Month notes: January

Month 1 of the year down. I often find it difficult to write a review of a time period objectively. I suspect my current mood is always skewing the ways in which I look at the time that's passed. Despite that, here's an attempt, for posterity. It has been two months since I returned to Canada, and it does look like we have two more months to go here before we take off for the tropics again. At…