{"id":124,"date":"2013-08-23T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:45:15","slug":"day-eleven-holy-e-its-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Day Eleven – Holy *\u20ac\u00a3@ It’s Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who turned off the warmth?
\nI mean, it was a little chilly in the transition between plane & embarkation tube thingy, but that’s to be expected. This on the Big Red Couch with a blanket<\/em> thing, on the other hand, goes to show just how quickly you can get used to Indianapolis weather.<\/p>\n

The flight back to Auckland was pretty uneventful*, just long<\/strong> & dull. Napping occurred, but not uninterrupted sleep, and I’m trying to stay awake during the day so as to accelerate the adjustment to a new time zone.
\n* there were two people in my earshot who either hadn’t pre-ordered the special meal, or who had done so in such a way that it didn’t get through to catering<\/em><\/p>\n

Breakfast happened early on flight NZ7 thanks to possible Clear Air Turbulence on our route at a bad time for food service. The turbulence didn’t eventuate, and an entirely ordinary landing happened.<\/p>\n

No luggage hassles this time, thankfully, other than the delay of a 747-load of luggage all at once & the difficulty of spotting your personal bag on the carousel through all of the other people doing exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n

Biosecurity was a non-event, as cooked seed things aren’t a thing they’re worried about, though they did<\/em> X-Ray both of my bags, I’m assuming as part of the “well, since you declared things …” process.<\/p>\n

Kevin & Tonya had braved the cold, dark & fog to pick me up, and drove me back to the flat, putting up with barely-coherent Wooo Gen Con!<\/em><\/strong> ramblings along the way.<\/p>\n

My goal for the day was to go to bed at a reasonable time, and not to sleep too much<\/em> during the day.
\nYes to the first one, but given that it’s 2:40 am, may have taken too many micro naps, or macro naps.
\n~shrug~<\/p>\n

Aside from the horrible cough, I feel pretty good, and I have already started the preliminary noodling with bits of paper<\/em> for 2015.
\nWorldCon 2014 in London almost exactly overlaps GenCon, but the same is not true of the proposed but not-yet-voted-upon Helsinki 2015; There is a three-day gap between the two, so it would technically<\/em> be possible to attend both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who turned off the warmth? I mean, it was a little chilly in the transition between plane & embarkation tube thingy, but that’s to be expected. This on the Big Red Couch with a blanket thing, on the other hand, goes to show just how quickly you can get used to Indianapolis weather. The flight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gencon2013"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-20","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}