The new beamline at MAX-lab I911 called Cassiopia was open yesterday to much fanfare. There were over 100 people, including a Danish minister, someone from the Swedish Science Foundation and people from the big drung company AstraZenica. It was a great contrast the Nuclea Physics program, where we would be lucky if everyone from the group in Lund turned up to the inauguration! It made me look forward to the opening ceremony for the Australia Synchrotron Project. Hopefully it will be on time and on budget like the Canadian one that will be commissioned in November when Greg and I will be there.

Well, I got the great job in Melbourne that I was after. Accelerator Physicist for the Australian Synchrotron called Boomerang20. I will be starting work here in Lund with my new boss Greg LeBlanc, an American married to a Swede, as he is also here at MAX-lab. I am really looking forward to returning to Melbourne, I have come to realise it is my home, but it took being away from the people and places for me to realise this. It will be a busy summer here in the Northern Hemisphere before heading home. I have a holiday to Rome coming up over the Kristi himmelsfärds dag 4 day weekend, then a conference at Duke in North Carolina the day after I get back from Italy. On my way to the conference I will visit Kevin at the JLab in just south of Washington DC. Then, when I get back from the USA, we have about three groups of Aussies coming to visit, including T, David & Kirsten as well as Marty, Amy's buddy from RMIT who will go to Legoland with her!

This not to mention Amy's concerts this weekend and her trip to Bologna at the same time I am in Rome (that is why I choose Italy, not wanting to miss out!). Margareta is coming down from Göteborg to see the concert tomorrow and I will make her an Aussie meat pie when Amy goes to the after party with the orchestra. Life is never dull...