Egad it is Oct 26!

I knew it would be busy - just didn't think it would be THIS busy! Not to whine.

We've moved Mom W over to assisted living. She found the day of the move very difficult of course, but with the short term memory loss, she has adjusted much more quickly than we expected. That's a great thing. However, the condo is still not sorted, let alone painted or ready to sell, and that hangs over our heads. Well, more over Brian's head, since I have the excuse of homework.

Fortunately 12 hours a week is "graduate research assistant" time. That means I am the second person for double entry data for a whack of information collected for a research project called "Healthy Alberta Communities", or "HAC" for short. I'm a happy HAC-er. I go, input data for hours and while I am giving half a mind to staying accurate, redesign the interface each time (curses to poor designers!). But it is 12 hours of relative peace. Nice people there too.

The courses I'm taking. Well I'll try to be better at writing, but today we were talking about the Columbia shuttle disaster and the evils of powerpoint as a communication mechanism. Jim, our instructor was trying to get us to say PPT is evil. I'm sticking with it's terribly misused (read "Presentation Zen". As another student, John, says: guns don't kill people, people kill people...

In short, it's such great fun to play with interesting ideas. Now back to the grindstone!