We drove from Milan to Torino to Evolène and back, in a week.

Whenever I feel like I’m focusing too much on Android and forgetting how to solve actual problems, I go to Project Euler. There are a few hundred math- and programming-related puzzles there which users are encouraged to solve by writing code.

Four in the morning is a ridiculously early time to wake up, but now that I've become accustomed it's hard to imagine going back.

In my last post, I left off writing that September was a watershed month, though now that I think about it, the real shift came the spring before, when I saw a simple drawing in a book.

I'm teaching myself how to program and am using this blog as a means of tracking my progress. As my journey began a long time ago and I'm only now beginning to document it, let me go back to the beginning.

After a week in Budapest, Rachael and her folks and I continued onto Prague where we spent the week between Christmas and New Years. These are the three experiences I enjoyed the most.

We've been exploring Budapest for two and half days now. Here are a couple things that have struck me so far.

One of my favorite hobbies is spending hours and hours obsessing over decisions that don't really matter. The decision I pored over this month was whether or not to migrate my blog from WordPress to a new, simpler platform called Jekyll.

The road trip we took last winter to Dubai — driving through Saudi Arabia on the way — went down without any problems, so soon afterward we started talking about making another trip, this time turning north at the Saudi border and heading toward Bahrain.

It's been a few weeks since I've written, so here's an update: we've moved back home.