{"id":573898697,"date":"2026-03-10T20:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898697"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:27:06","slug":"so-where-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/10\/so-where-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"So where are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have arrived at our intended destination. All went according to plane. Onto a plane quickly and easily. Flight departed on time and landed on time. Plane landed at the right airport. I actually slept a bit on the plane. You can&#8217;t count on all of those things, particularly the last one. But it happened &#8212; sleep, I mean &#8212; and now I am cured of jet lag. <\/p>\n<p>I am a notoriously bad flier. I can feel jet lagged by staying in the same time zone. It also takes me a two or three days to feel like a human again after a trip begins (or ends). Some of this is surely about how much I sleep in the days leading up to a trip. Usually that&#8217;s not a lot, but I usually don&#8217;t sleep that much anyway. Then there&#8217;s the travel. The moving stuff around, making faces at the airport, dealing with luggage, the dehydration of the whole travel experience. The miracles of modern travel, whatever. And then I&#8217;m just not sleeping on a plane, even when you&#8217;re supposed to. Too much noise. Sleeping as you perceptibly move is a weird idea. I have stuff to read, or work to do. And there are movies and things. Then there&#8217;s that seat, which is not designed for someone with a spinal column. And always the guy in front of you. And the noise associated with the perceptible travel. Oh, I can make a lot of excuses for it all, but I&#8217;m just a lousy traveler. I just hope I can remain decent company. <\/p>\n<p>And to stay awake the next day, which is today. This, Tuesday, D\u00e9 M\u00e1irt, or Purplasday or whatever day this actually is. <\/p>\n<p>Never mind the when. You had to figure out the where. Here&#8217;s one more hint. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar26\/mar05.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We walked around with friends, people from other states and from other countries as we all assembled and were trying to keep each other awake. I ran across one more hint on our pedestrian journey. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar26\/mar06.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Later, we walked by this building and everyone pointed and laughed at this mural. I was too tired to understand the joke, so I took a photo so that I could figure it out later. I still have no idea why it was funny, but many smart people thought it was.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/mar26\/mar07.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And we have successfully stayed awake on our first full day in Dublin. We are here to attend two conferences, which start tomorrow and Friday. I will be networking and presenting research and grading. I have a lot of that to do tomorrow. And that, somehow, will be how I bleed off the last of the jet lag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have arrived at our intended destination. All went according to plane. Onto a plane quickly and easily. Flight departed on time and landed on time. Plane landed at the right airport. I actually slept a bit on the plane. You can&#8217;t count on all of those things, particularly the last one. 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