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Thursday, April 17th, 2003 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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cowboy_r called, and we had a really nice, long, catching-up kind of chat.
I'm rather fond ofcowboy_r, and enjoy his company very much, even when it's just on AIM or on the phone. It's going to be a little trickier to stay as well in touch for the next six months or so, while the East Coast is temporarily 3 hours ahead of Arizona instead of 2, but I suspect we'll manage. On the plus side, it means that if I have another chance to visit him sometime soon, my flight out there will technically land an hour earlier than it did a couple of months ago.
(Arizona doesn't participate in Daylight Saving Time. As R says, "No one in their right mind would want an extra hour of daylight in the summer, in the desert!")
Daylight Saving Time started in (the rest of) the U.S. while we were in the air over the Atlantic. We'd been too distracted to be proactive about it, so our clocks were incorrect when we got home. I've been changing them as I've noticed them, but the large clock on the front wall is too high up for me to reach (even standing on a chair!) and we forgot to change it before Matt left. This has added to my general disorientation, as I don't really trust the time now until I check multiple clocks.
Yesterday I saw Matt back to the airport, for what will hopefully be his last Chicago trip. When this one is over, he may actually get a few days at home before his next assignment. Which would be nice. In case I haven't mentioned it lately, I'm pretty fond of him, too, and like having him around. This vacation was the longest we'd gotten to spend time together since early January.
After being in the passenger seat on the left-hand side of the car, driving on the left-hand side of the car yesterday was a bit of an exercise in concentration. I suspect that if I had actually driven while in the UK, it would have been worse, but as it was, I was fine. The only problem I encountered was in realizing that, on the highway, I was sufficiently turned around to have no idea which lane was the slow lane and which was the passing lane. But, since none of the other drivers seemed to know either, I didn't worry about it too much. :)
It became clearer to me this morning on the escalator in Port Authority, where habit to stand right and pass left kicked in. I think I'm sorted now.
The best news of the workday so far, is that most of the 463 emails in my work inbox are things I don't have to deal with personally. All are work-related, but fewer than 10 actually require my attention.
(That 463 is not counting all the server admin messages (two per 90-minute interval each workday) that I had set a filter to delete while I was gone. They did delete successfully.)
So, I'm off to deal with work-stuff. Since I don't have much of it to deal with today, distractions are most welcome. I'm currently running in stealth-mode on various chat programs, so if you want to chat, send an email to nudge me into visibility.
cowboy_r called, and we had a really nice, long, catching-up kind of chat. I'm rather fond of
cowboy_r, and enjoy his company very much, even when it's just on AIM or on the phone. It's going to be a little trickier to stay as well in touch for the next six months or so, while the East Coast is temporarily 3 hours ahead of Arizona instead of 2, but I suspect we'll manage. On the plus side, it means that if I have another chance to visit him sometime soon, my flight out there will technically land an hour earlier than it did a couple of months ago. (Arizona doesn't participate in Daylight Saving Time. As R says, "No one in their right mind would want an extra hour of daylight in the summer, in the desert!")
Daylight Saving Time started in (the rest of) the U.S. while we were in the air over the Atlantic. We'd been too distracted to be proactive about it, so our clocks were incorrect when we got home. I've been changing them as I've noticed them, but the large clock on the front wall is too high up for me to reach (even standing on a chair!) and we forgot to change it before Matt left. This has added to my general disorientation, as I don't really trust the time now until I check multiple clocks.
Yesterday I saw Matt back to the airport, for what will hopefully be his last Chicago trip. When this one is over, he may actually get a few days at home before his next assignment. Which would be nice. In case I haven't mentioned it lately, I'm pretty fond of him, too, and like having him around. This vacation was the longest we'd gotten to spend time together since early January.
After being in the passenger seat on the left-hand side of the car, driving on the left-hand side of the car yesterday was a bit of an exercise in concentration. I suspect that if I had actually driven while in the UK, it would have been worse, but as it was, I was fine. The only problem I encountered was in realizing that, on the highway, I was sufficiently turned around to have no idea which lane was the slow lane and which was the passing lane. But, since none of the other drivers seemed to know either, I didn't worry about it too much. :)
It became clearer to me this morning on the escalator in Port Authority, where habit to stand right and pass left kicked in. I think I'm sorted now.
The best news of the workday so far, is that most of the 463 emails in my work inbox are things I don't have to deal with personally. All are work-related, but fewer than 10 actually require my attention.
(That 463 is not counting all the server admin messages (two per 90-minute interval each workday) that I had set a filter to delete while I was gone. They did delete successfully.)
So, I'm off to deal with work-stuff. Since I don't have much of it to deal with today, distractions are most welcome. I'm currently running in stealth-mode on various chat programs, so if you want to chat, send an email to nudge me into visibility.
