Knackered; Or, Why I'm Behind on Lots of Things But Especially Reading Blogs

December: Maine/Boston
January: Washington/Oregon/British Columbia
February: Texas, San Francisco, Berkeley
March: Palm Desert, Anza Borrego
April/May: Boston
May/June: San Francisco, North Carolina/Virginia, Bodega Bay, Berkeley

[Of special note: we live less than 20 miles from Sacramento, and I’m not sure I’ve been there once this year… just in case you think putting down Berkeley or San Francisco is trivial for a Davisite.]

Numenius left today for Minneapolis and an open source GIS conference. This is the first time he’s gone somewhere without me for ages; I, on the other hand, have been doing some running around, most of it alone. All of it was fun, though. (I’ve seen seventeen new North American birds this year, which is more than in the last ten years put together. Edging toward 700…) What I think I need to acknowledge, though, is that these short trips take me a long time to bounce back from, in terms of retrieving my focus. I can slip back into work, I can slip back into blogging, but I’m not really here yet. The settling takes longer these days. Eh oui.

So today, especially, I’m happy to stay put, having had a massage this evening to deal with sitting on too many planes and not doing enough exercise and generally pampering myself after a physical exam yesterday, of the routine variety but never, ever pleasant…