{"id":6101,"date":"2010-07-31T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T14:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2010-07-31T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T14:51:59","slug":"toms-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6101","title":{"rendered":"Tom's Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As promised, Tom’s back. (Wearing a NYC subway tee given to me by my brother)<\/p>\n

I won’t get into whether it was a well-deserved<\/em> vacation \u2014 I’m a federal employee and I am entitled to it. And now, of course, I’m exhausted. Vacations are restful in one sense, but tiring in another; add to that the drive back, through Pennsylvania’s road construction “paradise” and entering the Washington traffic at rush “hour” on a Friday, with its stress and fatigue. Add to that the toll that eating vacation cuisine puts on you. I’m glad I have the weekend to recover.<\/p>\n

I did all the things I promised I would<\/a>. The reunion had ~150 attendees, and I got to see all of my aunts and uncles and all but one first cousin on both sides of the family (the outlier being a Florida resident, on my dad’s side, i.e. not drawn in by the reunion of my mom’s side of the family), and loads of more distant relatives. Of course you can’t get that many people together without some melodrama, because not everybody gets along (owing to some slight, real or imagined) but I try to stay away from all that. I plead ignorance and apathy, and not necessarily in that order. It’s just so high school.<\/p>\n

Even without the reality non-TV, we had an eventful week. Rain early on, peaking with a storm on Saturday that spawned several tornadoes<\/a>, with damage being done just a mile or two up the road (including destruction at a condo where we had stayed a few years ago). The weather after Sunday ~noon was fabulous, so the lack of air conditioning wasn’t a problem at all. Got out geocaching Monday – Thursday, with the only issue being that I didn’t have time to download the clues, note the size or read the backstories of the caches, which undoubtedly cost me a find or two; micro-caches in the woods are tough without a clue, with a potential search area of up to a thousand square feet (or even more, on occasion). It also helps to know if you’re looking for a pill bottle vs an ammo container.<\/p>\n

I also put my cameras to work, and will be processing the results and posting them soon. I’m way behind on internet reading, but did manage to finish two books I was working on (Operation Mincemeat<\/em> by Ben Macintyre, which had popped up on my radar<\/a> recently, and Collapse<\/em> by Jared Diamond, that I’d been working on for seemingly forever)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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