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Skriven 2014-01-25 20:02:16 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 9145 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 ML> I was once accused of being permanently jet-lagged. It's possible.
 RH> Steve used to say that working a night shift made him feel permanently
 RH> (at least for the time he worked it) jet lagged. When we were in
 RH> Berlin, for a couple of years he'd do two months of day and swing
 RH> shifts, followed by a month of nights.

 ML> Can be tough. It's said that melatonin does well to balance
 ML> things out for many. My own experiences with it have been
 ML> less than encouraging.

Steve didn't even try it. I made a set of dark drapes for the room & he
used both ear plugs and an eye shade to block out sound & light.

 ML> As far as swing and night shifts go, it seems to me that
 ML> mixing them up would be worse than having people go on
 ML> permanent second or third shift schedules.

Swings were a lot easier than nights. He'd get home between 11:30 and
midnight, getting to bed a bit later and sleeping in until mid morning.
The girls got to see him (briefly) after they got home from school but
before he went to work. As with the other shifts, I'd either pack him a
meal or he'd get one in the DFac.

 RH> Sounds like you're eating well. Don't know if I would have tried the
 RH> bugs (reading your previous post) but that's your (and my) choice.

 ML> Pretty well, but within constraints. Less seafood, for example,
 ML> than I would like, and more alcohol (about one drink a day over
 ML> my optimum for the booze). More McDonald's, but then any McDonald's
 ML> is more than I need or want. Lilli says (now that the trip is
 ML> coming to an end) that she's McDonald'sed out. Nonetheless, she
 ML> just took all my remaining Baht and went off to find a hamburger.

We'd probably do something between totally local (no bugs) and
McDonalds. I'd go for seafood if I could, if not, find a decent
alternative but not McDs, unless I had no other recourse.


 ML> (or at least included with the heftyish room price).
 RH> You know the room cost is paying for those supposed free treats.

 ML> Well, of course. But we're not wholly rational beings, and the
 ML> appeal of the American plan and the AYCE hits at something
 ML> primitive in our hunter-gatherer low brain.

And the brain goes into cave man mode--see food, eat, because you don't
know when you'll see food again.


 ML> It does plain point-and-shoot pretty well, but I couldn't get
 ML> it to produce anything meaningful at the night market, which
 ML> I did remember to take it to.
 RH> Both markets sounded like they would have been interesting to wander
 RH> thru. Completly different character to them, which added to the
 RH> interest I presume.

 ML> I generally visit markets for the food, which means slice of
 ML> life in the daytime and eating strange things by night.

I may try some new/strange foods but think I'll draw the line before I
get to the bugs.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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