November 19.

November is a long month. It was gray most days and what daylight we saw was quickly shrinking. On one sunny day I managed to snap some pictures.

For much of November we had dustings of snow on the ground but never enough to shovel.

The temperatures hovered near freezing so we got a lot of thawing and freezing of the snow which left the walk to work quite treacherous at times.

In Sweden they put down crushed rock on the roads for traction -- supposedly in the spring they vacuum it all up again

This is a view from KTH east towards Lindingoe (our island).

In the foreground is a running track that gets converted into a huge skating track in the winter.

One of the robots at KTH which is often running up and down the halls outside my office.

Another one of the robots; this one with an "arm" on it. The robot is in the "living room" which is actually a research laboratory outfitted with Ikea furniture which provides a realistic domestic setting for the robots.

We made a trip back to Toronto in November for Shanon Ju's departmental thesis defense -- which she passed with flying colors.

A few of our Toronto friends:

Alanna.

The Jepsons minus Alex and minus some front teeth.