I am stuck with one of my four-monthly (or perhaps three-monthly) stress headaches.  It appears about 12 to 24 hours after I start consciously worrying about some or other aspect of my life.  Well, 99% of the time it is about deadlines.  I happen to know what is bothering my head this time:  I have a ton of work to do before I leave Finland, but I really want to spend my time doing something else altogether.

The headache is not getting worse, but it is not getting better either. However, I feel pretty inspired to do some work:  today was a good day in many respects.  I have a clear idea of where our open source research is going, I can’t wait to complete the measurements for the model checking research, I know how I want to complete my studies, students have written exams that need to be marked and that I want to mark, etc.  I hope to be up and at it early tomorrow morning, but for now I’m going home to sleep the headache off.

Perhaps the real trigger for my upbeat feelings is that Adobe responded in record time and I now have PhotoShop and a couple of their other brilliant programs installed on the Mac.  I’m sure there won’t be enough time to learn to use all of them properly or to spend the time needed on the photo’s I have already taken, but it is good to know that that task (buying & installing PhotoShop)  has been completed and it is exciting to have all this software to explore.