After over 10 years of faithful service my 3 season Karrimor walking boots have died a death with multiple split stitching and the beginnings of several holes. Its time to buy a new pair but I've been stuck in with several options ( Read more... )

I went to costco to get beer and food supplies for tomorrow. All good, apart from it then taking 1hr 40 to get home from Liverpool. Gah!

...ooh, beer!

Now that I'm more or less back in working order, its time to get into shape ( Read more... )

I have a sudden nostalgic urge to play Shadowrun...

Lunch of chilli salami, olives, feta, Pie D'Angloys, cucumber, tomato and houmous. A nice benefit of working at home between hospital (where I just got discharged by the knee surgeon) and physio this afternoon.

The trip to Colchester went well. This morning was excellent and saw all the lab space and funding stuff sorted and plans made for my start there. The afternoon had one slightly weird meeting, where I may have said slightly the wrong thing. This may have been exaggerated by my thinking about it during the 5hr trek home!

We may just be about to start the experiment, after a 5hr delay. As it turns out, the last 3hrs may have been entirely due to a mis-communication about the settings of the beamline. Oh well...

SO, the flight was only 25 min late after a careful detour to avoid French airspace. A pleasant couple of hours around Zurich then here to the lab and the pleasant Hotel Hirschen. A good week beckons...

Off to Switzerland again tomorrow, presuming that the French general strike doesn't bugger up the flight. Shame I have to get up at 4am!

Update: Official reply has arrived. I'll be starting 1st March :)