Back from a week of conferenceness. It was a good time, though definitely mentally exhausting ( Read more... )

Back home. The house is freezing. We had a good trip (for the most part anyway), but it is nice to be back. Well, mostly it's nice to be off the train. :p Though it was a remarkably smooth train ride this year. There were almost no delays in either direction! That's almost unheard of around Christmas ( Read more... )

Look at me finally posting the rest of my pictures from Austria! You know, that place I went in July? :p Next up: Polaris and Fan Expo! :p

( Pictures of Graz )

Good weekend in Toronto, even if Vicki was unfortuanately working most of it. We had fun on Friday night though! We were left to our own devices on Saturday, so we went shopping. The TTC Daypass is brilliant. On Saturday or Sunday Ryan and I can both travel on one, which costs the same as four tokens. So we can travel as much as we want for what we ( Read more... )

We got off to a bit start yesterday because it took forever to get Kim's youngest out of bed. But we eventually made it downtown to continue our walking tour of Vienna. We walked by the Imperial Palace, the Parliament Buildings and the university. We also went to the Albertina, which is an art gallery with an impressive Impressionist collection. ( Read more... )

They were having electrical difficulties with our plane, so we were about two hours late leaving Toronto. Fortunately, they took us OFF the plane pretty early on, since one of the difficulties they were having was with the air conditioning and the plane was pretty miserable.. The pilot had never seen a problem quite like it before. But they did ( Read more... )

So, the talk went pretty decently, I think. I got a few good questions, including one I had to ask the guy to take me through slowly afterwards (on the computational stuff ( Read more... )

Got a ton of great data in Ottawa. Still tired from catching a 5:40 AM train yesterday. Still trying to get receipt out of motel since the front desk wasn't open until 7 AM. What the frak.

Finally saw End of Time Part II last night.

( Spoilers! )

Got to London 10 PM. PIcked up samples at lab 11 PM. Repacked. Bed now. Train to Ottawa at 8 AM.

Whee, free wifi on the train. It's free because the connection is... less than awesome, but it's getting the job done ( Read more... )