Starting back up

Hi all,

I know something relatively close to eternity has passed since I last put something up in here, but with the usual increase of good intentions towards the end of the year (and mostly towards the start of a new year), stay tuned because I'll be doing my best to get things going again on a slightly more regular basis.

There are a couple of contradictory reasons for the recent inactivity. One of these is that I've pretty much settled in Morgantown and don't really discover too many new & noteworthy things to write about anymore. Another part is that I've been travelling throughout November (Australia) and a bit in early December (Socorro, New Mexico). While this might imply something to write about, it also means that I've been busy catching up on work, laundry, grocery-shopping and - mostly - sleep.

Now luckily I've decided to hibernate in Morgantown over Christmas and New Year, so all that catching up is (just about) done now. Also, during my travels I've come to realise that it really is hard to keep up with what everyone is doing and - something which will become much worse over the coming few years - where all my friends are located geographically as well as professionally. So short of Facebook, it's probably a good idea to keep some record of what's happening and where I'll be.

(I very nearly got convinced to finally succumb to the social pressure to joing Facebook, but the fact that the few publically available internet-spots in Sydney airport were practically continuously hogged by people stupidly, uselessly and totally-oblivious-to-anyone-else-anywhere-around-ly browsing through Facebook pictures (you know how I dislike pictures anyway. Just imagine how I dislike them when they stand between me and Gmail!), that fact got me totally turned off again. So bad luck Facebook: your addictive endorphins (or whatever substitute you might use) have not caught me even this time.)

Anyway. I'm sorry for that longish tangent.

For now: a belatedly Merry Christmas (whatever religion you might have) and all the best for 2010!