{"id":1334,"date":"2017-03-30T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:20:53","slug":"back-in-the-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2017\/03\/30\/back-in-the-ussr\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I was here, I made a comment about how I hoped things <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2017\/01\/03\/hard-days-night\/\">were going to get less busy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/33358544730\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"U!S!A!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3858\/33358544730_038dc1b7fb_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"U!S!A!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; that didn&#8217;t work out too well.<\/p>\n<p>Since January, I have been on six overseas work trips. The most recent was to some little out-of-the-way place in middle America. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also doing the work of about four mortal men\u2014on the one hand, working for an agency, this is good, because it means I get paid at the end of the month. On the other, bloody hell I&#8217;m knackered. Thankfully Jenny is off to a conference in Warwick on Sunday, which means I <em>have<\/em> to pick up Joshua, which means I <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> go to the big Brand Meeting in Prague that we&#8217;re running, which meant I had to sadly decline not only the meeting itself (trip #7) but also the two slide preview sessions held at #MAJORCLIENT_HQ (trips #8 and #9).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still tired and a little stressed. But there is a bright golden haze on the meadow: the meeting (which I still have to support) is over on Thursday; my stupidly tight print deadline for a major materiel is in the past; I have two days in lieu next week and we&#8217;ve completed all the work we had to do to support a major phase 3 clinical trial presentation. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/33358542570\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"U!S!A!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3679\/33358542570_9d622e780e_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"U!S!A!\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back home the mercury hit 20&deg;C today, the daffodils are in full show, the birds are coughing in the trees and the cherry blossom is out. I can see the bluebells starting to push their way up and the pool is warm enough (OK, not so testicle-crushingly cold) to dip in after a sauna. And I&#8217;ve just made chocolate ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Things are looking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I was here, I made a comment about how I hoped things were going to get less busy. Yeah&#8230; that didn&#8217;t work out too well. Since January, I have been on six overseas work trips. The most recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2017\/03\/30\/back-in-the-ussr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,50,29,178],"tags":[352,190,350,351],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-nonsense","category-personal","category-work","tag-brexit","tag-spring","tag-washington","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}