3/4/2006 SITE throws a really nice reception

They had a lovely welcome reception Tuesday night from 6:30-7:30. Look at all the great food. It was in the penthouse of one of the towers so there was a lovely view.

3/4/2008 SITE Conference

We made it! Here's the registration desk (obviously at a slow time)
at the Riviera Convention Center. The SITE conference is fabulous as
usual. The Riviera is one of my least favorite locations of all the
places I've attended SITE.

3/4/2008 old friends are new colleagues

Dr. Robert Hancock started the Educational Computing Doctoral Program
at UNT when I did. We were in the "charter" cohort . . . the first
group of folks admitted to the new program in 2001. He's now a
professor at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana.
I saw his name in the program and surprised him by showing up at his
presentation. He's one of 3 other graduates of the program that are
here (Dr. Les Lunce is at Indiana State University in Terre Haute and
Dr. Becky Parton is also at Southeastern Louisiana after a year at
Texas Woman's University). Plus, folks who are still in the program
but will graduate soon are here at this conference: Rob Wright and
Mark Lucent that I've seen so far. How fun is this!?

3/3/2008 a VERY late dinner

3/5/2008 Indigenous Desert Creatures

Look at our new pet. We're trying to figure out how to get it home on
the airplane. ;-)

In the Vegas airport, on the way to baggage claim, they had 3 cool
sculptures: a scorpion, a rattlesnake, and this gila monster. The
animals these statues represent are all indigenous to this area (and
poisonous). Welcome to the desert.

Las Vegas here we come!

Grace, Beth and I (colleagues from UMF) are on our way to the Society
for Information Technology and Teacher Education International
Conference in Las Vegas. We're presenting a paper at the conference
and we're staying for most of the conference to attend sessions and
learn new stuff in our field. To get from Farmington to Vegas we had
to drive 2 hours to Portland, catch a flight from Portland to Newark,
NJ, and change planes to catch a flight to Vegas. In the Newark
Airport we had to get from gate 108 to gate 72 which included
changing concourses. Grace hurt her knee a while back while skiing so
she's moving a little slower than usual (still at a faster pace than
me, but slow for her). When we were walking to gate 72, she stopped a
lady driving a cart and asked to confirm that we were headed in the
right direction. The lady confirmed that we were and then said, "Hop
on!" So we did! And we saved about 10 minutes of walking plus got to
ride a cart through the airport (I think I've only done that one
other time in all my travels). How fun is that?! We even had time to
stop at the ladies' room AND get lunch before they started boarding
our flight. Shwew!

2/21/2008 The Dinner Gang Together Again

The three of us are back together again. This time we're at El Guapo in Denton. Do you recognize the Mexican food theme--December at La Hacienda, February at El Guapo? I have to make up for lost time whenever I'm back in the area so I eat lots of Tex Mex when I visit. The conversation and camaraderie were even better than the food, which was delicious. We closed the restaurant down. It's going to be hard to have to wait until August to see these dear friends again. :-(