Home safe and mostly sound

Yesterday was the longest travel day, or so it seemed. After being gone for one day short of six weeks, I suddenly find myself back in Melbourne. I couldn't sleep, despite it being close to 4am GMT when I arrived back home. My flights out of Philly were all screwed up, though I ended up taking a later flight than I was scheduled to...and one of my bags ended up on the new flight (don't ask me how) and the new flight ended up arriving 30 minutes before the flight I was originally scheduled to arrive on. And my second bag came on that flight...so no real gains either way. My friend Eric came to pick me up, but it took nearly 2 hours to get to the airport (what is normally a 45 minute drive.) He wasn't really late...I got my 2nd bag just as he arrived...but we both forgot about the traffic coming from the Cape after the shuttle launch. Anyway, I drove home in the dark, thinking about my trip and just chatting with Eric about anything and everything. Then I get home and its...well I cant sleep. So I unpack, put clothes ready for the laundry, sort some of the stuff I bought, and then go to sleep about 1:45 am.

I wake up at 6, and tell myself, back to bed, which is where I stayed until about 7:45. Luckily today is a slow day. I've been sorting mail and paying bills, going through an entire box of mail. I have a huge stack of magazines to go through, laundry to do, grocery shopping (which needs to be done sooner than later) and well an assortment of stuff that is small and large. Tomorrow is an all day business day at work, but I may pop in very briefly this morning to turn in grades and drop off a few things for the secretaries who have helped me out while I was gone.

Anyway, this may be it for this blog, but I will post a few more pictues when I can get settled a bit more and have some time to breathe. Probably over the weekend would make sense...

I hope you have enjoyed the blog. I plan on doing the same next year.

Matt