Saturday, January 31, 2004

29 January, Thursday: To bed at 3:15 AM from Ireland and up at 8:30. Decided to work from home.

Jill called. She got bigzoo.com so is calling very inexpensively now. It was great. We spoke about 20 minutes. She’d also spoken to Rob and Beata in Japan.

Big news—she found a cheap flight and may come over to visit me for a long weekend. Todd would keep the kids. I can’t believe it—I’m so excited! And am already planning for fun.

Caught up on email (I think it mates and reproduces while I sleep). Paid bills, went to the dry cleaners, and did grocery shopping. And after a day of mundane activities, I watched TV and went to bed.

Probably the quietest day since arriving and I accomplished a lot (both work-wise and home-wise).

Ordered broadband too and I’m so excited. It will be awesome to be able to connect more quickly—will help with my work tremendously but also will be able to use my webcam to communicate with my family.

I connect right now at 48K, not even 56K. So even though this broadband won’t be as fast as at home, it will be a huge improvement and I’m stoked.

POSTED 2:35 PM UK time