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Links of Interest to Me

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
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 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 Calamities of Nature
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 7/02/09) Personal Publications
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 and are now in the bottling process. (The apple, white, rose, Beaujolais style and wild Concord wines are bottled and given to the monks. The rest of the wine, Concord, is, for the most part, still bulk aging and is being bottled in batches. The vineyard itself is being weeded and pruned for the 2009 growing season.) 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.

In the spring of 2007 I was asked to speak on my experience at a class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have linked in my slides (updated for 2008 wine making) here so if anyone is interested in this wine making project or the chemistry of wine making (at a very high level) they can puruse them. I have also listed here a link to a local news story on this work.



SOME OTHER PICTURES

On the Sangamon River

And Jesus wept: Infant graves Decatur, Mahomet, and Rutledge Cemetary outside Le Roy

My alma mater.

Old Blue.

Memento mori!

Dust devil, McLean County Illinois Route 3

Michael and Jeffery in Hallstadt, Austria

Alps mountain storm above the Halstadt See, Austria.

Hallstadt, Austria.

Augsbach Markt on the Danube, Austria.

Last Updated 7/02/09
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