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It is Saturday morning around 8:30 and I have been up for awhile, I have some written work to look after before I do anything else; if I don’t write it down now it will continue to bother me while I do my usual week end chores around the house. I seem to be working all the time, my brain is given a taks to think something through and responds very easily with a solution when it comes to coding and organising material.
The material is quite important and needs to be 200% accurate so I will work at this text today, with Toshi, my laptop, at my side while I do more mundane work in the kitchen. The first step towards writing this text is to write the notes which have brewed and matured in my head since I read the brief on Thursday afternoon in a cafe on Nassau street opposite Trinity University in Dublin.
Time to prepare a coffee filter and pen down the notes.
The process of thinking and writing down the thoughts is an easy one for me but I have noticed that for some of my students it feels more like a enormeous hurdle rather then a pleasure, so I take great care in guiding them along the path of thought expression.
10:12 After breakfast & coffee and some household tasks
As planned, I wrote the notes by hand while I was sitting on the couch with a slice of toast with margarine and homemade jam (raspberries from Tadcan’s garden).
Next is planning the layout of the document, sorting out the title and header + footer, checking the original document layout for clues ….
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I made a very good beginning for the document, even ploughed into the second part; so I have typed out what I had in my mind now need to think some more..

Sitting with ‘Toshi’ on my lap, Shadow snoring beside me. The house is quiet and no teenagers have surface as yet. I should have been at the gym this morning but a nasty bug has gripped my head, throat and chest. Not much energy…. My older son is coming over for dinner this afternoon, so we can chat code together. I wonder how many Mams talk ‘computer’ with their sons? I can’t possible be the only nerdy Mam? Anybody out there with similar life?

While I am here resting from a bug, I am going for a visit to the Monastery in Second Life, there is an exhibition on ‘Kisses’ in art. I promise I will bring back some photos.

I took a video with Camtasia and loaded it up to my library on Screencast. Click on the poster to see the video of the exhibition. I am including the Slurl to Monastery so you can go and visit the exhibition. You will land on the road right beside the Monastery. A big thank you to Arria Perreault who organised the exhibition; Arria is the curator of the museum. The Monastery has a website, with more information on the events.