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Last day in Lolla-Land

Saturday, August 14, 2010

When we got up on Sunday morning in Oak Park, for the last day of Lollapalooza, it was raining – as it is right now in Madison, as I write this, already the following Friday.
Mark and I went to Starbucks, and I took my computer for the free wifi, and wrote an earlier blog post. [...]

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Day 2, Lollapalooza

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

I think I woke up a little the worse for the beer on Saturday morning, but Mark & I got coffee, then we woke up the kids and went for a real breakfast. Our favorite Greek-owned breakfast place moved a few blocks west, on Madison St. on the border between River Forest & Forest Park, [...]

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Vacation!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

After the over-busyness of last week, we are now on vacation at Lollapalooza in Chicago.
We got here at about 5:00 on Friday. Mark & Ethan & Abby went straight down to the show. My foster daughter’s aunt was here on the dot to pick her up, but we had to wait a bit for the [...]

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Chicago Trip for FUSION #3 – Navy Pier

Sunday, July 18, 2010

On the last night of the conference, Tuesday, they put on a big event for us at Navy Pier with a blues band, cash bar – but we got two drink tickets at registration – and lots of food. Plus silly games like bumper car bikes, and balloon animals.
And, this time I got back to [...]

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Chicago Trip for FUSION, pt. 2

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Like I said there was a lot more food provided at the computer-type conference than is the norm at librarians ones. So the only night I really went out for dinner was Monday. After the meetings ended, and to get a little exercise, I walked up Michigan Ave. to the big Borders. I bought a [...]

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Chicago trip for FUSION

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

I’m in Chicago for a conference, a users’ group for the software that U of Wisconsin (and lots of other people) are using to deliver their online courses. As a theme, because we’re in Chicago, they’re calling it “Architects of Education”. I’ve been thinking it’s really the first non-librarian conference I’ve gone to in a [...]

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