While I was too busy to check blogs due to travel to Known World Dance and Double Wars, they have published the call for papers for the European Textile Forum. While I haven't made it to one of these since moving to Sweden (darn finances getting in the way of fun stuff, anyway), the ones I attended while living in Italy were, without a doubt, the ( Read more... )

Today's pre-conference short-course was on Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS).

The first half of the day was done by the guy at UTAS/CODES who has been doing lots of publications on using LA-ICP-MS for geological questions, and has specialized in the kind of projects we want to do at LTU. He focused his talk ( Read more... )

The conference in Denmark this weekend went well, though it seems perhaps a bit silly to spend so much time in transit for such a short time on site. Flew down Saturday afternoon, and home Sunday evening. Ah well, that is as much time as I was willing to spend away from home ( Read more... )

The conference in Denmark this weekend went well, though it seems perhaps a bit silly to spend so much time in transit for such a short time on site. Ah well, that is as much time as I was willing to spend away from home ( Read more... )

Just like every other holiday in Sweden, Midsummer is celebrated on Midsummer Eve, not the day itself. However, in our case the day started the day before that. On Thursday one of our (exchange student) friends from choir, came over for dinner for one last visit before he returns to Germany next week, and then we took him with us to the park in ( Read more... )

They have announced the dates for this years European Textile Forum. This year they are trying 3 to 9 November because a number of people had said that September had too many other activities of interest to people with interest in textiles and/or archaeology and/or historical reenactment. I really, really enjoyed the 2009 and 2010 Textile Forums, ( Read more... )

We have been wanting to organize the workshop in the basement of this house every since we moved in, which was a year ago in November. However, other things kept falling higher on the priority list. Until today. Today we finally built the last few shelves we needed and did some major re-arranging of stuff. It is still not perfect, but it is ( Read more... )

I am delighted to report that the weather has taken a major turn for the better. Instead of those dreadful days of +3 C we had for most of Christmas week, I am delighted to report that the weather has taken a major turn for the better. Instead of those dreadful days of +3 C we had for most of Christmas week, which meant huge amounts of snow melting ( Read more... )

Not that I was without internet, mind you--I have a smart phone, and a tablet (wi-fi only), but I have hardly touched a real computer since my last post, which was sometime before I departed for the conference, so if I am going to try to catch up on what has been happening, I had probably better start with that ( Read more... )

There is a huge international geochemistry conference that I have heard of, but never attended. I got an email today telling me that this year it will be in Florence, Italy, in August. The location/month alone had me thinking "nope", but I clicked on the link anyway. In the list of workshops they are having was one metamorphic which sounded really ( Read more... )