{"id":135,"date":"2006-05-21T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-05-21T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T08:39:48","slug":"one-foot-out-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"One Foot Out the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is probably abundantly clear, I haven&#8217;t really been updating this space so much lately.  Work and a houseguest and preparation to leave have made it hard to find the time.  The fact that Amy is doing such a great job documenting what&#8217;s going on in our household over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/amy\/\">her site<\/a> makes it hard to see the point.<\/p>\n<p>With less than 48 hours left till we head back to the States, I&#8217;m experiencing the sensation not unlike being at the end of a vacation and sitting at the hotel waiting to go to the airport.  If not for wanting to see some of our friends one last time, I would be just as happy sitting in my office in NYC or our new house in Austin right now.  Tonight we&#8217;re going up to the mountains with Mike, Bjorn, and some other regularly occurring characters for a final throwdown.  Tomorrow will be all packing and errands.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is it.  It&#8217;s been fun but I don&#8217;t see myself keeping up this journal once we&#8217;re back in the U.S.  Though who knows?  Maybe I will be inspired by my fuel-efficiency research, quest for the perfect BBQ ribs, and the vagaries of home ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for tuning in over the past year.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/images\/spinningamy.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"blogPhoto\"\/><br \/>\nThough I was expressly forbidden to spin the cars on the ferris wheel last night, that didn&#8217;t stop Amy from doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is probably abundantly clear, I haven&#8217;t really been updating this space so much lately. Work and a houseguest and preparation to leave have made it hard to find the time. The fact that Amy is doing such a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}