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The Northeast Kansas Library System was kind enough to cut me a check for a fair amount of money–enough to pay for registration and airfare. It would be foolish and rude of me to not take the money. I may be a fool, but I’ve got my manners. With the registration fee and airfare paid for, my wife and I can scrounge up enough money for me to stay in a hotel (especially if I can find someone to share a room with me) and eat at least a couple of square meals a day. All of which means…

…I’M GOING TO INTERNET LIBRARIAN ’06!

Oh boy, am I excited!

P.S.–My wife, because she is so supportive in as many ways as she can be, has a new nickname: the Awesomest Queen of the Awesomeverse. Long may she reign!

My wife just called me from home. There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that I got a grant from NEKLS to attend Internet Librarian ’06. Which is really really really good news.

The bad news is that the grant is for half of what I need to go to the conference. And because of circumstances beyond our control, my wife and I don’t have the money to make up the other half. Neither does my library.

So, at this point, it looks like I’m not going to Internet Librarian ’06.

There’s always next year.

Gee Whiz, I wish I could go to Internet Librarian 2006 this coming October! Some of the programs sound dead brilliant. But my library can’t send me, and there’s no way I can afford it out of pocket. *sigh*