It’s been a pleasant two week vacation.  Caught a train and a bus down to Heathrow on the 22nd, and crossed the Atlantic courtesy of British Airways after staring at an Asus EEE 700 series in Dixons (though I’ll wait for the 900 series with the bigger screen and 20 GB SSD).  Did my usual trick of pushing how late I stayed up, with the intent of resetting my body clock and avoiding jet-lag (which worked).  Spent the next few days imaging all of the LAN PCs for UberCon, and catching up on a bit of sleep.  UberCon ran from the 25th to the 27th, where I had the pleasure of being an attendee for once, instead of a staff member – though I still did staff-like stuff since I knew the answers.  Note to self, never go behind the desks at registration or help-desk unless I want to work.

Didn’t shoot too many photos, but got something like 30 of Mr. T. Zahn, so I’ll be checking those in Lightroom when I get home.  Hopefully there’s at least one good one we can use on the UberCon site.  I also need to get his contact details to see if he minds if I use them in my personal (online) portfolio.  Missed the tear-down of the convention by being a lazy sod and sitting in my room reading.  However, I helped pack the truck for the trip to the con, so I think I’m excused.

MJ brought two of my boxes of books.  I know where one is right now, just need to find the other one and see how many books I can fit in my checked luggage.  I’ll be able to put some in my carry-on too, as I don’t need to be quite as cautious about what goes in my checked luggage this time (for the flight out I had all the camera gear in the carry-on).

Spent several days this week mowing Kevin’s acre of land, after I fixed one of his lawnmowers and the weed-whacker.  The weed-whacker had a combustion chamber and air filter that were full of water, and the spark was all gummed up.  A bit of shaking and leaving in the sun dried the filter and chamber, and a bit of gasoline and sandpaper fixed the spark.  Presto, working weed-whacker.  MJ came down Tuesday evening, and we’ve been having good chats, working on the garden beds and just generally been the good friends that we are.

Didn’t manage to run the BBS at UberCon, but that’s life.  I should have it up and running on the Avatar game host in the next week or so.

Boss has kindly said I don’t have to be on call until Tuesday, which is good – I could do Monday night, but I’m bound to be jet-lagged (my trick doesn’t work so well when going forwards in time zones).  So, I get back to the UK tomorrow morning, and I’ll be back at work the next day.  Pity that, I was just starting to relax properly.