Today it’s June 30th and I’m back home, desperately trying to stay awake and cursing about the damp weather. 100+ F weather isn’t bad at all in the US, it’s a dry heat. If temps reach the 80s on the Fahrenheit scale, it’s less bareble than San Antonio under a heat advisory. Honestly. But I won’t whine about the weather. I’m back home in one piece and I had a BLAST. I so want to go back next year.
So the whole CNMC was great, had a great time listening to different speakers, talk to people have a great time with friends, wat a blessing it was. I learned a lot about many things, I’m inspired to move my podcasting and my blogging to another level, but I need to find a balance in my life first. I’m still recovering from the havoc my meds wreaked. It’s not easy to get back in a balanced life if you just escaped from a black hole. But the whole CNMC and my own vocation are so motivating to work hard for it. It’s not something I do for myself, but for God and His Kingdom. I need to fight hard, but it’s for a good cause, right?
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People who follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Plurk or Flickr may have seen some photos popping up already and I posted a picture of me being dumped dropped off at Father Roderick’s hotel room waiting for Jeff and Lisa to show up. We had a great time and I managed to take some pictures afterwards which you can find on my Flickr page. As I predicted, I don’t have much time to write long posts, but I try to quickly type something. My roommate, Stephanie is to the gym and I am awake an hour earlier than yesterday, but I just refused to get up before 6:00 AM Central Daylight Time. After this is being posted I need to call my dad to reassure him I’m fine. I already know he’s completely confused about the time difference. I cannot call before bed, because it will be in the middle of the night in the Netherlands, during the day I won’t have time, so I do it around 7:00 AM, which would be 2:00 PM his time. It’s so weird to do that kind of calculation. I’m used to quickly calculate how late it is in the VS when I’m in Europe, but doing it the other way around feels really weird. Not that my body has any sense of time. Jetlag is just a weird experience for someone who never left the Central European Time Zone.
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… it doesn’t take long before both my MacBook and my Zoom H2 digital recorder are used by someone else… 
Today it’s June 25 and I am in Roswell, Georgia using CaptJeff’s network to give an update on how things are going. It’s an ungodly hour: 5:27AM Eastern Daylight Time and I am wide awake, getting a first hand experience of the “Jet Lag” phenomenon. I think I went to bed around 9:30 PM yesterday evening after being awake for more than 24 hours. Let be give a brief recap on what happened so far.
So yesterday I got up at 3:30 AM Amsterdam time, so I would be ready at 4:45 AM to walk to the railway station to catch the 5:45 AM or the 06:04 AM train to Schiphol Airport. I ended up catching the 6:04 AM train, hoping it wouldn’t have a delay, since I would be at the airport around 09:00 AM, with my plane leaving around 10:20 AM. I hoped that would be enough time to check in as a stand-by passenger. The train part of the trip went well, apart from the fact I got fined when we barely left Groningen Central Station. I was half asleep when I bought the ticket and purchased a train ticket with 40% reduction before 9:00 AM, because I never travel before that time. I couldn’t pay in cash for it, because I didn’t have any cash on me. The plan was to get some money later that day before checking in. I knew I would pass an ING ATM while walking to the departure hall. So it would be send to me and I would have it within 7 days. Fine, I wouldn’t be at home anyway. *SIGH*
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My podcast coming out of limbo, Babylon 5, CNMC preparation: getting a new phone – Sony Ericsson C905. Music: Night Dance by Green Druid and Sonshine by Freja Bluegrass Band.
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Today it’s June 30th and I’m back home, desperately trying to stay awake and cursing about the damp weather. 100+ F weather isn’t bad at all in the US, it’s a dry heat. If temps reach the 80s on the Fahrenheit scale, it’s less bareble than San Antonio under a heat advisory. Honestly. But I won’t whine about the weather. I’m back home in one piece and I had a BLAST. I so want to go back next year.
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