I made a thorough and useful packet of train schedules for Portugal. I would share it for you, but one thing I have learned in life is that certain things which are very interesting to me are actually not interesting at all to other people. But suffice it to say, it is a very thorough and useful packet. There’s this one train station I thought we’d be using which is very beautiful, but as it turns out, it’s under repairs and we have to go to a boring train station instead. Oh well.

Denny practiced his conference presentation at work today. He did a very good job. His project is really cool; it’s an online interface for researchers to use in searching and learning about a large collection of ancient Iberian plaques. He also found out that this conference we’re going to in Portugal is being held next year in Fargo, North Dakota. We picked the right year to go.

I took an interesting quiz put out by the BBC about gender and brains. It turns out I have a man-brain. My overall score was the exact average for men who took the test, and it was way off from the average score for women. Who knew? It’s a rather extensive test, but it was fun and interesting to do. I consistently scored well on the parts that men traditionally do well on, and poorly on the parts that women traditionally do well on.