Not much blogging lately. Mostly working. But in the middle of all that working was a nice trip to a warm Mediterranean country for a conference. And then a week of touring around with Sugar Mama in wonderful cities with great coffee and food.

In addition to a nice time touring around, my talk at the conference went well, too. My first in a conference environment. Met lots of people working on intersecting problems, made some good contacts, and even got to refresh my knowledge of the romance language I studied in college.

It's nice to get out of town once in awhile. I feel very relaxed now that I'm back. This semester comes with quite a bit of work, but for some odd reason taking a break right at the start was perfect. Any restlessness got worked out, I hardly thought about my research while in Europe, and now I'm ready to "bust a move". Maybe even a couple. Which probably means I shouldn't be blogging....