Dirac Angestun Gesept

It turns out that January 7 is my “blogiversary” (eugh, what a terrible word), though I’m 23 hours early for the exact time of my first post.

So, looking forward at what I hope to be posting this year:

Con reports for Arisia and Boskone, at a minimum. I’m probably also going to do Vericon as well, since it’s even closer than the other two in-town cons, and I’m thinking about one out-of-town con. The current leading candidate for that is Minicon, though I’m open to other must-go suggestions. No Worldcon this year, though NASFiC might be doable.

A conference report from at least one USENIX conference (LISA by preference).

Book logging is something I’d like to start doing, though I probably won’t post about every re-read. Still, I’m going through enough books that I can probably get a steady stream of posts that way, which will help me keep current on other stuff too by keeping me in the habit of posting.

I’m really liking MarsEdit, though I should have been smart enough to just register it along with NetNewsWire 2.0 (or just bought a license for 1.0.8) back when I bought that, since it would have been cheaper.

I haven’t been blogging much for the past couple weeks; the holidays, and digging out from ‘em, has slowed me down.

A quick recap of the interesting bits:

We went to Vancouver, BC for the holidays, on the grounds that it sounded like more fun than Cleveland and allowed for my sister-in-law and her SO to drive up from Seattle.

Travel as always had its low points: we got to wait for our delayed BOS-YOW (Ottawa) flight in a boring gate area with no easily reachable power outlet. We arrived at YOW, cleared Canadian immigration and customs, found the transfer baggage desk closed and had to recheck the bags at the main counter, which had a long line…but the YOW-YVR (Vancouver) flight was running late and we had plenty of time anyway. The Ottawa airport is nice and new and has WiFi, which for the moment at least was free as well, making the wait not too bad.

Vancouver was neat, since I hadn’t been there in about 20 years. I was also able to pick up a couple Corrs DVDs I’d wanted that have finally shown up in Region 1 NTSC, even though the weak US dollar made them not as cheap as I would have preferred. I do wish we’d had more time there…we’ll just have to go back.

The flight back connected through Toronto, which meant we got to change terminals on the bus and then walk to the US borderpreclearance area, which judging from the length of the walk is actually in Buffalo. The last flight leg was uneventful and arrived early, which would have been more useful had the car service not screwed up and thought our reservation was for the next day. Sigh. Cab it was, then, and off home.

Then, of course, to catch up on the backlog of email and such at work. At least it’s been a pretty quiet week, so catching up hasn’t been too bad. I could do without the snow-turned-to-slush though.