{"id":318,"date":"2005-06-03T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2005-06-03T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T17:21:33","slug":"mr_cranky_pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/mr_cranky_pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Cranky Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&#8217;s me.  Because I had to roll out of bed at 0445 to get to a check in counter for a 0645 flight back to HKG.  I got in from BKK around 2330 and was updating the blog and talking on the phone until 0100.  Then shower and shave and pack.  Bedtime: 0200.  Bleagh!<br \/>\nThe A\/C in the wing of the transit hotel where my room was was working backwards (blowing humidity instead of dry air).  Because of that, my A\/C in the room was also blowing cool humidity too.<br \/>\nIf I could take that room and turn it into a walk-in humidor, that would have been perfect.<br \/>\nThen to add to my crankiness, my flight to HKG was on UAL.  I ran into a &#8220;flight attendant&#8221; at the McDonald&#8217;s near the gate.  Apparently she&#8217;s not too fond of the inflight food either?<br \/>\nIt was a typical UAL flight.  Screaming babies, indifferent service and crowded.  I was sooo tired.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/uabreakfast.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/uabreakfast.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/uabreakfast-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI ate what passed for &#8220;breakfast&#8221;, had some coffee, slipped into superhero mode (sleep mask) and passed out for 2 hours.<br \/>\nOf course the movie on the big screen was &#8220;National Treasure&#8221;; that may have had something to do with it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&#8217;s me. Because I had to roll out of bed at 0445 to get to a check in counter for a 0645 flight back to HKG. I got in from BKK around 2330 and was updating the blog and talking on the phone until 0100. Then shower and shave and pack. Bedtime: 0200. Bleagh! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/mr_cranky_pants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Cranky Pants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-58","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}