{"id":7570,"date":"2012-12-02T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2012-12-02T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T06:29:39","slug":"finally-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7570","title":{"rendered":"Finally back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back for over two weeks and I&#8217;m finally feeling like I have some time to get back to this blog. It took a week to dig out of two months of mail. I went back to work and had to dig out of two months of email. It took about a week to fix my crashing Mac (I blame iCloud) and I think my new firewall machine is fairly stable.<\/p>\n<p>I even had jet lag for a while. I never have jet lag but I realized that&#8217;s probably just because usually I only go to Japan for two weeks. Two months is quite different. I&#8217;m glad to be sleeping in my own bed in a house where there&#8217;s not much noise rather than in a hotel where I had to sleep with earplugs in. The best thing about being home is the giant washer\/dryer.<\/p>\n<p>The food back at home isn&#8217;t as good as on vacation. Good, but not great. The baked cod at Besaw&#8217;s was good, but not great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7571\" title=\"IMG_2336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2336-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2336-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2336-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2336-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Beaujolais Nouveau at Olympic Provisions that they said was good was passable. The meat plate was EXCELLENT (so I guess some things are great).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7572\" title=\"IMG_2338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2338-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2338-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2338-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2338-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The burger at Besaw&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t great (a little too salty) but the butterscotch pudding was great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2343.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7573\" title=\"IMG_2343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2343-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2343-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2343-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_2343-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the burger at Meriwether&#8217;s was better, but still way too salty. So far the best burger I&#8217;ve had since I got back was at Five Guys.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting used to being home again, and that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been back for over two weeks and I&#8217;m finally feeling like I have some time to get back to this blog. It took a week to dig out of two months of mail. I went back to work and had to dig out of two months of email. It took about a week to fix my crashing Mac (I blame iCloud) and I think my new firewall machine is fairly stable. I even had jet lag for a while. I never have jet lag but I realized that&#8217;s probably just because usually I only go to Japan for two weeks. Two months is quite different. I&#8217;m glad to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally back.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-7570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7577,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7570\/revisions\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}