I’m still busy at the workshop. I had thought that I could perhaps nap a little during the boring talks, and work merrily at night. Instead I stay awake because the talks are really quite interesting, and I come home and sleep. Except tonight, when I had to prepare my own presentation for tomorrow. This [...]
First day of the conference went well. I managed to stay awake despite only four hours of sleep last night. Usually I find conferences stimulating: as the speakers tell their story, many new ideas occur to me and I fill up a couple of pages of notes with things I’m going to try when the [...]
Another marathon session of paper writing. I am very tired and a little cluster headache is trying to form at the top of my head. Tomorrow is the start of the ICSE warmup workshop and IFIP summer school. I have been too busy to look forward to it, but it will be nice to meet [...]
No posting yesterday. Broke my perfect attendance record. The reason is clear: a break in my routine. I was working through the night towards a strict 10am deadline. Lots of pressure and I didn’t take my scheduled breaks. Oh well, I need to reestablish the pattern. I also wasn’t exercising according to my schedule, but [...]
It is difficult to choose appropriate titles for some of these posts because my thoughts wander from topic to topic. I’ve been thinking again about my little stoneage tribe that I use as a model for social, political, and economic problems. But let me start at the beginning. First, my car was returned today. (They [...]
My car went in for repairs yesterday and hopefully I get it back by tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime I feel slightly vulnerable because I cannot really go anywhere. My mountain bike needs a good dusting and I’ll probably have to do that tomorrow to fetch the car. But I’ve always been a poor cyclist [...]
Conditions: 20°, overcast Time: 19:20 Today I cheated: I incorporated my “walk” into a trip to the grocery store. The pace was not as intense as usual and I experienced no pain of any kind. To compensate, the walking part of the trip took 35 minutes, so I think I’ll forgive myself. Just one more [...]
I know that there is a new movie about teenage vampires, but I have not seen it. In fact, I do not even know the title. I’m bound to see at at some point, and I hope it is good. I like good vampire movies. It is odd that the idea of vampires is so [...]
I had dinner with Jan and Arnold tonight and we talked a little about transport in Cape Town. I’m not in-the-know at all: my life moves in a narrow orbit. But they are a little better informed. Of course, next year the football world cup is coming to South Africa, but over the longer term [...]
Conditions: 23°, clear skies, a little windy Time: 18:20 BMI: 32.19 Calve muscles really hurt. Badly. Almost had to stop, but I didn’t. Perhaps the problem was that I started out through the newly discovered park path, which has a solid but gravelly surface.