europeadventure.ca

Camera

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT

Taken

2007-04-07 09:55:10

Exposure

1/200

Aperture

f/5.6

ISO

100

Well, I'm starting to recover now after an intense, three day driving trip to Scotland. Six of us decided that as a last celebration of our program we should take a trip together. It was a fun time, and I know everyone enjoyed themselves. I have written up a three page Scottish adventure article which has some photos in it. That will have to suffice until I get the rest of my photos up hopefully later this week.

Camera

NIKON E5600

Taken

2007-04-11 15:29:51

Exposure

10/730

Aperture

f/4.9

ISO

50

Even now the post-project microadventure is drawing to a close. As of yesterday, my project term colleagues have all left and while I plan one more visit to Reading before I go, there isn't much time left before I return to Canada. Not that everything stops when I get home, quite the opposite, but it does get a fair bit colder. :)

Today however, I plan to take advantage of my London location and go visit the British Museum. After that, I may wander around downtown somewhere, maybe pay a visit to the Apple Store. At least I am well rested, yesterday for some reason I couldn't stop falling asleep. And because of that, for the first time in as long as I can remember, I was asleep last night before midnight. It was weird.

With about 12 hours left until my flight back to Canada, I am currently writing the final chapter for this adventure. Not to say that there won't be other adventures in the future, but those will be other stories. There will hopefully be one encore to this adventure come July, but that section is still being story-boarded.

The past couple of days have been pretty subdued, although today I did go in for some treatments at the spa—always relaxing. Now I have all of my stuff packed into two suitcases, and I hope that everything makes the flight tomorrow. It is a direct flight which means minimal man-handling of my baggage, but one never knows. Actually if I can check the baggage in without it being overweight I would be satisfied. I've already checked in online, so hopefully that will speed things up tomorrow at the airport. I'm getting a drive there and it will be a bit early, which I always like because if I get rushed I get stressed and warm, and I start to sweat, and that isn't something anyone wants.

The next time I write I will be on the "other side of the pond."

Well, I made it home safe and sound along with all of my luggage, so I guess I should be happy. The weather here is a lot colder than London but I was expecting that. I guess it isn't time to retire my winter wardrobe just yet. I'm off to bed to take care of this jet lag. Cheers.

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It is my plan to see if Coda is up to the challenge and can oust me from my routine, with enough force to see me pay the $70 USD price tag for upgrading from Transmit. Currently I'm pretty entrenched with TextMate, Camino and Transmit, but I'm always willing to give something new a try. I will be using it to work on the major revisions I am doing to my other website, along with any odd jobs that I need to do in the next couple of weeks until my trial is over. There are a few things that I like already about it, like the ability to work on my local copy of the site and mark files as requiring publishing. However, if need be, you can edit your remote files directly online. I will discuss the features and other benefits once I have finished with my trial.