Caveat Lector

In lieu of an actual post, a to-do list for today through leaving for Ruritania in a week:

• Get house ready for Wednesday-night houseguest.
• Bake David a birthday cake. Frost same. (By tomorrow. Knew I shoulda done it yesterday.)
• Research and write fairly hefty database-comparison paper. (Tuesday. Yikes.)
• Do up online survey for systems-analysis, on local and commercial survey software. (Next Wednesday. Have the questions, basically; just need to figure out the software.)
• Answer can’t-be-put-off-any-longer emails.
• Shop for food, including plane food.
• Chug through next week’s networking and search readings.
• Download the following week’s e-reserves to read on the plane coming back from Ruritania.
• Back up Silver Surfer (I always try to before I travel with it).
• Pack.
• Review/edit PowerPoint; refresh memory on a few of the obscurer topics; write up talk notes.
• Pack whatever I forgot to pack the first time.
• Last-minute fix to search lab exercises due Thursday. (ugh, almost forgot this)

I think that’s it. If nothing else hits me in the meantime. I really ought to get cracking on the planning software, too, but I’ve given myself an extra week on that because I’m seriously running out of life here.

Right. Time to put down the GIS books (so shiny!) and get to work.