A Paradocs Abroad

Life has been pretty busy since we returned from England on the 2nd of September.

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We moved into our new rental house that day, and it has worked out even better than we expected. The owners, M. & Mme. Balch, have been fantastically welcoming. They greeted us with the words "Bienvenue chez vous" and presented us with a cake and a bottle of cidre when we arrived. And when we went over to their house last week to drop off the rent cheque, they invited us in for an apératif, and we had a long chat.

Work on Susan's Strait of Georgia computer model has been all-comsuming. We cleaned up some bugs in the physics model, added silicon and flagellate phytoplankton to the biological model, refactored many routines, tuned the model (several times) against field data, and completed the runs and presentation slides for the EPOC 2006 conference that we are going to next week in Oregon.

So, blog-posts, photo-posts, cycling, and just about everything else about life outside the model has suffered. That's remedied now, with some new photos uploaded to the Flickr stream, a couple of recent posts, and some back-dated posts about things that happened back in August, like a bike race one Saturday night in Saint-Renan, and the Mildenhall Cycling
Rally in England.