{"id":3836,"date":"2010-03-23T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2010-03-23T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T03:17:00","slug":"my-bags-are-packed-im-ready-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"My bags are packed, I&#8217;m ready to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4459097294\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4459097294_a12314cdd8.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">My flight to San Jose isn&#8217;t until 11:30 tomorrow morning, so I don&#8217;t have be up <em>too<\/em> early. It&#8217;s going to be a long day after that, though, pretty much nothing but travel. I&#8217;m supposed to get into Minneapolis-St. Paul around two o&#8217;clock, then fly to San Jose three hours later. It will be around ten o&#8217;clock New York time when I finally touch down in California, but luckily I won&#8217;t have to be at work (in the same hotel I&#8217;m staying at) until eight o&#8217;clock Thursday morning. I&#8217;m hoping I&#8217;ll get to see a little of San Jose while I&#8217;m there, despite being at work (selling books at our exhibit booth) until five o&#8217;clock every day, but there&#8217;s no guarantee. It&#8217;s not <em>exactly<\/em> how I&#8217;d like to be spending my birthday &#8212; I can think of a few other places I&#8217;d prefer this free trip to be sending me &#8212; but, then again, it <em>is<\/em> a free trip, and the work itself isn&#8217;t too hard, so I&#8217;m not exactly complaining.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I get back late Sunday night, which is one of a couple of reasons why I&#8217;m taking next Monday off. I think I&#8217;m going to take my laptop with me, and I think I&#8217;ll have internet access while I&#8217;m away, but if you don&#8217;t hear from me between now and then, don&#8217;t worry. All is well. I&#8217;m selling books and meeting authors.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, did I mention I announced the final table of contents <a href=\"http:\/\/kaleidotrope.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/kaleidotrope-s-eighth-issue-will-be.html\">for <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i> #8<\/a>? Because, well, I did.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My flight to San Jose isn&#8217;t until 11:30 tomorrow morning, so I don&#8217;t have be up too early. It&#8217;s going to be a long day after that, though, pretty much nothing but travel. I&#8217;m supposed to get into Minneapolis-St. Paul around two o&#8217;clock, then fly to San Jose three hours later. It will be around &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3836\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}