Before heading to Italy at the beginning of the month I kind of wished the trip wasn't on the calendar, since we were having beautiful winter weather, and with C. just having moved in, there would be lots to do at home. As it turned out that beautiful winter weather lasted just till it was time to come home, and then we had a couple of weeks with ( Read more... )

Monday: A walk in the morning, followed by taking the train home from Narvik (seven hours). The first half of the trip I had a delightful conversation with a Scottish woman on her way to Kiruna. Got home just before 18:00 and spent several hours shoveling the snow that had accumulated while we were out of town (lord_kjar was in Göteborg helping C. pack up ( Read more... )

I happened to glance at FB today at the right time to see a post from northernotter about the talk she will be doing on her hand-woven reproduction of the Skjoldehamn find next weekend. Clicking on the link reveals that the other speaker will be Lise Bender Jørgensen, who has published so many books on archaeological textiles. Of course I have to go ( Read more... )

After leaving the gym today I drove one of the girls over to the larger grocery store near which she lives. I had been considering heading over there anyway, since the little store near the uni does carry Turkish yoghurt, but it doesn't carry the ecological (or organic, if you live in the states) variety. The fact that she would benefit from a ( Read more... )

I have four hours before time for the Frostheim meeting, which I will attend on my way to the airport to fly to Göteborg for the weekend. I ought to be using that time to get the house cleaned up so that my future self will want to come to it again. I am sitting at the computer. With luck this won't take long and the housework will still get done ( Read more... )

Thursday: Attend the normal SCA/Frostheim gathering at the university campus at 18:00. Leave there and drive to K & H's house just south of Umeå (a nearly 4 hour drive, so we will be getting there kind of late ( Read more... )

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Work this week wasn't expected to be easy--lasers, at least the kind we have, are meant to be used regularly, and really need to be fired every two weeks in order to stay in prime working condition. I have just had two weeks off of work, which means that the laser wasn't fired during that time. So it wasn't surprising that I needed to do a gas ( Read more... )

I just saw a link to a great article on the Known World Dance Event in Germany we recently attended. lord_kjar and I even show up in the background of one of the photos dancing in the streets ( Read more... )

Back in November, when the funding was approved for me to do the trip to Australia in February for a one week conference, followed by a week of training at the CODES LA-ICP-MS laboratory I sent in an application for a new Australian passport. My old one hadn't expired--it still had several years left. However, it was in the old spelling of my name ( Read more... )