Home safe and sound

Hi Everyone,
I've just received word that the ladies are safe and sound back in Alabama. I'm still here for another two weeks or so, and I already miss them very much. They left on Friday night, in the middle of a party here at FABI, the annual meeting of the Society for the Presentation Of Outrageous Findings, or SPOOF. I gave a talk on some of my "inventions", and we all had a good laugh at the nerdy business we do.

After the talks it was party time, and the girls got to play and eat a bit before getting in the car for the 45 minute drive to OR Tambo International Airport just north of Jo'burg. Oliver Tambo was Nelson Mandela's law partner and also very active in the ANC in exile while Madiba was in Prison. He died in 1993, after the lift of the ban but before election.

So the ladies got to the check-in counter and I parked and came back for some last hugs and kisses. They had some difficulty at the ticket counter, but fortunately weren't saddled with overweight fees. So I helped entertain the kinders while Mum sorted the tickets.

Jo'burg to Amsterdam overnight, Amsterdam to Detroit, Detroit to Atlanta. If there are more details of note from the trip, I will relate them as I hear them. But I'm glad their back in oaks and hickories in Alabama once more.

Whither this blog? Perhaps I should change the name to Zanzot in ZA?, Will I continue to blog after my return? Perhaps a new blog? It's pretty fun I must admit.

In other news we are already making plans to come back. My microsatellite work is at a pretty good mothballing point, but I'll need to come back for a quick month or two to finish collecting data (hopefully), and Jossie is also trying to coordinate with the Architecture folks here as well. So perhaps I'll keep folks abreast of ZA news from home. I don't know...