Busy Week

I apologize for going so long without posting. I've been way too busy. Faculty Senate meetings, getting ready for our academic program review external team visit (I'm chairman of the internal APR team), making and giving exams this week, I was elected President of MARA, Inc., at their annual meeting last night, publishing the Monitor, polishing an article to pacify a nit-picking reviewer at a journal, serving on the DAP-students faculty committee (officially, it's the Deficient Academic Progress committee looking at low-performing students, but some of us call it the Dumb-as-a-Post- students committee), getting ready for the Grindstone 100 this weekend, there just aren't enough hours in the day. Big Al has been visiting before his deployment to Djibouti, so it's been nice having him home again... even if he does spar with the Bopnopper a bit to much for my taste. They have been enjoying seeing each other again. Dubby has been enjoying her work at the Frontier Culture Museum, check out the pics of her in her costome on hers and Bopnopper's Blogs. Oh, and be SURE to watch the Video of Lint Monkey juggling firesticks and eating fire in Alaska at Lint Monkey's Blog! Cool!