{"id":68,"date":"1999-10-25T17:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-10-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/10\/25\/back_from_the_t\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:40:19","slug":"back_from_the_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/10\/25\/back_from_the_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the Tumult"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at last after a tumultuous few days.<\/strong> I’m feeling a little exhausted, and my throat feels a little scratchy. If I have strep throat again, I may as well shoot myself, ‘cuz I just don’t have time to deal. I’ve already ignored my long list of things to do by going to Baltimore and Washington last week. It wasn’t all frivolous, though: I went to the Miles 33<\/a> User’s Group<\/a> Meeting out by the glamorous BWI Airport<\/a>, and then down to Washington, D.C., for a visit with Jim<\/a> and Frank on Friday and then a party and Kris and Casey<\/a>‘s on saturday. Whoo! What a whirlwind!<\/p>\n

Speaking of whirlwinds, I had the kookiest evening Thursday at Hurricane’s<\/a>, the bar\/dance club attached to the BWI Airport sheraton<\/a>. Not only did I find myself at a trashy, packed airport bar in the middle of nowhere with former and possibly-future co-workers, but it was also ladies night at the club. As you can imagine, that made the whole thing even classier. But, just when we’d hit a good jaded-urbanites-dishing-the-townies groove, an assortment of cast members from The Real World<\/i><\/a> and Road Rules<\/i><\/a> walked in. No camera crews, no fanfare, just the sudden appearance of Jason, Kameelah, Kalle, Norman, and Matt (if I identified them all properly). Freaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back at last after a tumultuous few days. I’m feeling a little exhausted, and my throat feels a little scratchy. If I have strep throat again, I may as well shoot myself, ‘cuz I just don’t have time to deal. I’ve already ignored my long list of things to do by going to Baltimore and … Continue reading “Back from the Tumult”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69720,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}