I got a last minute assignment this morning to cover the Indiana state superintendent, who was visiting an Evansville high school to check out the school corporation's new netbook program. Beginning this year, all high school students were rented the small laptops and will use them in class for various interactive assignments.

It made for a busy morning: I wrote the story, shot and edited a short video and also took a few photos. The one on the left and one more I took were used as the centerpiece art on A4.

I've brying to do more videos lately. I recently filed one on a local kid who dropped a message in a bottle off the coast of Florida and then, a year-and-a-half later, got a letter from a boy in the Netherlands who found it. And last week, when a delegation of residents from Evansville's Japanese sister city came to town, I did a video and story on them.

I had to rush out this morning to cover a massive fire that destroyed the Tin Fish restaurant at Marina Pointe overnight.

I always check the TV station Web sites as soon as I get up and I immediately knew I'd have to rush out to get on scene. By the time I did, the fire was mostly extinguished, but they were still fighting lingering hot spots. I shot the above photo and also shot and edited a quick video.

Luckily, no one was inside when the fire started and there were no injuries. It felt strange to see the building in ruins, though, as I had just eaten there for the first time when family came to visit a few weeks back. I guess it's good we did so while we had the chance.