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we're back after a long slog through three more great european cities; our last big side trip before our return. ten days, two nights max per bed, 300-some photos to put up (> 1/hr!), and really worn out shoes. we slept 11 hours last night, which for the New Seth is unheard of (how did that happen?)

for me, it was also a ten day internet fast (mostly out of lack of means, motivation, and opportunity). although i once used missy-surrogate to mapquest a location. i think that's ok. who knew one could survive without 50 RSS feeds, daily web comics, slashdot, digg, and reddit (ok, the last one hurt a little bit). good for perspective. i'll be culling some of these time-wasters from the daily routine. there's a lot of stuff that's just not that important compared to what i want to do. interestingly, towards the end, i got really itchy for my tools. maybe i just wanted to get back to monastic life. but having taken in so much, with projects having been abruptly put on hold, i was anxious to get back to making stuff. as perverse as it sounds, it felt good to have emacs under my fingers again.

so anyway, this is a little placeholder post until such time as i can get the photos online and miss can write up the notes she's taken. looking back at it, i'm pretty impressed with the density of culture and information per hour we were able to soak up. more on the details soon...