I spent almost all day at Sutter Health's conference center at Glen Cove in Vallejo for the TAG meeting. TAG is a regular meeting of all the IT Directors from the different affiliates within Sutter Health. I realized part of the reason that I feel like the pace has increased at work. While sitting in the meeting, I was trying to schedule a couple of other meetings to do some hardware planning for 2004 and the first dates I could find were in the middle of December. My calendar is almost completely full for the next month!

We had parent/teacher conference with Jack's teacher on Thursday evening. Jack is doing well academically. Jack is in the morning kindergarten class and there is 13 boys and 6 girls. The teacher is having some problems with the boys, including Jack, in this class. After going to the morning kindergarten from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., almost of the kids go to extended day together. They spent from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. or later together in a more unstructured environment. While they have some structure work in extension, the boys spent a lot of time playing basketball and football. They are very physical with each other and this get carried back into the classroom.

My fantasy football team won week nine by a score of 89 to 72. The team's record now stands at 7 wins and 2 losses. There is one team in the league with a record of 8 wins and 1 loss; I play that team this weekend. One other team has 6 wins and 3 losses.