May 18, 2012
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Oops, there goes another year. Chock full of significant stuff, that one, but still: blink of an eye.
There have been greetings and such. The tradition of transglobal singing upheld. Ian, who had to go up to Wales yesterday for a funeral, returned in time for a nice lunch, though I'm given to believe the main event will be dinner at some undisclosed location. Food and drink featuring heavily, as befits.
To celebrate the day, I have been studiously avoiding anything that looks too much like work and instead taken the opportunity to finish up another bit of GB dickery: Old Dark House. Yeah, whatever, but at least I'm enjoying myself. It beats job hunting/paper wrangling/unremunerated coding.
Not that I have anything against the latter, actually. Was up until the wee hours last night adding batch processing features to an ImageJ plugin to do a specific kind of feature identification in fluorescent microscope images -- someone else's images, of course -- and it felt gratifyingly productive.
That came after a pleasantly relaxed afternoon with Sam's tasty eggless banana cake and railing visitor Alan, then a lovely dinner with flying visitor Davide. I can definitely think of worse ways to spend one's birthday eve...
Posted by matt at May 18, 2012 3:52 PM