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We’re here, alive and well, after an incredibly gruelling trip over. This is my second time to Scotland, but I don’t remember it being this hard the first time. This might be attributable to the fact that it’s been seven years, or maybe I was just super-excited the first time — not that I wasn’t super-excited this time.

Our first day here was pretty quiet. After being awake for 24+ hours, I desperately needed a nap and slept for a good chunk of the afternoon. After being forcibly awoken, everyone just congregated in the living room t get reaquainted. Brian and John put a lot of effort into helping me get my gadgets working — the power adaptor that Heather brought doesn’t work. Fortunately, it turns out that my laptop will accept up to 240 V without requiring a voltage convertor, so the juice is flowing. I was worried for a minute there (we checked about five stores and none of them had what we needed — as you can expect, all of their adaptors were going in the reverse direction).

Today, I woke up at 6 AM and I’ve been killing time while everyone else sleeps (imagine me being the first one awake — it boggles the mind). Not only did Brian get a real Internet connection since the last time we were here, but they have a wireless router as well. I’m in Mark heaven. I’ve started organizing the photos I’ve taken and I’m putting them up on flickr. If you want to see my photos, just go to my photostream. I’ve got an iPhoto plugin called FlickrExport that makes this so easy. If you want, sign up for a Flickr account so you can comment on them, or just comment here. Whatevs.

Anyway, I’ve got some emails to write, so I’m off. Cheers.