Hey, blog friends…sorry for the long delay between posts. I'm sure it won't be the last time. I just got back from a week and a half of vacation to Seattle, Chicago and Indiana. Cacey, Spencer and I had a great time visiting Pike Place Market, the first-ever Starbucks, Giordano's deep dish pizza, the Sears Tower Skydeck, De Brand Chocolate, and visiting with family near Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Now I'm back, attacking the hundreds of e-mails in the inbox, and we had a board meeting last night as well. I'll try and post a bit more about that soon…we had a very interesting dialogue with the Omniparty, which is the bargaining group for our unions. The state budget issue seems to be mired in gridlock (what's new), but Sierra College is really rising to the occasion in an incredible way — more on that soon.

The documents from last night’s meeting are now posted. Have a great week, and I'll post more soon!

PS: I'm on Twitter now. One description for it is a "micro-blog" because each post is 140 characters max. Still sort of figuring this out, but I have it working on the BlackBerry. If you're interested, you can check it out here.