{"id":15686,"date":"2007-07-17T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/07\/17\/mostly-back\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:45","slug":"mostly-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/07\/17\/mostly-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Mostly back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the worst jetlag ever last week. Every night I was up anywhere from 3 to 6AM. Not surprisingly, I got sick at the weekend. Bluh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t really got my words back, so the book is on pause for another couple of days. I have been managing to get some work-work done. But yesterday I determined to turn it around: I made myself a big pot of comforting, stewy soup, drank lots of OJ, started taking supermegaechinacea, and I took a bunch of herbal &#8220;natural sleep&#8221; pills at bedtime and had the first proper rest in a while.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Life will shortly resume as usual. And I must remember next time I fly to take precautions. I have to learn how to avoid jet-lag (suggestions?), and I have to boost my immune system, because humans are filthy and it&#8217;s predictable that I will get sick when I&#8217;m trapped in a metal container with them at high altitudes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>But<\/em> I did manage to get another item from my to-do list completed: post my Canada pictures. They&#8217;re nothing special, but I promised this time to actually document my trip, looking at the places I go in Canada through the eyes of someone who&#8217;s not been there before. So here you go&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.co.uk\/hamishmacdonald\/CanadaSummer2007\" title=\"Canada 2007 trip pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/995\/mostly-back0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Canada trip thumbnail\" height=\"108\" style=\"width:144px;height:108px\" title=\"Canada trip thumbnail\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/995\/mostly-back1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the worst jetlag ever last week. Every night I was up anywhere from 3 to 6AM. Not surprisingly, I got sick at the weekend. Bluh. I still haven&#8217;t really got my words back, so the book is on pause for another couple of days. I have been managing to get some work-work done. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}