{"id":20629,"date":"2013-09-30T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=20629"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:34:14","slug":"one-week-till-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/09\/30\/one-week-till-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week Till Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In (roughly) one week, I&#8217;m going to get on a series of planes and time travel to Brisbane for <a title=\"http:\/\/www.genrecon.com.au\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genrecon.com.au\"><strong>GenreCon<\/strong><\/a>. (The schedule is at that link if you&#8217;re actually going to be there. And, in fact, if\u00a0<em>you&#8217;re<\/em> going to be there, you should make sure you come say hi! Don&#8217;t be afraid! I do not bite unless I&#8217;m really drunk or unless I&#8217;ve contracted some kind of koala chlamydia.)<\/p>\n<p>One of my plane flights is a 16-hour flight from Dallas to Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen holy-shit hours.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever done anything for 16 hours. Longest car trip was maybe 14? Jeez, I dunno. Point is, I&#8217;m going to be in an economy-sized seat (thankfully on an international flight, where the planes are bigger and with them, the seats) for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>And then, the inevitable jet lag.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I like to do, this seems a good time to crowdsource tips. Where I exploit you, my fabulous readership, by drilling a blog post into your brain and tapping your sweet, honey-like knowledge. The questions then, that I&#8217;d like to ask are:<\/p>\n<p>a) Survival tips for a very long flight?<\/p>\n<p>b) This very long flight seems like a good opportunity to digest great gulping mouthfuls of delectable pop culture medicine. As such, I am soliciting your opinions for interesting movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, and games to shove into my brain holes. In particular: noodling wolfing down\u00a0<em>entire seasons<\/em> of television, as that seems to be an option.<\/p>\n<p>c) How to deal with jet lag?<\/p>\n<p>d) BRISBANE. My trip to Australia is 10 days, though due to the Time Travel Laws, I will actually only be Down Under for seven. As such, I&#8217;ve chosen to remain in and around the Brisbane area, so I&#8217;m narrowing down my &#8220;What To Do In Australia?&#8221; question to, &#8220;What To Do In Brisbane?&#8221; Essential sights, experiences, foods, what-not.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, humans.<\/p>\n<p>Screw you, robots.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh wait, that&#8217;s not all. While gone, by the way,\u00a0<strong>terribleminds<\/strong> will remain in operation, its forges burning bright with the kindling of wonderful guest posts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In (roughly) one week, I&#8217;m going to get on a series of planes and time travel to Brisbane for GenreCon. (The schedule is at that link if you&#8217;re actually going to be there. And, in fact, if\u00a0you&#8217;re going to be there, you should make sure you come say hi! Don&#8217;t be afraid! 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