Jet Lag

I had to succumb to exhaustion and jet lag today. This was weird, because yesterday I was fine for almost all of the day. Today, I hit around 3:00pm and I wanted to pass out. I made it until about 5:30pm when I fell asleep, virtually in front of the computer back in my hotel room. I managed to crawl to the bed and set the alarm so that I'd go and get dinner, and not sleep until 2:00am.

This is always a trap with this kind of travel. There is nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night absolutely wide awake and thinking "Yep, ready to go now, but I must sleep!" I can only begin to imagine how insomniacs feel. Yuck! It didn't help that I was up late last night trying to sort out some work stuff going on at home.

Things continue to remind me how far away I am. Last night, we had a reception party at the hotel where the conference I am attending is being held. The hotel faces the Gulf of Mexico, and I went down to the beach to watch the sunset. I think all the smog in the air makes it quite spectacular. Yes, that'd be smog! Not haze, not cloud! As I looked out, I was thinking how that big red sun out there which was setting in this sky, was just coming up in the sky over Brisbane.

Ciao for Now, There's a Red Red Sun Angry Dad.