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Topic:	Link and Description:
Work Stuff	APEX/EXPO/Designers Summit IPC Midwest IPC Homepage 5-24b Homepage
Family and Friend Stuff:	Michael Munie: Net Presence Steve Scherer's Art Glass Tracey Babcock's Riding School for special needs children. Randy Richards Would you buy a used syllogism from this man? Howard Spense: Here come da judge! Ron Trojcak: One a them Catholic types. Dave Ash: Grad School Madness! Chris Grier: Farmer City Barcrawl indeed! Jean He: Cool Lady Greg Blonder: The real Bell Labs Arno Penzias: Not with a whimper but with a BANG! Paul Scherer: Wanna buy a t-shirt? Tom Graedel: Save the Planet! Richard Wool: All the Best of Polymer Science DeAnn Parham: Mission to Kenya
Religious, Educational Etc. Stuff:	My old home parish. Our current parish. St. Procopius Abbey The Oblates of St. Procopius Give peace a chance. Stift Melk Fr. Burke's Blog Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist I am humbled by this: courage and conviction. U of I at UC U of I at Chicago Stanford Yoav Shoham's group at Stanford Formerly known as Proco
Fun Stuff:	Strongbadia Basic Instructions
Exercise:	My alma mater of combat. Would you prefer pistols? Training tips I find useful. More training tips and ideas. Working class fitness.
Resources and Tools:	Flight Tracker Google Anywho Google Maps Neat way to travel! Wikipedia
Stuff:	RECIPES: Greg's and friends (updated 1/12/10) Personal Publications Personal (CV Format)
Thoughts on Responsibility and Self-Criticism: (Proverbs 21: 29, Psalm 36: 2-3)	A Message to Garcia Teddy Roosevelt on Character Interesting articles. A sermon on the Feast of the Epiphany 2006. Three sermons in Ordinary Time 2008 and 2009.
Thoughts on Life	It is not what we are given at birth that matters. The mark we make in this life is determined by the choices we make everyday. - Fr. Julian Deurbeck O.S.B. If we live a family life of love and kindness, of care and concern, our children will learn a lesson that they will want to pass on to their children. - Abbot Dismas Kalcic If you embrace the values of your culture you will become indifferent to the presence of God within you. - Abbot Dismas Kalcic There are five truths about life we would do well to learn: Life is hard, you are going to die, you are not in control of your life, you are not that important and your life is not about you. - John Grossman

Winemaking

Through the gracious generosity of the monks at St. Procopius Abbey I have been learning to make wine using the grapes of their vineyard and the fruit of their orchard. Two years of "vinting" have been completed and the grapes of 2008 have been harvested, fermented, bottled and turned over to the monks. The wine types for 2008 were apple, Niagara white, Carco Red rose, Beaujolais style Concord, wild Concord grape and a variety of other Concords.

Harvest is complete for this 2009 growing season. The pre-fermentation is done for all wines and secondary fermentation is either (for the various wines) at the end stages or complete.The apple and Beaujolais have been bottled. And hopefully soon all the wines except for the Concords will also be bottled. Wines for this year are the abbey's traditional concord and other concord mixes, Beaujolais and Bordeaux style wines, wild Niagara and wild Concord wines, Carco Red rose, apple, Niagara white and (hopefully) a sparkling rose Concord.

I have added a few pictures of the process for viewing. If you are interested in participating in this process please contact me via e-mail. Or if you are interested in the monastic lifestyle and might even like spending a weekend staying with the monks and getting a feel for their life please vist the abbey's web site.


Last Updated 2/19/10
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