marathon blog session upcoming

I just wanted to let everyone that may be reading my blog know that I will be doing a marathon session either today or tomorrow with all of my back-logged posts and some new posts.

Even an idea for a book....which I would greatly appreciate feedback about that idea.

Hope all is well and you're enjoying the summer weather. For some reason I think my predominantly Norwegian blood just doesn't like anything over 85 degrees....but I digress.

PA pictures 2

Hemlock Mountain Vista


Blurry Forest Path


Old Main up close
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Old Main from afar


Mountain Man Matt making nice with the Penn State Lion

PA pictures

This post is just some of the more interesting photos from my trip.

This is in Belfonte, PA. Just an interesting building


picture of a building built in 1816!!!!


mansion in Belfonte


Feeding the ducks in the park


Bear tracks in the hills...I figured this was a better picture than the other vestiges of the bears


I'm getting errors adding more...I'll post more in another post.

back from PA--off to OH

Well I've returned from Penn State....great place by the way. I recommend visiting the area at some point. It really reminds me of Oregon in many regards. But, I will try to catch up with a few postings tonight or tomorrow.

Plus some neat pictures from the trip. All taken with the iPhone...so you'll have to accept the inadequacies of a 2.0 Megapixel camera.

I will be off to Dayton tomorrow. So, perhaps I'll be able to catch up on postings then....as I will have an internet connection (I hope)


Oh, and a very strange thing happened. I really need help or comments on this one. My biological father called my parents out of the blue whom I haven't spoken with or seen since I was a kid (20 years without contact) wanting to talk with me. Has anyone here had an experience like this? What should I expect when I call him? Do you suggest I call him?

On the road.....again.

Well, I feel like I've done quite a bit the past few days, and blogging ins't one of them. However, I am preparing for a nice weekend at Penn State University this weekend. Funny relation there....I was in the Google Online Marketing Challenge which our team, the Six Amigos (even though there were four of us) came in 13th in the AMERICAS. Pretty cool when there were around 1600 teams, and probably just under 2/3 of them were based in the Americas. Well, the team that won the Americas group is based out of Penn State University...perhaps I'll go pop in on the professor and congratulate him.

I will eventually catch up on my blogging. I swear. I have all the ideas in my head--I just need to put them on "paper"

And so my great summer trip..........BEGINS!!!!

Image Content

I was listening to a podcast a few days ago and heard mention of a few websites that are great to access internet content to add to one's blog for free. Hmm...where did I put those links.... *paper shuffling for a few minutes*

The pages that the Small Biz Tech Girl mentioned are:

• Morgue File


• Flickr - Creative Commons


• Creative Commons


• iStock Photo


• StockXpert


• Every Stock Photo


• Getty Images

Ok...I guess some of these links are to sites that the photos have costs associated with the media....but most of them are free.

That's all for now.

12 hours of grading???

Ok, I'm getting further and further behind on my posts here, aren't I?

Some small news....I've added a new blog feed. "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" from CNBC.

For the past 12 hours (working hours) I've been grading papers as a Graduate Assistant. Trust me when I say that the job is NOT glamourous. It only pays $9/hr and you're grading graduate level work that requires subject matter expertise. Kind of strange, isn't it? I'm used to billing at $150/hr. Oh well. It makes me feel good to grade papers and help these grad students learn the material a little better with my "insights". But seriously, $9/hr to grade Database Design ER Diagrams? Relational Modeling? Functional Dependency? really???? seriously....