{"id":2365,"date":"2005-12-20T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/canadia-day-1-the-more-things-change\/"},"modified":"2005-12-20T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T21:24:00","slug":"canadia-day-1-the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/canadia-day-1-the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadia &#8211; day 1 &#8211; The more things change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key points from yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International air travel is boring. We spent 7.5 hours sitting down at 36,000ft\n<li>The little screen above us had shit-poor picture quality and the larger screen at the front of the cabin was projecting in sepiatone. WTF? I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it was painful because it was between fuzzy reception and blurry sepiatone. Fun.\n<li>Customs at Ottawa airport were interesting because I didn&apos;t know if I should declare myself a visitor or a resident. Given that I don&apos;t have a current address in Canada, I had to declare myself a visitor to my own damn country :)\n<li>It&apos;s somewhat amusing that all our clothing fits inside a carry-on bag, but we still brought a fucking huge and heavy suitcase full of prezzies.<\/ul>\n<p>I finished wrapping most of the presents up this morning while Katy was having a nap. It&apos;s good that she&apos;s finally getting some rest &#8211; it&apos;ll do her good. I want this trip to be stress-free and fun-filled. I&apos;m looking into how we&apos;re going to get to Montreal tomorrow. I&apos;m thinking the train, because that would drop us off directly at Bonaventure, right at the Salon des Metiers d&apos;arts.<\/p>\n<p>It&apos;s weird a bit to be back in Canada. It seems that I really settled into Cambridge life. When I walked into my folks&apos; house, I saw all the old surroundings and all my old stuff that I couldn&apos;t bring. Like my TV. Damn, that thing was big. From talking to Katy, it probably wouldn&apos;t even fit inside our flat. <\/p>\n<p>As to the title of this post, I&apos;m currently fixing my dad&apos;s computer :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key points from yesterday: International air travel is boring. We spent 7.5 hours sitting down at 36,000ft The little screen above us had shit-poor picture quality and the larger screen at the front of the cabin was projecting in sepiatone. WTF? I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and it was painful because it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/canadia-day-1-the-more-things-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Canadia &#8211; day 1 &#8211; The more things change&#8230;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,55,257],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers-are-evil","tag-holidays","tag-i-am-canadian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-C9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}