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Home Once More
Nov. 11th, 2021 06:07 pmDespite having been up for more than 22 hours yesterday and getting to bed in the hotel room at the Holiday Inn Express in Reno at about 12:30 AM, I woke up after only a bit more than three hours of sleep, ahead of my alarm clock, and got to work on the bit of stuff I have been doing for Day Jobbe each day. That job wasn't as difficult while I was in Montreal because the deadline on it is about 8 AM Eastern time. In any case, once I finished doing it, I (to my surprise) was not sleepy enough to go back to bed. I did a few other things until the included breakfast opened, and I went downstairs, got a tray, and acquired breakfast as quickly as I could, to minimize exposure to the other people down there who were ignoring COVID restrictions.
After breakfast, I finally wound down sufficiently to go back to bed for a while. Having arranged for a late check-out, I didn't have to worry about the time. My body, however, has a scrambled clock. I did manage to sleep for three 1-hour blocks with a brief wake up in between them. After the third one, I gave up on any further attempts, made a cup of coffee in the in-room coffee maker, took a shower, got dressed, and packed up (without as much rush as I had yesterday). I didn't even use the full two hours of extra check-out time, which looked to be a relief to housekeeping.
I got back home, where Lisa (who has decided to isolate herself in her travel trailer from me for a few days as a precaution) left me a refrigerator full of supplies (including two small pumpkin pies). When she saw I was home, she called me and we talked for a while. I slowly unpacked and restored my computers to their home configuration. I miss the days of the drop-in docking stations, which allowed me to just leave the home configuration alone and simply dock or undock the laptops; however, docking stations appear to be a think of the past, and so I have to re-connect all of the various external cables to get things working again.
Because of the Day Jobbe stuff I was doing during this trip, I have tomorrow off as well — except of course that 60-90 minute part at 4 AM. Well, it balances out in the end, I guess.
Tonight, I should be getting an early night of things, and it seems to me that it should not be difficult to get to sleep. Maybe I should have one of those slices of pumpkin pie first, though....
After breakfast, I finally wound down sufficiently to go back to bed for a while. Having arranged for a late check-out, I didn't have to worry about the time. My body, however, has a scrambled clock. I did manage to sleep for three 1-hour blocks with a brief wake up in between them. After the third one, I gave up on any further attempts, made a cup of coffee in the in-room coffee maker, took a shower, got dressed, and packed up (without as much rush as I had yesterday). I didn't even use the full two hours of extra check-out time, which looked to be a relief to housekeeping.
I got back home, where Lisa (who has decided to isolate herself in her travel trailer from me for a few days as a precaution) left me a refrigerator full of supplies (including two small pumpkin pies). When she saw I was home, she called me and we talked for a while. I slowly unpacked and restored my computers to their home configuration. I miss the days of the drop-in docking stations, which allowed me to just leave the home configuration alone and simply dock or undock the laptops; however, docking stations appear to be a think of the past, and so I have to re-connect all of the various external cables to get things working again.
Because of the Day Jobbe stuff I was doing during this trip, I have tomorrow off as well — except of course that 60-90 minute part at 4 AM. Well, it balances out in the end, I guess.
Tonight, I should be getting an early night of things, and it seems to me that it should not be difficult to get to sleep. Maybe I should have one of those slices of pumpkin pie first, though....
