The Run Down

I'm getting very behind on my blogging for a number of reasons.  We finished off the summer with a vacation, which left me a large number of photos that needed to be processed.  Immediately after returning, we started school.  Then, I unexpectedly, or rather unknowingly, took on a full-time job.  I have donated a significant portion of my time over the last five weeks to the set-up and start-up of our school's new library.  I can honestly say it's the most technical work I've put into something outside my own home, since I quit ExxonMobil.  Outside of the physical effort it has taken in the selection, cataloging, and barcoding of 4,500 books, I've also had a crash course in library database management and barcode generation and export.  While it was frustrating and exhausting at times, it was something that fit right into my skill set and I'm happy to have been a part of it.  Now that we've had a successful first week in the library, I expect to settle into what will be our normal school routine and hope to finally have some free time to get back to blogging.  In the mean time, while I work on getting the vacation post together, I thought I would go ahead and share the spring and summer run down.  This is the usual random collection of iPhone photos beginning with our annual spring hockey game to our last week of summer before we left for vacation.  Our spring was filled with lots of school activities and sports, while we packed our summer full of lots of beach and pool parties!