More new videos

Here are some new videos from the kid, and the dog, too.

Holiday Party Videos

Hi Guys,

Here are some videos from Justin's Elementary School Holiday Party. Mr. Lavelle (his Teacher) is in the 2nd video below.

Testing

Please ignore this useless post.

A report of the Library Camp

Hi Everyone,

Not sure exactly which blog to post this to, but I haven't used this one in a while, so I might as well fill this one up with some more electrons.

Anyway, I had a blast working with Steve and Laura on unorganizing the Unconference last Friday the 10th. The important thing for me was to help facilitate the gathering of people from a wide range of library backgrounds and interests. I often find that librarians can be somewhat secluded and insular in their approach to solving problems and helping their patrons/clients/users/customers or whatever else we want to call 'em. When we break out of our shells, we can meet new people and that can spark new ideas. It is that aspect of the unconference that really intrigued me.

I'd also like to thank Joshua Neff and Jezmynne Westcott for their help, advice, support and all that other jazz.

Without the LSW, and the Meebo chat room, I doubt that this camp would have existed.

Thanks again to Mary Stansbury and Clara Sitter of the LIS Program at DU for paying for the rooms. The LIS program highly recommended the Camp for their students, and this created a LOT of youthful energy and new ideas.

Hope to see you all next year!

Justin ran two 5K races in the last week

Hi Everyone,

Justin ran a 5K race that benefited Lakewood HS a week ago on September the 7th, and this morning he ran a 5k race that benefited Wheat Ridge HS. Today, he finished in 3rd place for boys in his age group! I also put up some pics from the recent JUC Church picnic.

Take a look at the pics here.

More new pics

More new pictures can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokrausdu/. A bunch of them are from the 4th of July.

Pictures at Flickr

Thought I would use Flickr to see if uploading and managing the photos would be easier. So, here is the Seattle 2008 Trip set and the Springfield Wedding trip set.

Lakeside Night

Cub Scout Article

There is an article in the local Columbine Courier about Pack 640, which is Justin's pack of Cub Scouts. Here is a PDF version of the article.

Justin is the one in the center of the image on the left, making a big "Ooooooohhh" sound.

More picture, some new -- some old

Here they are...

Legos and More

Justin had a great time building a HUGE Lego character near the Lego store. Guess what Star Wars character he helped to build!






Here are some other good pictures. He had fun at the raingutter regatta this year.

Science Fair Project, and more

Hi Guys and gals,

Here are some more pictures -- Justin won first place for all of 2nd grade for the Dennison Elementary Science Fair! He is very proud of his model. It shows what the insides of planets are made of. I can't believe he won; he/we whipped it together over about 3 nights. Anyway, here are some relevant photos.




He is an "awesome reader"...



Justin is learning how to program a 1970's era bowling alley computer...

Hockey!

Justin has been taking ice skating lessons -- and finally -- leading up to this day (April the 6th), he now started his hockey lessons...

Justin says, "In my lesson, I was told to mostly stay in this position."

Mitch, Jeannine, Rich and Nancy were here...

Here are some pics from their visit during Spring break, March 24-30th or so. Most of the pics are of Justin, of course.

Birthday Party on April the 5th

Justin had his 8th birthday party with about 13 other friends over to the house. We had a guy come over from www.spacetimekids.com to do a demonstration. (He is the guy in the orange shirt.) This gave us an hour of free time during the party.

Concerning the pics with the 3D glasses, they looked at 3D photos of Mars. The rest of the pictures are pretty self-explanatory.

Destination Imagination

Here are some pictures from Justin's Award Winning "Destination Imagination" event that went on March 1, 2008. They won the Renaissance Award for teamwork and authenticity.