Sure. Everbody goes to bed, right when I am about to announce that I am coming back to the U-S 'o-freakin'- A, the day after tomorrow.

Savin, the stodgy pharmaceutical company I have been slaving in Switzerland for, have agreed to go tele-remote for the rest of my involvement with the project. Booyah.

Switzerland has been great, but I miss the house where I made all my parenting mistakes.

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Some people are, like, at work and stuff, Mr "I'm going back to the majority's timezone". Um, which is a strange way to spell "congrats, Gus!". It's good that you're going to be back at the place you missed.

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Nilly!

Sorry, gal, the nightshift will soon be all yours again. I wil not be in the "majority timezone", however. I'll be in the CT zone, two hours removed from the you-can't-smoke-in- here -the-smell-ruins-the-taste-of-my-guacamole-martini timezone.

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Mmmmm..guacamole martini.

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It's the timezone in which now is the nightshift. 3 hours here or there are negligible, as the physicists would say.

However, I'm so little here these days (see ND's longings for a real night shift lately), that it can't even be considered mine anymore. Oh, well. As long as you're happy to be going home.

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Ah, yes, Wisconsin! If you were to walk into a bar and order a guacamole martini there, the barkeep would engage you in a long converstion about the Packers football team, while one of the other patrons hussled off to summon an exorcist.

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Yeah, we seem to have lost most of the late night crew. BT is back in Australia but other other Australians don't come around any more and there aren't as many folks who haunt the electronic halls quite like I do anymore.

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I'd be here a lot more except for not having internet access. Basically I can only post when I concentrate really really hard. It helps to have some kind of focus item, like a computer or a Buffy DVD or something, but mainly it's just pure willpower to protect my virtual self into the net.

But yay Gus for being homeward bound! I ran into a tourist group from Wisconsin last week - they were wearing shorts, which was really bothering the Greeks ("But it's winter! Aren't you cold?!").

Burrell, would taking a lukewarm bath help? I've hit the point where it's just not possible for me to get enough sleep at night

Wrod. I've taken to sleeping in the tub or in the papasan. The tub is a little better because a) buoyancy and b) no cat, but I worry about sliding under the water. Which I shouldn't, because I'm pretty well wedged in there. But I do recommend at least a lukewarm soak to help with the sleeping.

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I watched 30 minutes of Point Pleasant and my God, I want those minutes back. It's just godawful. Crap acting, blah dialog, shoddy editing, ludicrous premise--you name it, it's got it. What the hell is Marti doing?

I don't think I made it 10 minutes, and I still feel ripped off.

Switzerland has been great, but I miss the house where I made all my parenting mistakes.

Hee. Safe travels back home, Gus.

I think the central time zone Buffistas potentially have it made. They're not usually the first ones here, so there's usually a little real time conversation by the time they get here. And (Gus excepted) they're seldom the last ones here, thus avoiding the position of poster who kills a thread for the night.

As far as I know, we didn't get dirty bombed, yet. *sigh*

Hi, Nilly.

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Not that terrorists are necessarily the most logical ones around, but why dirty-bomb Boston, the city in the state of the losing opposition candidate, when you've got a perfectly lovely Inaugural to crash in the symbolic center of the Great Satan US?

Only if you're a Republican Terrorist, evidently... and I don't mean Republican Guard, either.

In other news, timelies!

We've got a a pristine blanket of snow out there, about an inch and a half. And I just checked the weather forecast, and we won't be above freezing for at least the next five days....

Why couldn't this weather have happened last week, when I was in sunny and t-shirty Tucson?

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