{"id":20169,"date":"2013-06-11T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:14:10","slug":"tuckered-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/tuckered-out-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuckered Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of last night, I averaged 10 hours of typing every day since the first Monday in June. I have another 16 or so left to do by Thursday evening. I&#8217;m surprised I have any skin left on the tips of my fingers!<\/p>\n<p>I wound up having a veeeeeeery slow morning and didn&#8217;t get into the office until about 11:30! Wow, I can&#8217;t remember the last time I wasn&#8217;t working by 7:30!<\/p>\n<p>I ended up working for another client all day and I need to type tonight. I have so much to do to prepare for my early Friday departure that I&#8217;d like to quit by mid-day Thursday and then blitz through the departure list. I can&#8217;t believe my seminar is nowhere near done yet.<\/p>\n<p>I had to make a phone call mid-afternoon, so I headed over to Charles and Caroline&#8217;s place to borrow theirs, but no one was home. Before driving all the way out to highway 2 (about 16KM each way) where I can get a decent phone signal, I decided to head out with the phone, booster, and stubby antenna. Lo and behold, I got a solid two bars only about a kilometre out! I put the phone in the cradle and put the whole kit and caboodle up to my ear since I don&#8217;t have a headset with mic. Worked great! So I&#8217;m starting to think that if I get a slightly bigger antenna, I&#8217;ll get the phone to work here, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rather looking forward to heading out on Friday. It&#8217;ll be so nice to see Ken, Donna, their brood, and their new house. It&#8217;s going to be a long, but easy drive. I asked Caroline how she heads up that way (her sister lives near Stettler) and her route is exactly the one I took last summer to get from Stettler to here.<\/p>\n<p>Having landed here on May 10th, I&#8217;ve been here a full month now. I&#8217;m fairly certain this is the longest I have ever gone without eating out once. I had one meal with the neighbours and that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m rather looking forward to tasting someone else&#8217;s cooking, although I plan to spend plenty of time in Donna&#8217;s kitchen!<\/p>\n<p>I think Neelix will enjoy spending my absence at Charles and Caroline&#8217;s. I think he&#8217;s lonely and they have a sweet kitten. The two of them should get along just fine. No, I have no intention of getting another cat. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled that July income is off to a roaring start since I doubt I&#8217;ll be making much money while I&#8217;m away next week. I&#8217;m also taking a week off in early July for my first proper vacation since I did the Chilkoot in 2009. Charles and Caroline have invited me to fulfill yet another lifelong dream and all it&#8217;ll cost me is a little gas and a couple of pairs of jeans, plus the time off. All I&#8217;m going to say about that right now is that it involves horses. You&#8217;re welcome to put your guesses in the comments. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of last night, I averaged 10 hours of typing every day since the first Monday in June. I have another 16 or so left to do by Thursday evening. I&#8217;m surprised I have any skin left on the tips of my fingers! I wound up having a veeeeeeery slow morning and didn&#8217;t get into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,4,635,5,807,3,8],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-20169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-haven","category-north-america","category-rving","category-saskatchewan","category-travel","category-work","tag-cats-in-an-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}