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Feeling a little blue
Saw off Kerri last night. She isn't comfortable with taking books overseas and releasing them, afraid that she'll be arrested for littering or something, so I miss out on a few exotic releases. Fair enough. Released a book at the airport departure lounge and kept my eyes on it all the way. Picked up by one of the staff members who, according to my daughter, looked very carefully at the Bookcrossing stuff and apparently got onto the site.
Uppsala is going to be pretty shitty for the next few days, according to the CNN weather site. The first day of her conference has a top of 8 degrees. And rain.
Cripes, but Uppsala in summer seems a lot like Canberra in winter. Except we could really really really use the rain.
The Qantas person gave her a window seat on the flight over, which had my daughter sighing at the thought of flying into London at dawn. I suspect the reality will be somewhat less romantic, but Mary's a bit of a dreamer. When we went over to New Zealand, Mary and I had our heads out of the window on opposite sides of the plane a lot of the time. Mary was looking out for whale spouts, probably a bit hard to see from several thousand metres, but then again I was doing exactly the same thing while we were low enough to see any marine activity.
Most of the flight will be in darkness anyway. I hope she doesn't get too jetlagged.
We'll have a pork roast while she's away. Usually don't have pork because Kerri doesn't like it, but I love it, Mary will tolerate it, and John will eat just about anything that is held close to his mouth. And the cats and dog line up looking anxious for titbits.
Having a blast getting back into VB.NET and ADO.NET. Been a while. Wrote a little program to seperate those pilot names into surname and initials, which worked well once I worked out the index base. Is the first character in a string the first or the zeroth? Anyway, it worked a treat. Able to pull data out of a table OK, just can't seem to write back the changes. There's more to this data adapter stuff than meets the eye, obviously.
Uppsala is going to be pretty shitty for the next few days, according to the CNN weather site. The first day of her conference has a top of 8 degrees. And rain.
Cripes, but Uppsala in summer seems a lot like Canberra in winter. Except we could really really really use the rain.
The Qantas person gave her a window seat on the flight over, which had my daughter sighing at the thought of flying into London at dawn. I suspect the reality will be somewhat less romantic, but Mary's a bit of a dreamer. When we went over to New Zealand, Mary and I had our heads out of the window on opposite sides of the plane a lot of the time. Mary was looking out for whale spouts, probably a bit hard to see from several thousand metres, but then again I was doing exactly the same thing while we were low enough to see any marine activity.
Most of the flight will be in darkness anyway. I hope she doesn't get too jetlagged.
We'll have a pork roast while she's away. Usually don't have pork because Kerri doesn't like it, but I love it, Mary will tolerate it, and John will eat just about anything that is held close to his mouth. And the cats and dog line up looking anxious for titbits.
Having a blast getting back into VB.NET and ADO.NET. Been a while. Wrote a little program to seperate those pilot names into surname and initials, which worked well once I worked out the index base. Is the first character in a string the first or the zeroth? Anyway, it worked a treat. Able to pull data out of a table OK, just can't seem to write back the changes. There's more to this data adapter stuff than meets the eye, obviously.