An Update

Sorry it's been a few weeks since my last update.  I haven't been up to much worth mentioning.  The ankle I twisted at Edinburgh airport on my way home (the day after Christmas) has been taking forever to fully heal.  The fact that I pretty much have to walk on it every day probably hasn't helped.  Neither has the fact that most days I have a ~20-pound backpack on my back for at least part of those walks.  So needless to say, I just haven't been doing that much that you are likely to find interesting.  So here's a few bullet points:

• I got a taste of how fast weather can change here on Friday.  In the morning it was cold, clear, and so bright I probably should have worn by sunglasses.  Around 1pm we had a front move through the city from West to East that brought strong winds blowing so much snow it was like someone was drawing white lines across the sky.  After about an hour, that stopped and it went back to being fairly clear.  Then around 2:30 another front with another load of snow and wind blew through, and it was gone again after an hour or so.  None of the snow stuck, reinforcing what I've been told is the warmest winter on record since the 1800's.  But we have had a near-constant "sprinkle" of occasional snow-flakes coming down since Friday.  And even a bit of small hail.  So there is definitely still some cold air up over the city.  Yahoo (who have not been generally a good source of weather predictions) is predicting snow and/or rain Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this coming week, so who knows, we might have a bit of a snowy winter after all.
• I managed to the find a CD of a Polish post-rock band I had heard on a podcast and liked.  I'm listening to it now.  I had hoped CD's would be cheaper here, but they are not.  It seems the music labels want to get their money no matter what.  Unfortunately, the band is not on iTunes or Amazon as a digital download, so I have a physical CD to carry around.  On the plus side, at least I'm not paying the cost of an "Import" CD on Amazon, so the album was cheaper.  I may post some more info on them in another post.
• I'm hoping to take a short trip somewhere in Europe sometime in February, as I'll need to use up at least a few more vacation days by then.  Berlin is close, but if anyone has any other suggestions, let me know.
• If anyone has anything they want me to blog about, let me know.  I have some more ideas, but some of them are going to have to wait until Summer probably as they are things that might work best with some pictures.

I've got a few other things I may post about later in the week.  And I'll see about a few more "New Foods" as well.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.