Sailor Dad

So now that we’ve been through three time zones, I’ve already started to lose my situational awareness of the time in San Diego. When I sat down today to send out emails and update my Twitter (@SailorDad) I realized that while I had just eaten dinner and preparing for the next day, everyone in San Diego was still out and about in their day. It’s been a while since I had to think about what time it was back home in San Diego in comparison to where I am currently. Once we get further east, we’ll lose an entire day by skipping ahead a day thanks to the International Date Line. Of course that means that we have to pay back the day we skipped by repeating a day on the way home. The real pain is when I’m on the other side of the world and trying to call home to talk to my family without waking them up in the middle of the night. Of course it also requires planning to call at the right time and not have been drinking for a few hours before picking up the phone and drunk dialing the wife. I can tell you from experience and witnessing others doing it, it is not appreciated.

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