Back in the Saddle

I'm back at Fermilab. My Christmas break was fantastic -- thanks to everyone who came from hundreds or thousands of miles! This was the first time that both the Heron and Watts/Chalmers families celebrated together. The collision of family customs (the crackers from Canada, the flaming plum pudding from, well, us) was great; mixed things up a bit!

For those willing to endure it, I've uploaded about 1 million photos to my flickr account. My family made a big mistake: they gave me a bigger memory card for my camera. This is the result.

One of my favorite pictures is of our local Tommy's Pond that I caught at the end of our after Christmas dinner walk (click the above picture for a larger version). There are also lots of pictures walking about New York City as well.

Hey -- I tried out Flickr's new print service (I think they use Target). I have a 7 megapixel camera and printed up two 20x30 inch posters (10 bucks each). They were incredible. Because the 7 megapixel camera isn't quite good enough the colors are a touch washed out (so saturate them a little bit if you have the chance), but wow. I'm going to have to print one or two for my office and for our house!

I'm on owl shift. I have 450 mail messages. A boat load of dead Level 3 nodes. Work. It was a great holiday.