My man!

It's 7 years tomorrow that I last saw my daddy.

 I could say father but he was always daddy not dad to me.  He was so much more than that, I miss him still so much it hurts.  He was my mentor, hero, friend, confidant, my everything.  I miss his laugh, his easy ways, his love, all of him.  It was a long road after my mom died.  In the very beginning it wasn't bad at all, he just needed help with basic stuff, he was driving had girlfriends and it was good having him live with us.  Everything started going downhill around 1999-2000 he started having trouble with his walking, he had prostate cancer and needed radiation treatment, which left him incontinent.  But he still had his girlfriends. Then the nice one died and the smart one didn't want to go out with him any more because she knew there was something going on with his health.  Only Mildred held on.  We all hated her, she used him only to go out for dinner and to movies. etc.  But he was happy with her and that's all that mattered.  In 2000 I think is when he totaled his car and then I started to drive him on his dates.  I don't think Mildred liked that too much......to be continued

my journey with dad

I really want to start bloging about my caretaking I don't want to forget what it was like.

It's been a long time since I posted anything. I've been thinking about my dad George lately, and everything that happened to him and that I experienced with him. This is a song I found to get me through sometimes.

http://www.songaweek.com/lyrics/10062003_wheresjohn.html

Teen Tech Week Cont....

I have eight teens in the computer lab, I think they are having fun. I gave a short instruction on our data bases and then on Melville Dewey decimal system. Everyone one was very unimpressed.

ESP Journal: Teen Tech Week

ESP Journal: Teen Tech Week

Teen Tech Week

It's Teen Tech Week! I am sitting in the computer lab waiting for the middle schoolers to finish school. Non of the Teens have come in to the Cyber Game program I planned for Teen Tech Week. The high school lets out at 2:30 so I thought I would get a few teens in to at least see what we would be doing. I told the Anime Club about it and handed out a flyer, so far no one. The middle school gets out at 4:00 so if by 4:30 no one shows I will pack up and go back to the reference desk.

Thing 9 Technology

This is new technology that I could learn to love. Fingertip Digitizer.

This is part of an article from the University of Buffalo Newletter

With the tap of a single finger, computer users soon may be drawn deeper into the virtual world using a new device developed in the University at Buffalo's Virtual Reality Lab.
UB researchers say their "Fingertip Digitizer," which users wear on the tip of the index finger, can transfer to the virtual world the meaning and intent of common hand gestures, such as pointing, wagging the finger, tapping in the air or other movements that can be used to direct the actions of an electronic device, much like a mouse directs the actions of a personal computer, but with greater precision.
What's more, the Fingertip Digitizer can transfer to personal computers very precise information about the physical characteristics of an object -- and even can sense the shape and size of a human gland or tumor -- when a user taps, scratches, squeezes, strokes or glides a finger over the surface of the object.
According to Kesavadas, the Fingertip Digitizer will help bridge the gap between what a person knows and what a computer knows.
"With this device a computer, cell phone or computer game could read human intention more naturally," he explains. "Eventually the Fingertip Digitizer may be used as a high-end substitute for a mouse, a keyboard or a joystick."