Weekend :)

The week went really fast. Hard to believe we were in Mexico just over a week ago. John and I have been getting ready for the Job fair next week. We will be traveling to Anchorage for most of next week hoping to fill the last few spots left in BSSD. I will be responsible for scheduling and maintaining all of the video conferences during the week. BSSD and other school districts will have video conferences set up to bring in administrators and or principals into interviews with prospective hires. BSSD is also providing a large portion of the computers at the job fair which will be used for the attendees to check into the fair, or to sign up with ATP (Alaska Teacher Placement), which is the best way to get a job in the state.

We got an xServe in last week we are hoping to use to set up quicktime streaming of our video conferences for the rest of the year, and for the years to come. Currently we are using GCI’s Starbak system which only streams in Windows Media player. This pretty much doesn’t work for us. It is a really finicky media codec, and doesn’t work reliably on Apple machines. Quicktime on the other hand is truly universal, and when using the new H264 codec has a very small file size, yet still has very good video quality. So I have been working on setting that up this week. we are bringing the server down to Anchorage next week, hoping to install it.

The weekend hopefully will involve a lot of relaxation. Erin and I fly out of here on Tuesday evening. Erin will be heading over to Valdez on Wednesday morning. I will work the rest of the week in Anchorage with John, then fly into Valdez on Friday night. I guess my dad will be in Anchorage Thursday through Saturday, so hopefully we will be able to hang out a bit before Valdez. He is in for a telephone board meeting. He will join us back in Valdez on Saturday evening. I took Monday off, so we won’t have to leave Valdez till that morning, getting back into Unalakleet that night.

Got an email from Mike Svir tonight. Sounds like he and Amanda had a good time down in Florida for their spring break. I am looking forward to seeing them this summer. They are really cool, and I miss hanging out with him. So this summer should be a lot of fun.

I’ve been stumbling around the internet and ran across a couple interesting sites.  The first one has some amazing 3D sidewalk art, and the other one had “The worst analogies ever written in a high school essay”.  I thoght it was funny, so I’ll pass it on.

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