in a telecon, even from here...

JL strikes back... (yawn). Sitting here listening in via my cellphone. They need me, unfortunately...

Last night... much late-night laughter, after working in the lab until 9:30pm. Being eyed by women in the taberna inglesa. More Cuban rum ;). My government credit card lasted until today, long enough to get a final weekly cash advance. So I can still afford coffee...

Today... up at 7:30am, breakfast meeting at 8:30am as per usual, no relationship processing (yay!), but lots of processing of rock cores. And trying to find a Visual C++ -compatible compiler, after a grad student left behind buggy code and no compiler... I can do it on my Mac, but that doesn't help.

back in the lab

At nearly midnight, rather than going to the Roman cultural festival that is going on around the corner from the hotel. I had to climb a fence to get in... but this is the only time I can play with the router while not causing gnashing of teeth by the rest of the team.

Tonight, Casiano's wife was in the kitchen... *he* was even more enthusiastic than usual. Omelets or gazpacho, followed by either calamares or his wife's special pork loin in sauce, with hand-beaten potatoes. And a double cafe con hielo, to keep me awake at work tonight...

(mind rambling) BTW, deep-fried sea anenome tastes kind of like fried clams, except softer and a bit squishier and greenish... (from Tuesday's dinner out, this was something that dawnd and I decided to try ;).