Greetings From Jerry

Greetings my friends. So sorry that it's taken me so long to join back in and say hello. Life has been crazy & hectic as usual - but also quite good. The summer ended on a couple of wonderful notes after my "good friend" finally passed, allowing me to get off of medication and return to a "normal??" mental state. Hawaii was absolutely wonderful, relaxing, beautiful, etc. etc. Our sons wedding was great fun - & then it was back to work. It's been an interesting year - many more administrative issues, pains, red-tape, garbage, etc. etc. this year than in some past years - but it appears that things may be starting to smooth back out a bit. The last few weeks have been all about Follett Destiny. Our district is upgrading our Circ/Cat system. I was made the lead librarian on the project so have been working hard on all the arrangements, communicating back and forth between the company, trainers, technicians, all the other librarians, etc. Tomorrow we finish up our second day of on-site training and then we go "live" with Destiny on Monday. We are all so excited. I knew it was a cool system - but after today's training and learning even more of what it can do - am very excited to get going with it. Looking back on some past posts I see that Emily already gave you links to some of my new stuff. The most important one for you is my Delicious site with all of my bookmarks:
http://delicious.com/jdredge

I am working at getting in all of my links from all of my CWU classes and getting them organized. I have completed entering all the Web 2.0 links - but am still working on links for some of the Information Literacy, Questioning stuff - and then things from my Production Class. My plan is to continue to keep this updated and keep adding stuff as I find new cool sites. So, keep checking it out if you're interested. Even though I haven't contributed much here - I am seriously enjoying checking in every once and awhile and reading about your various exploits. It's always fun to see how my "kids" are doing. Continued good luck to all of you & many rich blessings - Jerry