Tikkabik

So I haven't been posting much this week. On Sunday and Monday I was in Montreal for a quick business trip, and I've been on "vacation" the rest of the time. In this case, I didn't actually go anywhere fun -- I just stuck around the house and took care of errands, though we did use Thursday to go into Boston to the Museum of Science, which is in the midst of hosting a "Lord of the Rings" special effects exhibition.

The rest of the month is going to be a blur. My boss takes off for a week of vacation next week, then the week following is Apple Expo in Paris -- I'm not going (just as well), but I will be covering the event as I usually do. Apple Expo is one of my least favorite events to cover because of the time difference: There is, if I remember correctly, there's a six-hour difference between Paris and Boston. And at shows like Apple Expo, announcements are being made during the morning of the first day of the show -- when it's still the middle of the night on the East Coast.

James is doing remarkably well following his broken arm from last week. We switched orthopods after we discovered the guy who set his fracture isn't on our medical plan, but the fellow who checked James out yesterday tells us that the bone was set beautifully and that everything is going well. Four year olds mend their bones incredibly fast -- James is expected to stay in his cast for only four weeks. We'll have to go back weekly to make sure everything is okay, but with any luck, he'll make a full recovery.