Housekeeping

Today I spent the day planning and tying up loose ends online. Now that my new volunteers have gotten started on the unfinished pages of the Space Exploration area, I decided it was time to go around and update all our profiles and links scattered around the web. Since I only visit a small number of these sites on a regular basis, it's easy to lose track of just how much I posted beyond the boundaries of the AARI site. In fact, I only come to realize just how busy I've been (trying to publicize AARI) when I open my password booklet to try and figure out how to log in to a site I haven't visited in months-- then I see just how many there are... Most people use only a few passwords and they tend to be people, places or things of significance to that person. I'm a stickler when it comes to security so it's pretty unusual for me to re-use passwords and I NEVER use all lowercase letters or just one word either! As for the booklet, I keep it locked up in a hidden safe box most of the time and only one other person on Earth knows where it is.

At any rate, I've had all these plans... things I've been meaning to get around to for the longest time. For instance, we created pages linked to our website for two educational sites we had planned to launch several months ago ("Learn with Laika" and "Future Lab @ AARI"). With all the fundraising activities (opening/running the gift shop, participating in shows and exhibitions, advertising), paperwork/red tape (for funding), a move (back to Canada from Boston, where AARI was born), planning for a second move (when we branch out to the UW-Madison campus next year), financial/business planning, research proposals... it's no wonder I took up making jewelry to soothe my frazzled nerves! Life was so much easier when I was a tech (being instructed not to think or question anything, no less!) but I just couldn't bear having to replicate and reproduce other people's work any longer. Some of us really aren't content to copy. I was hungry for something new and challenging and I sure found it, didn't I?

I'm already contemplating the next blog entry. In fact, I posted a survey about it on Facebook. Depending on how members of a certain group vote, content of a more personal nature may or may not appear in the next entry... (yes, I have to leave you hanging).

Until next time...