{"id":720,"date":"2004-06-09T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/720"},"modified":"2009-02-06T13:06:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T21:06:42","slug":"back-in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/720","title":{"rendered":"Back in the saddle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or is it, out of the saddle and sleeping in the ditch?<br \/>\nYesterday, I returned to Vancouver. I was welcomed by four members of<br \/>\nmy way-too-big family and we had a huge dinner with even more family<br \/>\nand friends, that night. I could barely stay up near the end, as I did<br \/>\nnot really get any sleep on the plane. At the time, I thought I might<br \/>\nas well watch the two movies they showed on the 8.5 hour flight from<br \/>\nTokyo.<br \/>\nToday, I woke up at 3pm. All of my clocks that are still set to Japan<br \/>\ntime say 3pm, tomorrow. Ironic. Things have changed, but not so much<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m blown away or anything. My poor computer that I left in the<br \/>\nhands of my family needs some serious TLC. I will do that tomorrow,<br \/>\nmaybe.<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t had the chance to get in touch with friends, yet&#8230;. they&#8217;re<br \/>\nbusy; unlike me. Let me see, I have no job, school, or plans of any<br \/>\nsort until September &#8211; when I start school once again. Yikes. Could I<br \/>\nactually get bored? This is entirely likely. I need to establish some<br \/>\nindependent goals. I have one in mind: make a simple computer game.<br \/>\nOnce I have something made (anything!), I can use it as a reference.<br \/>\nHopefully, for my next Co-Op position, I can get into a company that<br \/>\nmakes games&#8230;.<br \/>\nI think I should switch my clocks to Vancouver time, now&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or is it, out of the saddle and sleeping in the ditch? Yesterday, I returned to Vancouver. I was welcomed by four members of my way-too-big family and we had a huge dinner with even more family and friends, that night. I could barely stay up near the end, as I did not really get&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/720\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back in the saddle&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,211],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-japan","tag-ljimport","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-bC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}