Off to Holland
I’m currently hanging out at my gate in Pearson airport. In a couple hours I’ll be on my way to Paris and tomorrow morning I’ll catch my connecting flight to Amsterdam and then I take the train to Utrecht to see Jasna’s sister, Ana, and her husband, Andre.
Jasna and I aren’t very good with separation, though I think this time went better than most. It could be that it’s a shorter separation this time — five days, in contrast to Jasna’s recent two-month trip — or that we’re too tired from last night’s Hallowe’en party to get as worked up. Maybe we’re just getting better at it, though. It’s not like no tears were shed, but I think we did relatively well.
Unfortunately today my camera battery decided to crap out on me. The upside to this is Jasna lent me her (very awesome) DSLR camera for the trip. I’ll try to keep pictures of blondes down to a minimum. Mostly I’m excited to see Ana and Andre, but I think they’ll be busy most of the time, so I’ll probably venture into Amsterdam at least once to entertain myself. I brought the camera cable with me, so watch my photo gallery in the next day or two for pictures to start appearing.
The conference — and my presentation there — I haven’t thought a whole lot about yet. I’ll have to disappear to Eindhoven, which I think is only about half an hour from Utrecht — but then again maybe everything’s half an hour away from everything in the Netherlands, who knows — and see what’s going on there. I’m fairly excited to see what FOPARA ends up being like since this is the first year the workshop’s being done. I’m especially excited to see the Hume project people, like Kevin Hammond, since I’ve never met any.
I should say there’s still a lot of work that’s going on behind the scenes, work even on what I’m going to present to FOPARA. While I was in Calgary we decided to put in a new typing system based on bunched logics which deals elegantly with a lot of the problems with peeks that we’ve been sorting out in Pola, plus some new features.