Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving dinner will be at uncle Tom's house in Rolling Meadows. More info soon.

Jim is in Denver, he uploaded some nice pictures to facebook:

Grandpa's Birthday

Tomorrow, Sunday November 13th, is Grandpa's birthday. We will be celebrating it at 1:00 at Aunt Mary and Uncle Terry's house(same house on Oakton). Hope to see you all there. Come hungry =)

More Pictures of Tina, Mom and Dad in Carleton

Mom and Tina PLUS: gallery of Aunt Mary's wedding pictures

Mom and Tina in Carleton's arboretum(I think).
Here is a link to some of Mary's wedding pictures

and for accessablity purposes here is the URL:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=615125023214:925793881&sourceId=undefined&cm_mmc=undefined

Lucien James Hahn

Some pictures Ellen uploaded to facebook

Mom in her scrubs

I have to start leaving more sentences here but enjoy the picture of mom in her harper scrubs and me out by the pond.

Jimmy's Place in Arlington Hts. closed over taxes

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Grandpa Washington DC Honor flight

ww2 vets(grandpa), uncle tom and some others

Pond Cleaning - Labor Day

I helped Dad clean the pond today. It was a perfect day for the work. Here are some pictures.

Beaver Island pictures

Grandpas old car on the island.

Dan's favorite view.

Biggest birch tree in Michigan. Next summer ill get a full picture of this tree. Not even half of it is shown here.

A big rock, they say 2/3rds of it is under ground.

We had the time of our lives. I wish I would have been able to visit uncle Dan and family. I think Charlie and Dan might have visited them.

I heard we missed a great baby shower. I had some of the leftover food the past few days and it was delicious.

Ellen's Baby Shower soon

Ellen's Baby shower is officially on Sunday August 21st at 1:00pm at Aunt Mary's house.

Nick and Ellen have registered on amazon if you are interested in buying one of these gifts.

I won't be able to make it to this party, I'm leaving for Beaver Island Friday the 19th.

Mom has helped aunt Mary plan the party and it should be good.

This weekend

Dan will be in town this weekend. Him and Sam are going to Florida for a Disney World vacation.

Pete and Kristen: Stop by or call on Saturday if you want to see Dan, mom has been sad: she never gets to see you two.

Monday is Tony's Birthday.

Have a good rest of the week.

Jim in Australia

M-Libraries 2011 conference (Brisbane - Australia)

Random Post recommendations

I just wanted to make a post and didn't know what to post about for the family so I made this random post.

Post recommendations in a reply to this. Anything that you recommend you can reply with, post anything you recommend, I will start.

Movie: Cars
I just saw this for the first time two nights ago and it is already in my top 5 of all time.

Music: Any/all of Weird Al's polkas(Polka Your Eyes Out, Angry White Boy Polka, Hooked on Polkas, Polkas on 45, ...others)
These songs are pure entertainment.

Another Barbecue

A week from today: on the 3rd of July, there's going to be another family Barbecue party at 3:00. Uncle Tony and family should be in town and there might even be a pizza party Friday or Saturday but as of now only the barbecue is confirmed. Have a great week and see you Sunday.

Music video at RMHS

Does the name Tim McIlrath ring a bell from RMHS? Wikipedia says he was born in November 1979, so he must have been class of '97 or '98. He also went to Wayside. Anyway, his band filmed a music video at Meadows - with an anti-hate message, too. Woo hoo!

Tony at Taste of Champaign

Hi everyone. I'm sorry for not being able to come to Matt's BBQ for Tom's graduation, Father's day, and Dad's bday. I've been in the process of moving but was fortunate to have Tony as a house guest. I took some pictures of the Game Truck and was even fortunate to go for a ride in it. I hope you all have a great time and look forward to seeing you all soon.

Tom Graduates,Dads Birthday,Fathers Day Party!

In honor of Thomas Andrew Hahns graduation and Fathers Day and Dads Birthday we will be having a party on Sunday. Everyone is invited. We will have a Barbecue starting at 3pm. Help spread the word. I would love it if Grandpa, Uncle Matt and Zuly and kids, Aunt Mary and Terry and Jo and Margaret, Uncle Tom, Uncle James and Aunt Lynn, Pete and Kristen, Jim, Dan and Sam, and Sage would be able to make it! Have a good rest of the week

Another talented relative in the news

My mom forwarded this article, featuring the work of Tom Hahn, historian extraordinaire!

Easter Party

At 1:00pm on Sunday there will be an Easter party at grandpa's house. I hope to see everyone there.

Some News!

Today Carleton is hosting the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference. Carleton hosts it every 10 or so years, so I feel pretty lucky to have been there today and to have had the chance to volunteer and to see some of the posters and presentations. The key note speaker, Dan Simons, was definitely my favorite talk of the day! His current institutional affiliation is the University of Illinois, but he was a Carleton alum! So, he did the MUPC twice as a Carleton undergrad! Anyway, I told a few people -- Dad, Jim, and Tony about how cool his talk was! Instead of saying anymore about it, I thought I'd show you some of the clips he showed us during his presentation.





I was cracking up for like 20 minutes after the second video! How can you not realize that?! There are also a bunch of studies where a participant will come in and they will be handed the consent form by someone on the other side of a counter and then that person will bend down to get something and a different person (of the same gender) will stand back up. A majority of the time people didn't even notice!

The talk was wonderful and got me really excited about senior comps, which we've already begun! My friend, Cari, and I will be doing our comps together, but instead of doing a "library comps" which is essentially a research paper, and instead of creating and executing an empirical study, we are going to create a 300 level psychology course. We'll still have the opportunity to learn about a topic that interests, but we'll be presenting it in a way that is not just a standard research paper! And it will work really well with my Ed Studies concentration! And instead of a normal presentation, we will hold a class session as our way of presenting comps! That's enough about psychology.

What has everyone else been up to lately?

What, no news?!?

Ok people. What's the deal? No one has news. All right, I'll go first:

- Ran 10 miles just now. Fixing on doing a marathon in Duluth in June.

-Well, that will happen after I get back from Australia in May

-I'll be in Australia for two weeks re: a conference and vacation.

-Next week I'm driving Tina Jr. back to Northfield, MN. Because I have a new car -- it is a Prius hybrid -- the most advanced car on the road.

-After I get back from dropping off Tina, I'll be in Philadelphia and Boston for the April 1 holiday.

-Then Tony and I and maybe Tom will be in New Orleans for a library conference, also in June.

Well, that's all I got.

- Jim

Urbana, IL

p.s. - well, also the iPhone book is out now. I just pitched another one about free apps, maybe I'll start writing after the marathon, if it gets commissioned and all. In the meanwhile there are three articles I'm finishing up before I leave for vacation.