It's that time of the year when I dust off my math project of six or seven years running and have another go at it. It's a research problem in Riemannian geometry I've been tinkering with since my thesis. This time I've managed to see some interesting things I hadn't spotted before, but the general pattern they conform to doesn't permit me to prove anything attention-grabbing. For the first time I wonder if I've taken the project as far as it can go. It might be time to do a (nice, cleaned up) core dump to the arXiv and move on.

I've gotten an offer to do contract work in web development for the company my wife works for, so I'm considering language and/or framework options. I've only done backend stuff so far, so it might be a nice change of pace, given that I properly communicate to everyone involved what to and not to expect. Plus the extra money would be nice with the baby on the way.