Lots of work and great ideas

Such are the times when you have quite a lot of work to do but the ideas for new projects and developments are flowing thus adding to the work load. This is one of those times! 4 weeks from home and I thought this would be a nice wind-down time but there's only a few times I can recall being this busy during the course of the last year. However, that's not a bad thing! This week I have a 1 hr lecture to deliver on the Caledonian Orogeny and a orogenic plateau that doesn't really exist any more (that's Friday), I have a presentation on the Hurricane Fault to finalise, Seismic Data Processing hmwk to finish/start along with the class project. Then there's F1 in Primary Schools! Something's invigorated me this week to start thinking seriously about that again after my 8 month sabatical with very little news. During those months, the challenge pops into my head and I note down a few ideas - the list and possibilities have now become quite extensive - least of all rejuvenating the website with Tim, producing a proper demo CD and organising the race-day this June. These are exciting times for the competition and it's encouraging to have the enthusiastic support of a select group of friends back in the UK to carry on developing our brain-child. I'll be setting up this week, guys, an informal email network between us all so we can communicate efficiently as a group.

So indeed it is only 4 weeks 'til i arrive back in the UK. It's corny but there's a countdown timer at the top of my blog. Meh, why not!

And finally, some news from Austria. A thief broke into the headquaters of a leading political party and stole a number of laptops by crawling through a mail-flap! In reporting to the police, a spokesman said the thief must have been pretty small to fit through the 35cm x 35cm hole. That certainly rules out most Americans then! Ha ha, perhaps that's a little unfair - it was quite a small hole! Also briefly some news from Japan. A inter-school baseball match turned into a cricket score farce as one team concede 66 runs in 2 innings! For all those not familiar with baseball, conceeding more than 2 per-innings is considered pretty bad professionally. The coach of the losing team pleaded for the game to be abandoned and eventually the winners were awarded a more respectable 9-0 scoreline.

Laters!