I was back in Davis on Monday for my final small group/Bible study meeting. That was actually a potluck/bring-and-share supper (some delicious barbecued/braaied chicken with various salads, etc.), and was my "farewell" to the group. The small group had got me a book about the Davis area and had all signed a card, which was very nice of them. It's great how one has a Christian family all over the world.
Colin and Janet had lent me their Dodge Durango SUV for the trip to Davis on Monday. Packing my stuff into the SUV and cleaning up in Davis was relatively unstressful and I was back in Rocklin by 3:00pm on Tuesday. It was nice to have the big vehicle as it swallowed a chest of drawers and a small desk easily with stacks of space to spare for the two suitcases, as well as numerous bags of junk, bedding, etc. which need to be returned to their owners or donated. I'm ignoring the challenge of fitting everything I want to bring back to SA into two suitcases for the moment!
I need to get back to Davis sometime to collect the bed and the bicycle, which will need a trailer — the plan is to do that on Saturday.
Next week I will be in Las Vegas for the 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'09), part of the 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'09). That's a huge conference that I have attended several times before. I'll be presenting a paper on some of the work that I did here late last year.
Then there is one last camping/boating trip planned before I fly back to SA.
It's hard to believe I leave here in only two weeks now. The time seems to be flying by rather fast!
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