancer and it was a huge lump on one side of her mouth and was beginning to show on the other side too. She was having trouble eating and wasn't getting around much anymore. Everywhere she went there was pale drops of blood. It was pretty disgusting. But I held her until the end. So I did my best. I would have buried her on our twelve acres, in the woods, but I was really afraid something would come and dig her up. Then I would be even more heartbroken.
Well, time to go find something about copyright in the news. more later.

fastt week

This week has gone so fast. I took Friday off to try and catch up on stuff at home and for class and ended up reading about 50 pages just to find out today that he extended the deadline. Mind you I'm not complaining about an extension. Spent today working on my Virtual Poster on Indigenous Copyright. It's a harder topic than I thought it would be because it encompases so much. It's hard to express it in just a few concise sentences. Tomorrow I have to work on my web site. So much to do, so little time. I now have 3 beds stripped and none of the sheets are ready to go back on so I have to get them done before bedtime. I am also having trouble finding some of my documents as my home computer tends to save them to wierd places.
I now have 3 beds stripped and none of the sheets are ready to go back on so I have to get them done before bedtime. I threw together a dinner of leftovers that even I thought was terrible. I wanted to go out but Mary didn't feel like it. She has been in bed all day.
I am hoping the website test goes ok. I am looking forward to it but I'm also terrified that Ill do something terribly wrong and have to start over again.
I have to remember that I have a dr's appt on Monday morning. I forgot about it and didn't tell my office. As of Monday all the Librarians are at AALL so I guess I'm in charge. It should be a very quiet week.
Once all this is done I still have to finish my book and study for the quiz for next weekend. It NEVER ends.

The fourth is past already

Drove to Md. over the weekend, left Fri and came back Sunday. We celebrated my step-mother's 81st birthday. It was nice and quiet, just Tom, Mary Ann, Me, Jonathan and Mom. She does much better with a small group between not being able to hear and her alzheimer's disease. She must have asked about her purse 30 times and it was never more than 3 feet away from her. Then she wouldn't go back into the home until she was sure I had mine. At least we can blame it on the disease now, growing up I don't know what her problem was - she was always obsessive/compulsive and adt. It made it very hard to live with her. We stopped at my Dad's grave and visited for a few minutes. She really appreciated that. We followed a funeral into the cemetary that had to have 50 cars in line waiting to get into the cemetary. I haven't seen a funeral that big in awhile.
I finished my Koha project and my response to essay 2. So the project for this week are done. Next week is going to be the killer, I have the dickens fragment due, A virtural poster and a paper due on a book I havent read yet. Oh, and our 2nd quiz is next week too.

Mark's Dad is still at the rehab center. Mark still goes to visit every day but it's for shorter periods of time. So hopefully he can get some rest. Mary is finally feeling better and back at work.
The fiscal year is over, the new allocations are in so I'm back to paying bills.
Heat Wave this week - it's supposed to be 98 here today. Over 100 in DC.
Nancy Shafer just called from Ocean City to say it's brutal there. But the A/C is working as is the can opener. So at least I don't have to go out and get a new one.
Guess I have to start getting caught up on the readings for class. Time to go.

It's July already

Ok - I have 6 days to do my Koha post. Did my report for Legal and handed that in. Have another book to read and a virtual poster to do all In 15 days. It's going to be a busy 2 weeks. Thank goodness I'm only taking 2 classes, I can't imagine what the kids that a taking 4 are going through. I'm leaving tomorrow to go and see my step-mother who turns 81 tomorrow. She is in a home in Laurel, Md. She has Alzheimer's. She still recognizes us when we call or come but she definitely can't remember anything short term, like what she had for lunch. She gets so frustrated asking the same thing over and over again. I haven't been down in 2 months due to class and other commitments. I really feel guilty when I don't get down. I hope to come back on the 4th so I can get some work done on the 5th. I hate it when I have to do school work over a holiday. I really want to be free and have fun. But not this year, too much to do. I am also hoping that this is the year I finally get to the Bib Butler Fair. I have missed it the past 10 years we have lived in Butler co. I'm going to make a point to go this year even if I have to go by myself.
Hopefully Mary is feeling better today. She is getting over the flu and has been off work all week.
Grandpa Mark is still in Presby recovering from quadruple by-pass. They're trying to find a rehab place for him to go. He needs alot of physical therapy to get his strength back.
So with the new Fiscal Year upon us I have alot of new things to do, like set up the new folders for the files, and put in to renew all the contracts. Guess I better get to work.