{"id":8,"date":"2019-06-25T05:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T05:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/?p=8"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:42:30","slug":"so-ryan-how-was-your-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/2019\/06\/25\/so-ryan-how-was-your-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"So Ryan, How was your vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know how to go on vacation without some really, really specific prompts. And this year, thanks to some family business my lovely bride had to take care of, I was on my own for six weeks. We\u2019re in week six of this \u201cvacation\u201d and here\u2019s a table of things done, and not done:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Did on Vacation<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Didn\u2019t on Vacation<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Spent a week negotiating a contract<\/td><td>Camping<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Attended a union meeting in Terrace<\/td><td>Personal development<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rode bicycle 200 km in the dark<\/td><td>Swam at the beach<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Helped run a provincial championship bike race<\/td><td>Worked on my novel<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So yeah, good vacation! <br><br>I kid. First, union-related matters don\u2019t count as actual vacation time, just time I wasn\u2019t in the office. And I enjoyed the things I did very much (Except maybe one part where I threw myself into the ground very hard, that I could have done without). I wanted to do more of many things (most notably the motorcycle project) but we all make the choices we make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the gripping hand, I do feel it\u2019s really important, at least for me personally, to structure a vacation as a proper away-from-the-house retreat from ordinary business. Otherwise, I don\u2019t really get much of that rest-and-recharge experience that makes a good vacation so lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is probably a meta-point: I like to say that there are people who for some reason get into a lot of bar fights, and there are people who avoid the bars that have bar fights. It\u2019s not that you can\u2019t theoretically make a staycation work, but there\u2019s a lot of value in the simple physical act of running away from your standard location, and the attendant default behavior, not to say ruts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know how to go on vacation without some really, really specific prompts. And this year, thanks to some family business my lovely bride had to take care of, I was on my own for six weeks. We\u2019re in week six of this \u201cvacation\u201d and here\u2019s a table of things done, and not done: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredcola.com\/wifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}