So the thing about blogging is that when you stop for a bit, you stop for a bit longer. And then a bit longer and on. Well, that’s what happens to me anyway. Take Rach, for example. I owed her a letter probably 6 months ago. And then I’m thinking of what to write, and more and more, then I wait, because there’s more to be thought of, and then I realise it’s getting later and later, and so I get more and more sheepish. And 1 week becomes 6 months. So, I’ll be catching up on my letter writing this weekend, because there’s so much to tell.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, we’re back from Thanksgiving vacation. At work, we’re wrapping up the final bits of the new Dev Zone<\/a> (not yet published, but at least the docs have been opened for a couple of weeks). We’ll be ready to unveil it soon enough. I also put in the new xterm release into portage this evening. So those of you on stable profiles waiting for xterm-222, your architecture team should be putting that in for you soon.<\/p>\n I wasn’t going to do another Master Cleanse till the new year, but a few things have happened. We’d started running, if you remember. And we took our gear to vacation with us. Before we left we ran the first 2 days of Week 4 here. Kinda. The first day we couldn’t do the last five-minute block at all. The second day, we did 4 and a half minutes of it. The third day was in LA. The park there is on a bit of an incline (a slight one, admittedly, but you can feel it). So we were struggling again, and couldn’t do the last five-minute block again. Then we got to Oklahoma, and the first morning there, I felt the beginnings of a cold. My glands swelled and my throat closed up painfully. That did us in. I couldn’t run like that, because swallowing was painful. That lasted till yesterday more or less (ie, our first day back in Boston). I even missed my first day back at work, due to fever and throat-achiness.<\/p>\n Today, I’m much much better, and because of all the food and stuff that was consumed during the holiday, we decided to go on a 10-day Master Cleanse. This time, Aimee is doing it with me. And also, my sister and her fiance (both in Rochacha) are doing the Master Cleanse right now!<\/p>\n So anyway, we had a dinner tonight (order-in Chinese), and it’s a few minutes to bedtime, so we’re drinking senna tea. Tomorrow morning: the first flush. Aimee’s nervous. I’m ambivalent (about the flush). We have a truckload of lemons, a boatload of maple syrup, a tonne of cayenne and we’ll need to refill on water tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n I’ll keep the blog updated with the progress on both of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the thing about blogging is that when you stop for a bit, you stop for a bit longer. And then a bit longer and on. Well, that’s what happens to me anyway. Take Rach, for example. I owed her a letter probably 6 months ago. And then I’m thinking of what to write, and … Continue reading The Master Cleanse: Day 0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}