I knew this day would eventually come, but I did not expect that it would come at this time.

Today I fly back to Ontario for the first time in almost five years.  In that time I’m sure that much has changed, and people have grown.  I have a nephew and a niece to meet for the first time, as well as a potential brother-in-law (assuming he ever asks my sister the question **shakes fist**).

Reiko is already on her way from Japan, and I’ll be meeting her in Toronto.  She’s sure to be exhausted from the 16 hours of flight, so I’ll be certain to have something for her to eat should she get hungry between Toronto and Simcoe (a two hour drive).  Unfortunately, because of time constraints, Reiko and I will only be able to stay in Ontario for two days.  In that time we’ll visit Simcoe, Niagara Falls and Port Dover, and there will be some small family things, too.

So this will give me ample opportunity to snap several hundred pictures and put them in the image gallery.

On Wednesday, Reiko and I will be making the flight back to Vancouver (on seperate planes … grr!) where we’ll spend a few days with friends here.  So on that note, I don’t think there will be very many science or technology-based entries in the next few days.  I do have a few in reserve for those “slow news days”, but I can’t quite put them up yet.

For anyone interested in the progress of my OpenSolaris-based Dynamic NAS project, I’m in the midst of putting together a very low cost server to test my initial work on.  The goal is to make use of a very simple $250 (or less) base and expand as required.  For the moment, this is certainly looking more plausible than other network appliances on the market.

I’d say “stay tuned” … but that’s so passe ….