{"id":7046,"date":"2004-11-08T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/08\/objects-in-itinerary-are-closer-than-they-appear.html"},"modified":"2004-11-08T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T13:48:04","slug":"objects_in_itin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/08\/objects_in_itin.html","title":{"rendered":"Objects in Itinerary are Closer Than They Appear &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and that trip to a couple of offices in the UK has gone from &#8220;Some weeks out&#8221; to &#8220;OMG, I leave in less than a week!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s a business trip.  I&#8217;ve done a zillion of those before.  Ah, but this is a business trip to two locations I&#8217;ve never been to before, and in a foreign country to boot.  Now, I&#8217;ve travelled recreationally in the UK, but that&#8217;s a bit different.  More city stuff this time, more using cabs and the train, and significantly less (gulp) Margie to keep me on an even keel.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the unpleasant part.  Not being 100% certain of where I&#8217;m going or what I&#8217;ll do while I&#8217;m there is one thing.  Not having Margie around is a significantly less enjoyable aspect of the whole trip.<\/p>\n<p>So, meantime, I&#8217;m busy gathering up stuff to take with me on the guest bed, worrying about voltage for my PC and cell phone and palm, and keen stuff like that.  Actually, it&#8217;s the power thing that has me worried the most at the moment (with visions of Doyce&#8217;s burnt-out Palm dancing in my head).  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Palm:  I can recharge this (via USB) through my PC.\n<li>Cell Phone:  My Nokia charger says, on the back, &#8220;Input: AC 100-240V &#8230; Output: DC 5.7V.&#8221;  That says to me that, prongy stuff aside (and I have a set of adapters for the UK), my charger can plug into a British outlet and work just fine.\n<li>PC:  The power brick for my ThinkPad says something very much like the cell phone charger &#8212; &#8220;Input: AC 100-240V.&#8221;  Which I read to me that, prongs aside, I&#8217;m stylin&#8217;.<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so I come from an era when stuff was built for either NA 110 or European 220, and using one in the other was a guarantee for bursts of flame, loud popping noises, and lots of blog entries.  It&#8217;s looking like, in reality, all these adapters are now designed to handle both voltage levels without blinking (or popping), and it&#8217;s so self-evident that they don&#8217;t even need to mention it anywhere.  If so, keen.  If not &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it will be an interesting trip, and I will manage to eke out some fun, and there will be amusing anecdotes, and I will get a lot of productive work done.  But it&#8217;s not going to be a holiday, by any means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and that trip to a couple of offices in the UK has gone from &#8220;Some weeks out&#8221; to &#8220;OMG, I leave in less than a week!&#8221; Okay, so it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/2024-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":7046,"position":0},"title":"2024 in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Dec-24 2:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Where I would say to my 2023 self, \"I got some good news, and some bad news.\"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-recap-1-224x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12070,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/a_brief_return_to_normalc.html","url_meta":{"origin":7046,"position":1},"title":"A brief return to normalcy &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Nov-07 10:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Monday. 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