My mother is 92 this Friday March 27th!

My mother turns 92 this Friday, March 27th, 2009. She is still going strong. I have moved back into her Bonner Street home to spend as much time with her as possible. Mom still gets around fine - just a tad bit slower. The only down side is that her eyesight is failing her. She can no longer do a lot of things she has enjoyed over the years. Things such as knitting, quilting, reading the newspaper, doing crossword puzzles.

One new thing is her life is her cat - named Kitty. Mary and A.J. hooked her up with a neighborhood stray calico cat and she adores it. The cat steers clear of me (knows I am a dog person), but gives mom a lot of enjoyment.

Wilmington College graduation '76

Check out the outfits and how skinny we were at our college graduation in 1976 from Wilmington College. L to R: Mike "Vito" Pallini, Bob "Cow" Noppert, Richard "George Plimpton" Kayser, Lawrence "Pierre" Heitfield, & Don "Boom-Boom" Fortener. Photo courtesy of Pierre Heitfeld.

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Paisley is 6 weeks old - More Pictures

My granddaughter, Paisley Nicole Kayser, is now six weeks old and weighs almost 10 pounds. She is definitely a cutie. Here are pictures of Paisley, Her father Ross(my son), Me and her Great Grandmother Kayser (my mother) - 4 generations of the Kayser family.

Paisley with her mother Lindsey and with her father Ross and her Uncle Scott.

Please view my February 9 - My thoughts on Breast Cancer Video article

Please skip to my February 9th blog entry entitled 'My thoughts on the Breast Cancer Video' and read this entry.

My Granddaughter - Paisley Nicole kayser !

What and amazing event has happened in my life. On May 26th at 6:10pm I bacame a grandfather for the first time when my son Ross and his wife Lindsey had a beautiful baby girl. Paisley Nicole Kayser was born in Louisville, KY. She weighed in at 6 pounds 11 oz. She is just perfect. I had the good fortune to be there for the birth. What a great day for me!! Here are some pictures from her birth ( of course they are all of Grandpa holding her !)

FYI - Free Programming Animation Tool - ALICE

I attended the itWorks Conference last year in Columbus and sat in on a session where they talked about a FREE programming language for teaching in High School that is revolutionizing the industry. I thought I would share this with you. It's name is Alice and you can get to what you need at this link: Alice . It is a pretty neat tool. Developed at a university and now wholly supported by an entire users group and Carnegie Mellon University. If you would like the Alice Newsletter please email me at rkayser@greeneccco.com and I will email you the February edition.

A direct quote from the front of the book on Alice states: "Our approach allows students to author on-screen movies and games, in which the concept of an 'object' is made tangible and visible. In Alice, on-screen objects populate a 3D micro world. Students create programs by dragging and dropping program elements (if/then statements, loops, variables, etc) in a mouse bases editor that prohibits syntax errors".

Does this sound too good to be true or what. I have used Alice just a little bit. It does look good, but having been a professional computer programmer for 28+ years I am still skeptical. Will be until I dig in and actually use it. I am trying to figure out how to make this a part of my class curriculum.

Thought I would throw this out for anyone that might be interested. Free is definitely the right price. Let me know what you think!