Just returned (well, OK, a day or so back) from New York City, where I was giving some presentations about e-smith to NYLUG and NY.pm. Stayed with Tori (a friend from Usenet) and spent most of my time shopping and looking around at stuff. The shopping gets 10/10, the Cloisters museum (medieval part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) gets 10/10, but NYC overall gets the thumbs down. It was smelly and dirty and just icky. I would never want to live there, and I don't even have any urgent wish to visit again, though I'm sure I will sometime.

Realised over the weekend that Pennsic is sneaking up on me. I need to start sewing. Argh.

It's raining today, which is a good thing. We really need it.

Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk down by the river and discovered a beach. It's not much of a beach, but it's at least as good as the beach at Warneet, where I spent most of my holidays as a kid. I should find out if there's anywhere nearby that I can hire a canoe to paddle round in.

Reading: "The Book on the Bookshelf" by Henry Petroski. It's about the history of bookshelves. Really.