{"id":504,"date":"2009-11-24T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/24\/home-is-where-the-kettle-is\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T01:29:00","slug":"home-is-where-the-kettle-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/24\/home-is-where-the-kettle-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Home is where the kettle is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba was <em>awesome<\/em>. I highly recommend it to those of you who are able to visit (sorry, American blog buddies!) I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll bore you all to tears with&nbsp;my planned&nbsp;series of upcoming posts and photos*, but I&#8217;ll try to intersperse them with other <strike>random ramblings<\/strike> intelligent insights.<\/p>\n<p>First, though, I have to deal with a logjam of digital information that is threatening to unleash a flood of epic proportions upon my poor jetlagged** head:<\/p>\n<p>&gt;250 work emails to read \/ file \/ answer \/ delete<br \/>&gt;350 grant opportunity announcements and work-related Google alerts to pick through<br \/>&gt;400 &#8220;proper&#8221; blog posts to read (not including LOLcats etc)<br \/>&gt;1000 journal article alerts&nbsp;to browse (in Google Reader &#8211; I recently switched all my TOC alerts from email to RSS, which makes things sooooo much easier to manage).<\/p>\n<p>I hate feeling like I&#8217;m missing out on anything, so if there have been any major announcements, developments, or fights in our little corner of the blogosphere, I&#8217;d appreciate a wee linkie to take me to the action! I&#8217;ll do my best to catch up on everyone&#8217;s news over the next couple of weeks or so, but until then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>why is it so <em>fucking<\/em> dark and cold?<\/li>\n<li>why did the local sandwich shop not have a band playing when I went to get my lunch?<\/li>\n<li>why&nbsp;did no-one try to sell me cigars or lead me to their brother&#8217;s restaurant on the walk there and back?<\/li>\n<li>why have I not had a single drink yet today? It&#8217;s, like, <em>after five!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mind you, I&#8217;ve been back for only 27 hours and I&#8217;ve already done lots of wonderful things that weren&#8217;t an option in Cuba:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>watched hockey<\/li>\n<li>arsed about on the internet<\/li>\n<li>had a really good cup of tea (actually, three)<\/li>\n<li>eaten sushi<\/li>\n<li>drunk wonderful, tasty, refreshing&nbsp;tapwater<\/li>\n<li>snuggled under a blankie in a cold room<\/li>\n<li>rubbed Saba&#8217;s belly and Google&#8217;s chin<\/li>\n<li>slagged off the government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Home. There&#8217;s no place like it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>*um. Our new &#8220;waterproof&#8221; camera did great on its first field test &#8211; we got some great shots on, in, and under the nice calm water &#8211; but it turned out&nbsp;only to be waterproof if you don&#8217;t take it into crashing Atlantic surf that picks you up and smacks you back down into the water. It <em>might<\/em> just be a shorted-out battery. The photos on the card <em>might<\/em> be salvagable. Luckily, we&#8217;d taken our old camera (literally held together with duct tape and an elastic band) with us, with the aim of giving it away to a school or university, so we used that for the second week (dodgy Cuban batteries allowing &#8211; I&#8217;d forgotten to recharge the ones in it). But the awesome photos we took on&nbsp;the most&nbsp;beautiful beach either of us has ever seen,&nbsp;and in gloriously photogenic Habana, might not be recoverable. Boooooooooooo.<\/p>\n<p>**Doesn&#8217;t it seem like three hours shouldn&#8217;t be enough to bother you? And yet, every time I visit the East coast, it gets me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba was awesome. I highly recommend it to those of you who are able to visit (sorry, American blog buddies!) I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll bore you all to tears with&nbsp;my planned&nbsp;series of upcoming posts and photos*, but I&#8217;ll try to intersperse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/24\/home-is-where-the-kettle-is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,41,12,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-glorious-food","category-meta","category-music","category-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}