Backyard Turtle
Added March 6, 2026: The first appearance of a turtle in the very wooded backyard of the house I lived in then. (July 3, 2012)
Turtle in my backyard this morning..
Life
Things I put on Twitter in August 2011
(With some comments from me on March, 6, 2026)
- Lisa’s quote of the day: “I want to show daddy my name tag, I know he knows my name but I want to show him”. (Kindergarten was fun.)
- Earthquakes, hurricanes, Steve Jobs resigns, Pat Summitt’s health, Gaddafi on the run.
Night of the Tornado Outbreak
Added March 7, 2026: It was not a good night. My house survived intact, but I remember sitting in my hallway and thinking that all the windows in the house were going to break.
From WBIR April 27, 2021 – Ten years ago: Deadly tornado outbreak on April 27, 2011
According to National Weather Service a tornado was about 6 miles from me Wednesday night here in South Knoxville.…
So it’s 2009…
Added March 11, 2026: 17 years later, I’ve worked for UT full time for almost 20 years now.
I’m a non-tenured Clinical Assistant Professor at UT’s School of Information Sciences, where I got my master’s degree. From 2006 to 2024, I was staff at UT in one position on another.…
July jobs update
The paperwork for my job upgrade was been sent to HR, but it will be October before I see any salary increase. But the increase in pay will be retroactive until July 1, so it could be a nice payday. It doesn’t appear as though I’ve made it to the final interview stages of either of the jobs I applied for, although I could still be surprised.…
Jobs update
Well I didn’t get a librarian job. They hired someone for the User Education Technologies job but the Digital Media Technologies job was called a failed search and they’ll re-advertise it in the future. Better luck next time I guess.
On the brighter side my current position here at the library is being reviewed for an upgrade, and I’m in the pools for 2 other jobs elsewhere at UT and I’ve made it into the second round for both I think.…
Update on Cable, Interviews etc.
If you’ve looked at the recent posts here, you’d see that I’ve had issues with Comcast. I’m happy to report all is well. Setting up the Tivo again was a bit complicated, since this is the first time I’ve had a digital cable box.…
Comcast update – progress
Update 11:53 a.m. Cable will be installed tomorrow. Line run in the morning, cable installed in the house between 3 and 5 p.m.
Update 11:14 a.m It looks like we’ll be getting cable tomorrow!
Stephanie got a call from Comcast last night.…
Comcast doesn’t have the best command structure
Update: it’s in interesting tale, so feel free to read. Issues resolved, thanks Benny and Kirk and whoever else was involved for their quick work on this. Hopefully this situation won’t happen to anybody else.
So Stephanie and I got our new house built and we finally moved in in April.…
End of an era
Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk.
In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It’s been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections.…