Balls and Walnuts
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Well, we’re back
and I’m tired the way working makes you tired after you haven’t been working in a good long while. I’d like to say, “Vacation is never long enough,” but that’s not true. As a kid, summer vacations were always way too long for me. Sorry, but I liked school and I didn’t like being home 24-7. Fast forward to internship, and we all got two count ’em two months off during the year (not back to back, thank heavens). Four weeks was way too much time off, especially since the horror of internship lurked just around the corner. You knew you were obliged to return to the grind, and that took much of the pleasure out of your time off. But, really, four weeks was too too much.
Our honeymoon was a three-week trip to Europe, our one and only vacation there, and I doubt we’ll ever make it back, though you never can tell. It’s the jet lag that killed us — I think it took us a good four or five days to adjust. We would have to take several weeks off to make it worthwhile, and that’s not very easy in my current job. Although people do it — take their three or four weeks off in a block, and go back to see their families in the Philippines, or India, or China.
I maintain that the most relaxing vacations are the ones you spend at home, on your ass, book or laptop in hand, nothing to do but veg out. And I think I know why I feel that way: I like sleeping in my own bed, with my own pillow, on my own damn mattress.
Very bizarre dream while on vacation. Can’t go into great detail here (mixed company, after all) but it involved roughly cylindrical items, lubrication, and malpractice lawyers. *shiver*
Tech question for y’all. I need to convert 8 mm film (our old home movies, which my dad just passed on to me) into DVD. Lots of folks online say they’ll do it, but how do I decide whom to use?
D.
Re: film. If you’ve got a lot of it, I’d maybe try sending one reel to a place to see how they do. One reel to each of 5 places, I mean, and then picking the best one for the rest.
That’s all I got, I have no experience with such as this.
That’s the trouble I’ve always found with vacations…you enjoy seeing the sites, eating the food, but it’s the travel time that exhausts you. There is much to be said for “staycations” and your own bed/pillow. The best time I’ve ever had recently was my week off at Thanksgiving where I was able to stay here and “catch up”.
Those 8 mm are a piece of history.
Thanks for the advice, Dean. Believe it or not, I hadn’t thought to send out a small test to see if they would do a good job or not.
Sis, I’ll make sure you get a copy 🙂