{"id":4135,"date":"2003-10-06T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:58:39","slug":"arrival-in-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2003\/10\/06\/arrival-in-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival in Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-4135\">\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to this vacation &#8211; work has been hard  recently (but    also rewarding to me) and taking a break now is a good thing I think.  As usual,    I&#8217;m bringing some books along, as I love to read while on vacation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671027360\/qid=1064679482\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/103-1244673-7923063\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Angels-Demons-Dan-Brown\/dp\/0671027360%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0671027360\">Angels &amp; Demons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142437344\/qid=1064679521\/sr=2-1\/ref=sr_2_1\/103-1244673-7923063\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Portrait-Artist-Young-Penguin-Classics\/dp\/0142437344%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0142437344\">A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0393004813\/qid=1064679549\/sr=1-4\/ref=sr_1_4\/103-1244673-7923063?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/History-Sparta-950-192-B-C\/dp\/0393004813%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0393004813\">A History of Sparta, 950-192 B.C.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m bringing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-camerastore.com\/sonys75.htm\">Sony    DSC-S75 digital camera<\/a> and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\/\">Apple    PowerBook<\/a> &#8211; I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valence.com\/valence_frame.asp?ncp\">N-Charge    travel battery<\/a> so I&#8217;m hoping I can use the laptop for most of the  flight;    I hope to work on my <a href=\"..\/..\/tmt\/index.html\">time tracking software<\/a> and on adding printing to my favorite IDE, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/\">Eclipse<\/a>.    With any luck, I&#8217;ll be able to post this travelogue shortly after my  return,    thanks to bringing the laptop along; Aviva returns a week later, and  she may    have some notes and experiences to add from her time in Firenze  (Florence) with    a friend, Heather.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re lucky &#8211; we had enough miles with Northwest to get a business  class ticket    for Aviva and upgrade my coach ticket to business class.<\/p>\n<p>Our flight left on time &#8211; travelling business class is so, so much  more comfortable    than coach. 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As usual, I&#8217;m bringing some books along, as I love to read while on vacation: Angels &amp; Demons A Portrait of the Artist as a Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[2349,790],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-amsterdam","tag-italy-2003"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-14H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179264,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions\/179264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}