Got back to Ontario in the early hours of the 28th. Two weeks is the longest I've ever been away from work and most thing held together in my absence, with the exception of a computer malware that may have somehow erased some lab software off one of our computers. It feels strange to be back in familiar surroundings, if that makes any sense ( Read more... )

It's cold out. I had been complaining recently about the weather being hot and smoggy, but the past few days we've had that rainy, windy weather that usually takes away summer until next year ( Read more... )

As I mentioned previously, it is bitter cold here. I wish I had brough a camera with me when I walked to work this morning. When I was walking over the bridge, the air was so cold that a kind of white, swirling mist was rising up off the parts of the river not covered in ice. A cluster of Canada Geese, huddled together along the river edge with ( Read more... )

I took yesterday off as a sick day. I've had a cold developing since last tuesday, which I seemed to be managing ok until monday night. I couldn't get to sleep becuase every few minutes I'd get a tickle in the throat and start coughing, and the cough medicines didn't help that much. A few years ago I went for 4 or 5 nights like that, and came into ( Read more... )

It's been a miserable morning out - cold, just above feezing, and rainy. My feet and socks got soaked this morning when walking in to work ( Read more... )