Long day and musings

So, got into Adelaide around 2am, after leaving Canberra around 9am. Usual type trip - the Fairy Dell Cafe in Oeyen appears to have about the best food along the trip route (unfortunately not up to Braidwood woodfired pizza standards, but not bad), and they have parrots. There was a pause for an hour or so outside of Tallem Bend for a nap, then onwards home.

Along the way, there was much conversation and musing, and since some of it was next Festival/longer term planning, bits I can remember are being written down here.
( Planning and musing )

And this morning Z is home with a bit of a tummy bug (luckily mild), the car has been unpacked before the contents wilted in the heat, laundry has started and there are the usual battles over who gets the laptop time...

But 1 of 3 video bits of bellows work and playing with glass is up here (I hope or at least will be shortly) - will play with the rest and put up photos soon.

Whooohooooo!

Or, a post not about tents, Festival or anything medieval.

Your manuscript entitled "Abundances in intermediate-mass AGB stars undergoing third dredge-up and hot-bottom burning", *snip*, has now been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal.
*snip*
Referee's report:
As pointed out by the authors, the results here "come from exploratory observations and calculations", and this is a pioneering effort in determining abundances in very intractable stars.
*snip*

Submitted 23 March, accepted 12 April, which is a far faster turn around than the last paper (which took about a year of reubmission and changes). Mind you, the other authors are slightly bigger names this time round...

Publication. Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!!!

So, that is what I spent the past 3 years working on...

Back to the usual topics.

It has been quite a day for posting...
In any case, a selection of my Festival photos are up here. If you are in them and don't wish to be displayed, ping here and I can remove them, otherwise, sometime tomorrow I will pass on the link to more public places like the Lochac Shambles, AAF, and St Florians lists. Conversely, if you know people interested in the link, pass it on. Hopefully when I post the link, I will have the two other video links up and will post them all in one fell swoop.

Last post for the day (meme sheepage)

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want -- good or bad. When you're finished, if you aren't too busy actually having a life or need a good excuse to procrastinate varnishing the cat, post this little paragraph on your blog (or on the window or in the classified ads) and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

I am curious to see how the corridor camoflage holds up/affects things.