laklak wrote:I never understood why anyone would voluntarily live in Central Florida, actually anywhere inland for that matter. If it's countryside you're after there are plenty of much better places, sandspurs, palmettos, and mosquitoes aren't a draw for me. But the coasts are a different animal. The whole point of Florida, IMO, is boats, beaches, and salt water.

On board

Yup ....Cairns Australia would not be very livable would it not for constant on shore from the Pacific limiting the highs to 30 or so - mid 80s.

But humid Florida heat on the interior just not on.....besides ...ain't gonna be there long

scott1328 wrote:La Hacienda Grande

My house is butch.

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Cito di Pense wrote:

jamest wrote:We made it home, couldn't sleep on the plane though so now I guess I've got jet lag. Oh, and some twat has nicked my green bin.

You went only six hours east and you have jet lag? Wimp.

It's actually only 5 hours.

Nice to know, but it doesn't actually make your jet lag more simpatico.

I don't really care about this. I was just having some fun with a confession of jet lag. 5 hours east is more than enough to give most travelers jet lag. Stiff upper lip, and all.

5-6 hours gets me. Didn't in my fine fettled youth, but I've seen the last of that.

Me, I like do an 18-hour flight over the weekend and rock up to the office Monday morning, 8 am.

I just manage two to three hours these days when I have to and that has to be in business class otherwise I would have to carried out of the plane which is why I let the train take the strain these days.

LucidFlight wrote:Me, I like do an 18-hour flight over the weekend and rock up to the office Monday morning, 8 am.

Any office you can "rock up to" doesn't really count. Such an office probably uses enterprise software.

I fly to Vancouver often. I never do the red eye back because it flattens me for the next day. I take the first flight I can get in the morning, do email at the airport, do whatever work I can in an ever increasingly cramped seat, and finish the day back at the airport for a couple of hours catching up on email etc. then head home for rest. It means I don’t miss a day of work and stay on my sleep schedule.

We all could do that many moons ago. I never used to sleep in the weekends.

Age sucks. Might be worth it if the Wisdom Fairy ever finds me, but otherwise I'm just as stupid as I always was but with less endurance.

I had a stroke three months ago and tiredness is now a big problem. "It will take one to two years to get over it". FFS. Life has slowed down.

Jet lag depends a lot on the distance and the time away as well as the direction of flight for reasons I don't quite understand.

My partner apparently suffers no jet lag at all. I'm okay going west to say Hawaii for two weeks with little jet lag tho I get up a tad early.

Going to Australia I'm hopeless for several weeks but I have to work in the wee hours anyways. I'm just now shifted to Cairns time and sleep most of the night and that's 6 weeks out.

It will be worse going back to Toronto in early October. My saving grace is being an easy napper. 1/2 hour and I'm refreshed but at times I just crash and have to sleep



I sleep okay on planes as well...Audible books lets me drift off and good earplugs when I want to shut the sound out.

Of the four of us the jet lag affected me the least. My missus went to bed just before noon on the day we landed (Sunday, UK time) and was up again about 4pm before having a bath and some dinner. She was in bed again about 8:30pm, exhausted. She was then awake about 2am until 6am this morning before going back to bed. I woke her at 1pm today.

My eldest - my step-daughter - refused to go to bed after we landed until midnight (she's 16), but after I woke my wife at 1pm today I also had to wake her up. She didn't get out of bed for 30 minutes.

My 11 year-old daughter, who had laughed at her mum for going to bed at noon once we were home, claimed that she wasn't tired at all. We found her asleep on the floor of her bedroom next to her iPad just after dinner (early evening). She was asleep until 10:30am following.

Myself, I don't usually sleep well in general. I probably average about 5 hours broken sleep a night. My sleep problems suffice in general to know that going to bed at any time before midnight is a bad idea, so I resisted the urge. It was difficult though.

Yes, I have a new-found experiential awareness and appreciation of jet lag.

Did you get to NASA

Macdoc wrote:Did you get to NASA

No squire, unfortunately I didn't. I wanted to go there, but having 3 females in tow who have zero interest in such things is a problem, especially when you're based in Orlando/Disney.

I also had a similar problem with Gettysburg, but my interest in history did suffice to drag them around the fields of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. It was a hard slog though. I mean, you do have kids? You know what I mean.

Hmmmph henpecked. My kids were all over it ....including dottor.

I’m thinking they just weren’t interested.

Is there a difference between males and females in the interest of space? I wasn't aware.