This is both an international and a hyper-local update. I say international, although I’m still in an airport less than twenty miles from my house. I’m on my way to Florence, to talk about *-oriented programming at Pragma Conference 2015. It’ll be fun to catch up with friends in a new city, and close the conference with what I hope is an informative talk. I’ll put my notes up some time after the talk.
The theme of this week has been friends. I’ve had lots of things I could be doing, and even a few things I should be doing. For the most part I’ve been letting that take second place to spending time with friends. I’ve ended up playing a lot of tunes and singing a lot of songs as a result, and maybe only written four or five paragraphs of useful text.
Speaking of singing and playing, our band is going to play the main spot at Folk in the Barn, Stockton on the 27th. Anyone who’s around the Somerville Arms, Leamington on Tuesday 13th October or Harbury folk club on Thursday 5th November will also discover a subset of the band doing a couple of numbers. International readers will be amused by the provincial nature of this part of the post; a lot of the fun of this break has been connecting with the local area and things that are going on around me.
