Maledictions!

[fivemack]

This is my third attempt to post this; the home wireless network keeps going down and losing the post. And I'm frustrated from repeated failed attempts to remove the background from a picture of a cute pre-Columbian "stirrup cup in the shape of a frog" using the GIMP, still queasy from the turbulence that rocked the plane on landing and made me sick all over the (thankfully un-occupied) seat next to mine, and of course jet-lagged.

England is thirty degrees warmer than Montreal, but doesn't feel it: I'm five hundred miles north of where I was yesterday, and the lower angle of the sun - the dark-grey mornings and the early evenings - is surprisingly perceptible and gloom-inducing.

My software for producing panoramic images is on the other computer; but I've had a first look through the photos, producing this picture of zorinth. None of rysmiel or papersky, I'm afraid; and the ones zorinth took of me are unusably glum even with the furry hat.

Back to work tomorrow, though at least there's a weekend to follow. Maybe I can take advantage of the jet-lag, get in to work at 4am and accumulate flexi-time by the bucket-load ...