Today is a downtime day.<\/p>\n
Last night, after some work on a Mysterious Project that went quite well, I got 7 hours of sleep; then after being awake for a few minutes, went back to sleep and got 3 more hours of sleep. I really really needed that, after two weeks of averaging 5 hours a night. Many thanks to NyQuil, a dark quiet room, earplugs, white noise (a fan), and my standard going-to-sleep music. Also helpful: not having anything scheduled for today.<\/p>\n
I've had almost no alone-time in the past two weeks (except when asleep), and much as I love spending time with all y'all, there comes a time when I just need to be by myself. So my plan for today is to not leave my hotel room and not interact with anyone face-to-face if I can help it.<\/p>\n
Woke up for real around noon, ate leftover pizza, have been lounging about in bed with my computer. Fixed a bug in Strange Horizons<\/cite> PHP code, a bug which I introduced years ago by using a standard PHP shorthand that's apparently no longer valid; apologies to all authors who got the worrying “not a valid ID” error message. Spent some time on Facebook. Not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of the day, but I expect it to be spent in glorious solitude. Maybe some reading, maybe some writing, maybe working on to-do list. Maybe napping. We'll see.<\/p>\n Tonight, I hope to get more sleep. Tomorrow, I hope to venture forth into Alumni Weekend and my 25th-year class reunion with renewed vigor. Sunday, I'll be flying home.<\/p>\n ...I would close with my usual “and I'll never leave home again” thing, but in fact this time I'll be off on another (much briefer) trip two weeks from now.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is a downtime day. Last night, after some work on a Mysterious Project that went quite well, I got…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,106,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates","category-sleep","category-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}