Our weekend was busy but for the first time in a few weeks it was just us. We didn't do anything particularly exciting: went swimming, caught a movie (yes, it was heavy) that I highly recommend called 21 Grams*, had brunch and dinner with friends, mounted our artworks, backed up the photos on the computer (that's the problem with digital cameras. You've gotta backup the photos every now and again or you could lose 'em forever). What was nice was just to do it on our own. It was great to be on holidays; it was fun to have guests stay with us. But it's also nice to get back into the routine again. Just being a family doing family things. Catching up with our not-so-new Hong Kong lives. This week marked a year since the family got here. Quite a bit's happened. Like this, and this, and most importantly this. Oh, except this.

It's slowly getting hotter and stickier here as the fog rolls in for spring. Winter's gone. Nine months of dehumidifiers running around the clock to go. And due to Mrs M's "condition" we're not going anywhere for the summer. You're likely to here much more about swimming in the months ahead. Better start that diet seriously now.

_{* Note it is not a comedy, nor is a particularly good date movie, given it mainly deals with death and its aftermath.}