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Asian RAKs

Here is a gallery of some Asian themed cards I’ve made over the years.

Garden Poems

Here are pictures that I used in a bound mini-album with the accompaning poems.

Pictures from around the UW

I still can’t believe I’m a graduate student. A non-traditional grad student to say the least, but still a grad student.

As I adjust to the new schedule, I still find time to experience the beautiful world around me.

Here are a few pictures I took with my Smart Phone on my first few days of class.

More pictures added to “Rural Life” gallery

The garden is either out of control or neatly planted for fall.
The cat is enjoying the late summer/ early fall weather.
The pasture has had it’s second-to-last mowing of the year.
The roosters, hens and “peep show” (the dozen chicks of Lucilles) are always hungry!

Evergreen State Fair Opening Day

Isaac and I went to the Evergreen State Fair on opening day. This was the first time that we went at the beginning of the fair. Usually we go on the last day, Labor Day,when the admission was half off. But it turns out the chickens are now only shown at the beginning.

Here are some pictures.

Lucille and her dozen chicks

I was heading to the barn to put something away and I heard some peeping. Lo and behold, under the spruce, was Lucille. I thought she had been the coyote’s lunch a few weeks earlier, but here she was with a bunch of broken eggshells.

I moved her to the coop and thought I picked up 8 chicks. Later, Isaac found that there was an even dozen. They stayed in the coop yard for the first week and now are venturing further afield. They still all try to nestle underneath their mum!

Lucille and her chickes.

So far, all are doing well, peeping up a storm all day long.

Dover Publications Samples

This is one of my favorite newsletters. Dover sends you a link each week to samples from their copyright free clipart, paper dolls, books, etc.
You can sign up here: http://www.doverpublications.com/sampler4/

Duvall Sandblast 2009

Isaac and I also visted Sandblast in Duvall on Sunday. We’ve been coming down to the river for the event for the past decade or so…

Here are the pictures.

Mediterranean Fantasy Festival 2009

I attended the annual MedFest sponsored by “The Babs” aka The Babylonian Ensemble. http://www.babylonianensemble.com/

Here are a few of the pictures I took of the bright colors and patterns from the vendors booths.

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Workforce Retraining and CAT Training Programs

Here are some links about some education programs that might help those of laid off from Aces and found our skills that were so compatible with Flight Sim and so forth were not valued in the rest of Microsoft.

There are programs where you can receive your unemployment benefits while taking classes to make yourself more employable. There are a lot of catches. — you’re dealing with goverment bureaucracy after all — but BC in particular has very experienced people to help you figure out if you qualify and help you with the process.

Workforce Education:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wetrainprog.asp

Approved Training Programs:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/wrptrainprog.asp

They have regular info sessions on campus which you have to attend:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/default.asp

Info about receiving unemployment:
http://bellevuecollege.edu/we/wrp/wrpui.asp

I highly recommend you attend the CAT/TB session. I ended up having to fax 14 pages for my application. If you don’t do things just right, you may mess up your UI status forever.