{"id":2467,"date":"2015-05-22T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T16:21:18","slug":"back-from-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2467","title":{"rendered":"Back from the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And into the wet, steamy heart of Texas.\u00a0\u00a0 All went well.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture of the knitting that got done on the trip:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Socks-onna-train.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Socks-onna-train.jpg\" alt=\"Socks-onna-train\" width=\"350\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Socks-onna-train.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Socks-onna-train-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><em>Socks-onna-train<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">OK,\u00a0 the picture isn&#8217;t actually of socks on the train, but of the socks (and sock parts) knitted on the trip&#8230;a lot of it train knitting, but knitting also happened in departure lounges , on a bus,\u00a0 in the air, in hotel rooms, during panels at KeyCon.\u00a0 When I started the trip, the cuffs of the socks on my feet were about half or less the length of the cuffs shown above, and now (obviously) they&#8217;re finished.\u00a0 The last sock was completed about an hour from the train station at the end of the trip.\u00a0 The first sock was finished about an hour before Dallas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I spent yesterday alternately napping, doing laundry,\u00a0 and working on backlog stuff that came in while I was gone with occasional dashes onto the internet and a very unproductive time starting at the book (was too tired to get into first-draft mode.)\u00a0\u00a0 Still a bit wiped out.\u00a0\u00a0 OTOH, the trip to the Field Museum in Chicago was productive and so was meeting Dr. David L. Clements at KeyCon (astrophysicist, but he had an answer for me to a question that&#8217;s been nagging on the effect of continental placement on near-polar ocean currents.)\u00a0 We were on a panel together on hard &amp; soft science, and had pretty much the same approach.\u00a0 Also had a good panel on military fiction with David Weber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And into the wet, steamy heart of Texas.\u00a0\u00a0 All went well.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a picture of the knitting that got done on the trip: Socks-onna-train<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}