Please excuse the silence.

What happened? Well, after waiting in Edinburgh for a mail-order package, I zipped off to mum's for Christmas. Well, I say zipped, I seem to get all the late trains these days. That aside, I offed there for xmas with the family, fairly busy table for xmas dinner this year, even the garden table got in on the action.

Nice seeing people, relaxing a bit and not thinking about things. Note to self: get hold of Metropolis (1927) some time, although it's unfortunately not as cheap as the marvelous unrelated Metropolis (2001) (Anime). Read some more of my current novel (on book two of A Scots Quair), which I think I'll continue tonight, even though the mucker's lost its bookmark.

A bit after xmas, it was back to Edinburgh, where Liz+Adam and then Andrew were coming. Good to see them again, we had a fairly laid-back time, including staying in for Hogmanay watching movies. Which was just as well given the cancellation. Apart from the less relaxing shopping we didn't do anything too strenuous, apart from the enjoyable walk up Arthur's Seat with Andrew and Adam. After getting to the top and back, Adam (4) was still eager to go visit the lake and watch the birds, though by that time the day and clouds were drawing in. I look forward to some more walking with both of them.

Just starting to get back into uni. On this front, my paper for Trends in Functional Programming was accepted (yay!), so I should be making a couple of changes to that and returning it in the next couple of days. Lots of other things to be doing, many things to be reading about, and soon some taught courses to attend (though not overly many). Algorithmic game theory looks interesting, as well as some of the courses which will run later in the term. Enough to be busy with...

I'm sure I missed 1,000,001 things there, so I'll be seeing you soon.