Sunday we all went to another meet for Clare at Scamps in Kenosha. She was solid in all events and came home with plenty of hardware. Another beautiful beam routine (9.225, 2nd place medal) and a great bars routine (8.4, 11th place medal) led the way. She earned an 8.1 on floor (12th place medal) • Read More »
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It’s OK, I’m in the band
September 28, 2007 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: HKS.Both Hannah and Clare are in the band at Marshall. Hannah plays clarinet and Clare plays alto saxophone. Middle school band members are included in the marching band with the high-schoolers. On Friday the marching band played at half-time of the varsity football game. They did a little “pep” before and during the game (Hannah • Read More »
Photomosaic images
September 28, 2007 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.Proving that it’s dangerous to “try out” a new piece of software, I innocently started playing with a free photomosaic image generator. Why? Couldn’t tell you. But it’s kind of cool. It uses a library of images to create a mosaic of another image you specify. In the example below, I used their stock library • Read More »
Ouch…Deerfield dominates Marshall
September 27, 2007 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: HKS, Volleyball.Tough games last night as the Marshall eighth grade girls volleyball team hosted Deerfield in what proved to be a drubbing by the visitors. Deerfield had a girl who was using a jump serve. In 8th grade! Not a particularly hard hit ball, but it looked very impressive to everyone in attendance. I think it • Read More »
Badger Men’s Hockey TV schedule announced
September 26, 2007 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Uncategorized.Plenty of opportunities exist to catch the UW Badgers men’s hockey team on TV this season. The TV schedule was recently announced and many games will be on a wide selection of TV networks including, surprisingly, the Big 10 Network. Since there is no Big 10 conference for hockey, it seemed logical that they wouldn’t • Read More »