I’ve been offline for much of the day. The morning and afternoon were spent at Finfar, the academic conference. There were lots of interesting discussions, but I’m not going to write them up now, partly because it is very late, and partly because we have more papers to come tomorrow morning. I’ll do a proper post on it all once the conference is finished.

The evening was spent at the sauna, and then in the pub. The sauna was, of course, wonderful. There was great food too (thanks Hanna and everyone else who helped prepare it). I’m delighted to see that Saku, the Estonian beer that I grew fond of at a previous Helsinki Finncon, is available again.

I spotted a bunch of British fans in the pub, and I’ve been hanging out with Regina, an academic and convention organizer from Shanghai. It is good to see we are attracting a more international audience. I do hope that the Russian fans we have been promised turn up.