Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

17:00 EDT

All conferences come to an end eventually. I left the hacking lounge rather early last night to catch some sleep. I find East-bound jetlag more bearable that way. Not that it helps much, of course.

Breakfast at the local Second Cup again. I've not quite managed to train them to suggest a random muffin automatically, but the resistance to randomness is pretty much gone. Of course, I'll need to retrain them again next year...

Lunch followed rather quickly after breakfast. George (or "Geoff", as the Residence receipt calls him) knew of a tea-and-sandwich place on York which I should try to remember for next year. They were very happy to offer me a random tea too. Excellent!

Getting through security at YOW was not too troublesome, despite having Robert nearby. It appears the plane is filled with geeks. We're theoretically distributed all through the plane, but I have a feeling some small reorganizing will miraculously occur...

If I remember the callsign correctly, the plane is the same one that flew me here. No power plugs.

A text message this morning warned me that the trains in Belgium are on strike tomorrow. I wonder if I'm going to get to work... We'll have to see. I'm very consciously not thinking about the second leg of my trip or my layover at the zone of randomness and baggage-consumption on that little lsland off the coast of Europe...