....and I was never happier to see my bed than I was last night.

(I'm still tired, even though I slept for nearly 10 hours. It always takes me a couple days to recover from bad travel).

Break - outside of the traveling - was pretty good. I got my taxes done (though I will need to check the math and also verify if I had a capital loss carryover from last year - I don't think I did but if I did it will reduce my tax bill). I wrote and submitted an abstract to the N. A. Prairie Conference but won't hear back until this week if it's been accepted (I assume it will; I've never had an abstract rejected anywhere before and I know the NAPC often has to keep their abstract-submission times open longer than they originally said). I also read two books I needed to read for my Directed Readings class (more on those later).

I also got some knitting done.
(Pictures will come later as my camera doesn't hold a charge well and I need to recharge it before I photograph them. I'm still thinking about a smaller, more portable, ideally better-close-focus camera - both for my knitted stuff and for photographing lichens and stuff out in the field.)

I (finally) finished the first of the Child's French Sock socks and started the second. I also finished the just-plain-ribbing socks out of the Opal Rainforest III.

I also finished the Clapotis that I made of Cleckheaton Country Silk and was even able to show it off to the proprietor of the shop where I bought the yarn.

And, probably the cutest thing I finished - I made the humpback whale from that pattern I bought off of Etsy. I thought the little beluga was cute but the humpback whale beats the beluga in terms of cuteness, I think.