On the good side, we put our house in Groton on the market and are under agreement with a buyer - yay! We don't have a new house yet but we have some irons in the fire in the Chelmsford area.

I've also been having a lot of fun at work developing our voice driven search product for mass market mobile phones. I don't know when it will first show up in the wild but it's pretty darn slick.

Lastly I've been reading a lot (yes, I know, I always say that). I got hooked on George R. R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice series and plowed through the four available books with barely a breath between pages. I generally hate Fantasy, I find it so insipid, but this series was amazing. I've seen it described as Fantasy for people who hate Fantasy. I guess that's why I liked it. I've also just finished Pirate Freedom by Gene Wolfe. It's not my favorite Wolfe book but if pirates be your fancy, you could read a lot worse.

On the bad side, I've had a bad back. Worst that it's ever been. Between doctor visits and physical therapy I've been pretty busy. The good news is that the therapists at Wellesley Theraputics in Harvard are now among my favorite people in the world. Their ability to fix a problem that's been nagging me years is just fantastic. So I guess it's really all good.

Hermit Island is coming up so I'll probably not be posting again for a while. Have a nice summer everyone.