{"id":296,"date":"2012-02-25T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=296"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:37:27","slug":"well-that-was-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Friday 24th February 2012 &#8211; WELL, THAT WAS EXCITING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two hours on my feet in front of about 25 people doing my presentation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/2010c125.html\">Trans-Labrador Highway<\/a>. Loads of people whom I knew there too which was really nice.<\/p>\n<p>And doing it all in French as well! <\/p>\n<p>And It went down quite well too, much to my surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that I reckon is most important about living in new surroundings is to make an effort to integrate and to take an active role in community affairs. And so that&#8217;s my bit done for the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s my birthday today so happy birthday to me of course. And in keeping with tradition I did my best not to do anything today. That&#8217;s what birthdays are all about of course.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t quite work out like that as I had to redo the presentation (and it STILL didn&#8217;t work on anyone&#8217;s computer except mine and isn&#8217;t that a mystery?) and then I had a surprise visit from Terry to wish me a happy birthday, bring me a birthday cake (thanks, Liz) and a couple of birthday presents, to wit one cement mixer and a box of screwdriver bits.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really nice when your friends understand instinctively your needs.<\/p>\n<p>So that was today, really. But here&#8217;s a piece of surprising information &#8211; apart from about an hour earlier this morning, I&#8217;ve had no heat on in here today. And it&#8217;s well after 02:00 and the temperature is still over 15\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-296 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='296' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-296 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-296 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='296' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-296 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-296 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two hours on my feet in front of about 25 people doing my presentation of the Trans-Labrador Highway. Loads of people whom I knew there too which was really nice. And doing it all in French as well! And It went down quite well too, much to my surprise. The thing that I reckon is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,276],"tags":[5629,2560,5565,5366,261,5369],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-virlet","tag-birthday","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-virlet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}