Odds and ends

Some observations from the last month to bring you up to date (in no particular order);

• Tonight we had to evacuate our apartment building because someone left food on the stove and went out. Fortunately the fire alarms work, and the only lasting effect is being cold from having the windows open to let out the smoke.
  
• Thanksgiving is a great holiday that Australia should adopt right away. I had 4 days off, ate loads of turkey, had lamb for 2 meals, and watched enough football to last a lifetime. Of course there has to be balance in the universe - one of the incubators at work died, and I spent quite some time getting fresh stocks of cells growing.
• New York is quite unpleasant when it's raining. Eating at the risotteria in West Village is very pleasant, rain or not.
  
• Scraping 10cm of snow off the car on Thanksgiving morning is a pain. Driving in snow without snow tyres sucks. Slipping over on ice in the carpark the first day it really snows hurts!
• If you book your car in to have the snow tyres fitted you can be sure it will be above 10C for the next few days.
• If you really want to see snow when you visit Ithaca, you probably won't. It will snow the day after you leave though.

• Adam could spend the rest of his life sitting in a cafe writing and be happy as a pig in mud. Oh, we already knew that :)