The day before a long trip (I will be out of town for six weeks) brings a special sort of anxiety. Not that I have anything to complain about. The next month and a half will bring me to Berlin and Paris, among other wonderful places.<\/p>\n
But there is always the nagging feeling that something has been forgotten, an essential detail missed. It is a larger, more amorphous version of the classic panicked question “Did I leave the stove turned on?”<\/p>\n
So I have one more day of worry, of neurotically checking todo lists, cleaning out the fridge, suspending the newspaper, paying a pesky bill or two, and making sure I have all my ducks in a row (whatever that actually means).<\/p>\n
The payoff will come at liftoff, when I can at last sit back in my airplane seat and relax, secure in the knowledge that whatever I have forgotten, there is no longer a damned thing I can do about it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The day before a long trip (I will be out of town for six weeks) brings a special sort of anxiety. Not that I have anything to complain about. The next month and a half will bring me to Berlin and Paris, among other wonderful places. But there is always the nagging feeling that something … Continue reading “Day before a long trip”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16007,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16006\/revisions\/16007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}