{"id":573898130,"date":"2025-07-07T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898130"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T21:39:43","slug":"welcome-back-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/welcome-back-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK then, back to the normal things. How have your last few days been? I&#8217;m getting my eastern time zone legs back under me, thanks. Tuesday night was our first night back home, and so naturally I was awake at 6 a.m. on Wednesday. THursday morning my internal alarm came to life at 7:30. We can darken the bedroom, so I can&#8217;t blame early morning light. <\/p>\n<p>I went to the office for a while on Thursday, and then spent the rest of the day at the library. On Friday, and today, I have been doing some work finishing up the design for a fall class. I have one week left to build, and then some supplemental things to sprinkle throughout the term for that course, but I&#8217;m pleased with how it&#8217;s come together so far. (Now, who wants to make the syllabus for me?) For the Fourth we had ribs and that was about it. The weekend was similarly low key. <\/p>\n<p>Happily, the cats welcomed us home with little grief, and we all slipped back into the normal rhythm of the house. And then Phoebe made a good point: feature us on the site, or Poe will do something wacky, and you know how wacky he can be.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She was not wrong &#8230; We had some baked goods stored in the microwave to keep them out of reach. I opened the thing to heat something up, walked away to do something else in the kitchen, came back and found that the door wouldn&#8217;t close. <\/p>\n<p>The door is an automatic thing. There&#8217;s an Open and Close button on the microwave. I bet you can guess what those buttons do. Only the Close button suddenly only worked halfway. I pressed that button two or three times with dissatisfaction, and then looked down to see what the problem was.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july03.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So the cats are doing well, thanks for asking. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerbike2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We went for a bike ride on Friday. I got dropped, but only because I caught traffic at every intersection. A bit later we crossed paths near the turnaround point. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july04.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had another ride today, only because I couldn&#8217;t drag myself out this weekend. Today, it was hot, and muggy. When I got in it was 80 degrees with 90 percent humidity. It felt a lot like home. You forget how it feels when that mugginess saps your energy. This was as bright as the whole ride got. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, in 25 miles I was only passed by 21 cars and I only had to unclip and put my foot down one time, so it was a nice little ride. <\/p>\n<p>Now seriously, who wants to work on a syllabus for me? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK then, back to the normal things. How have your last few days been? I&#8217;m getting my eastern time zone legs back under me, thanks. 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