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We have been wanting to organize the workshop in the basement of this house every since we moved in, which was a year ago in November. However, other things kept falling higher on the priority list. Until today. Today we finally built the last few shelves we needed and did some major re-arranging of stuff. It is still not perfect, but it is looking ever so much better, and it will be so much easier to do stuff in there. I particularly like the part where the long boards are no longer lying on the floor in the way, but instead are across the top of the shelves. What a nice welcome home after being out of town for most of this year.
Other nice reasons to be home: the weather! While it was warm here (above freezing) for the first half of the week, it has cooled down to a lovely -15 C, and there was a bit of fresh snow, so when I arrived last night the world was beautiful, and I am so happy to be home after so many days down south where there was no snow at all, but plenty of rain.
The geology conference was nice though, and both of my talks went well. I did the first talk (based on my PhD research) as the first speaker of the morning on the first morning of the conference. My second talk (based on the research I have been doing here at LTU) at 14:00 on Friday, so not the last talk, but well into the conference winding down. I am glad that one was so late in the conference, because that made it possible for me to do some major changes to my talk on Thursday--I replaced the sets of still photos of my geological models with movies that show the models by rotating them so that we can see them on all sides. Much spiffier!
Tomorrow our folk dance sessions start up again after the winter break, and I am looking forward to that, too.
I nearly forgot--another highlight of being home--I came home to a lovely hand-made card from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aelfgyfu in my mail box. It was so pretty and fun (some fashionable Penguins wearing wigs from the 17th Century enjoying a tea party under the Aurora) that I have put it up on my wall, where I will be able to enjoy it year round. (yup, me, who never puts art on the walls insisted on it)
Other nice reasons to be home: the weather! While it was warm here (above freezing) for the first half of the week, it has cooled down to a lovely -15 C, and there was a bit of fresh snow, so when I arrived last night the world was beautiful, and I am so happy to be home after so many days down south where there was no snow at all, but plenty of rain.
The geology conference was nice though, and both of my talks went well. I did the first talk (based on my PhD research) as the first speaker of the morning on the first morning of the conference. My second talk (based on the research I have been doing here at LTU) at 14:00 on Friday, so not the last talk, but well into the conference winding down. I am glad that one was so late in the conference, because that made it possible for me to do some major changes to my talk on Thursday--I replaced the sets of still photos of my geological models with movies that show the models by rotating them so that we can see them on all sides. Much spiffier!
Tomorrow our folk dance sessions start up again after the winter break, and I am looking forward to that, too.
I nearly forgot--another highlight of being home--I came home to a lovely hand-made card from
aelfgyfu in my mail box. It was so pretty and fun (some fashionable Penguins wearing wigs from the 17th Century enjoying a tea party under the Aurora) that I have put it up on my wall, where I will be able to enjoy it year round. (yup, me, who never puts art on the walls insisted on it)