{"id":398,"date":"2009-09-09T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-09-09T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T21:18:32","slug":"forty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/forty-one","title":{"rendered":"41!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/kayaking2.jpg\" alt=\"kayaking2\" title=\"kayaking2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" style=\"border: 1px solid #666\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something pleasing both with leaving 40 behind and having an age that is a prime number. I&#8217;m in the depths of a writing deadline so I&#8217;ve been scarce since the scarcity of being gone all weekend. Now I&#8217;m in the procrastination phase of my writing deadline so I&#8217;ll make some notes here.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I turned 41! I had a really nice birthday weekend. Unlike last year which was a frenzy of friend-oriented activities and houseguests and cake and not much sleep, this year was all about getting out of town and taking a lot of naps. Jim and I went up north to stay at a little lodge on Seymour Lake. We figured while we were there we&#8217;d try to <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; go to Canada for ketchup chips and ground cherries<br \/>\n&#8211; get a lot of rest<br \/>\n&#8211; go kayaking<br \/>\n&#8211; hit some of the towns that are still blank on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/04\/251.html\">my 251 Club list<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; go muck around in nature<\/p>\n<p>Which is pretty much what we did. We stayed in Morgan Vermont. Tried and failed to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis,_Vermont\">Lewis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Averys_Gore,_Vermont\">Averys Gore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warner%27s_Grant,_Vermont\">Warner&#8217;s Grant<\/a> (got all the way to the one paved road in only to find gates there; I&#8217;ll have to go again when I&#8217;m prepped for hiking). Did a lot of driving and looking at things. Stepped over and drove over the Canadian border. Got a lot of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d show you a ton of photos, but I dropped my camera in the lake. Amusingly, my already-purchased-but-not-yet-delivered birthday present was a new camera. So, everything is fine. I mentioned over on librarian.net that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/3001\/the-beginning-of-school\/\">I&#8217;ve got a slightly different job configuration<\/a> for this school year but things are mostly the same. The same and good.<\/p>\n<p><small>Also, towns that I still need to visit: Arlington, Benson, Cornwall, Dover,Franklin, Granby, Hubbardton, Jamaica, Lewis, Maidstone, Middletown Springs, Pawlet, Pownal, Readsboro, Rupert, Sandgate, Searsburg,  Sheldon, Somerset, Stamford, Stannard, Stratton, Sudbury, Underhill, Wardsboro, Wells, West Haven, Weybridge, Whiting, Whitingham, Wilmington, Windham, Woodford <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/forty-one\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to 41!\"><p>There&#8217;s something pleasing both with leaving 40 behind and having an age that is a prime number. I&#8217;m in the depths of a writing deadline so I&#8217;ve been scarce since the scarcity of being gone all weekend. Now I&#8217;m in the procrastination phase of my writing deadline so I&#8217;ll make some notes here. Hey, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,83,4,3,15],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","tag-travel","tag-vermont","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}