Today was reasonably productive--I managed to finish putting away everything from the event, did four loads of laundry, and spent a fair bit of time on projects ( Read more... )

This morning I completed the last major task for my report: burning the dvd with the data, reports, 3D model, and geochem graphs, and packaged it up in a box along with the samples and paper copies of the reports--all ready to turn in to my colleagues at the mine. Yes, it would also be nice to do a paper for publication, but that doesn't need to ( Read more... )

...and this is a good thing, because I have ever so much I need to do for work! I have deadlines of 1 November for both an abstract for a January conference and a grant proposal and I really want to be playing with my 3D models now that I have half again as much data to work with as I had last week AND I finally have the structural geology model ( 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... )

Oops--more than a week since last I checked in here. I know that I have often thought of typing up our adventures (mostly in the lines of home improvement), during that week, but, somehow, I have been just busy enough that it hasn't happened ( Read more... )

I have been working from home for the past couple of weeks, and the first handful of days I was very, very productive and worked longish hours, but yesterday and the day before I accomplished more in the kitchen in the way of making yummy things to eat than I did at the computer doing uni work. Late last night it occurred to me that I really ought ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about home ownership is the part about "do whatever you want". Granted, sometimes, for budget reasons, one chooses a slightly different "want" that choice #1. I would love a hobbit hole. But I don't need one. But I think round doors into the side of a hill are totally cool. Root cellars are cool too (literally, also). ( Read more... )

As one might expect for a country which extends so far to the north, midsummer is a rather important holiday. The holiday itself was Friday, the 21st, Midsommarafton. We spent it, as we have every year since I arrived in Sweden (this is my third midsummer here!) with the folk music/dance community. The day started with a gathering at the ( Read more... )