Changes....

Greetings from sunny Washington DC! I am in DC for a couple of weeks doing some work. Its quite hot here still, certainly a change from Cambridge. Its been a busy couple of weeks, thus no postings. SO here is a quick update. The last few days of August were spent moving to our new lodgings, a Victorian terrace. That was quite good except we find we are suffering a surfeit of chairs - there is a lounge chair in EVERY room which we find a bit difficult. Constantly tripping over them. We are getting to know our new landlords though so hopefully we can suggest that some culling is in order! If it works out we may be able to stay in this place the rest of our time in Cambridge, although they are having renovations done which mean we would need to move out for 6 months the second half of next year. Cross that bridge when we come to it - and see how long we can put up with so many chairs! But now we have more room and all our stuff has arrived today. R says the living room is FULL of boxes so not only do we have surfeit of chairs but also surfeit of boxes. Who knows where it is all going - probably to the tip!!
So just after our move I flew off to DC, which was fine, and I am here for a while. Not much exciting going on. I bought myself a new laptop which is very nice, like that a lot ( a Sony VGN-T370 for those of you who are interested in that sort of thing). Now I am trying to sort out a difficult data problem here. Things always take longer than you anticipate!
Been down to some of the Smithsonian museums (http://www.si.edu), which are always good. Yesterday went hiking along the Potomac with our Cambridge landlords who live here (small world). Saw some great kayaking on the Great Falls, and the rock looks great. Found a few pictures on climbing in the area - 5.7-5.12 apparently, really appealing area, be great fun to spend a few days on the rock - but not going to happen this time!
Off to New York middle of next week, a symposium at Princeton a couple of days visiting data providers in New York and then home. It will be nice to get back and just sit for a while!! At the moment I think we side with the kids - could we just go home and sit in our nice stable house for a while (which doesnt have 3000 chairs).