The long silence...

...of the thesis is, hopefully, over. It was a crazy month, but now the presentation is complete and the paper is almost complete.

I'm a little tired of the project, but that might just be my ADD talking. This week, it's off to Chicago for an all too brief visit. When we return, the paper will get polished off and then it will be time to start planning the next adventure: which may or may not be a big construction project here at whatsgrowing HQ.

Here's some recent, non-thesis happenings:

• Renewed correspondance with my Lanzhou interpreter. Who is now in Alberta! How'd that happen?
• Thanksgiving with the father-in-law at the neighbors was lovely. And perhaps made a couple new friends. If Eugene keeps up, it might become home.
• We've been having weekly advent wreath lightings here with the alterna-Catholics. I'm flummoxed at how to proceed with them.
• Managed to prime the garage door yesterday. But today was too wet to apply color.