Entries this day: banana-split-and-dog-shopping bought-2-orgonite-pyramids bought-some-puzzles fixed-my-jetlag my-first-flight-in-an-airbus-a-380

banana split and dog shopping

11:57 Saturday 16 December 2017 -02

Shop called Banana Split

I was entertained that Gabana can come inside shopping.

bought 2 orgonite pyramids

11:43 Saturday 16 December 2017 -02

Walking by a street vendor, I liked the look of items on this table

and ended up buying two.

bought some puzzles

18:17 Saturday 16 December 2017

I bought five puzzles today after seeing some that I had had as a kid. The woman at the shop suggested four as being difficult, and I selected a fifth one because I liked its design.

fixed my jetlag

07:29 Saturday 16 December 2017 -02

Good morning from São Paulo! My jetlag seems fine, though we are in a timezone opposite that of Japan, where it is 6:30pm Saturday according to https://time.is/Tokyo

My techique is to switch my clocks to my destination time as soon as I get onto the airplane, and then sleep or stay awake during the flight according to the target schedule.

The more timezones changed, the longer the flight and therefore more time available to do the switch.

For those of you reading from the future, the rate of change for me is roughly one timezone per 2 hours of travel time. (We were in a Boeing 777 and then an Airbus A-380 (my first time to fly one of those).)

my first flight in an airbus a 380

07:37 Saturday 16 December 2017 -02

Last night was my (and Lin's) first time to travel in an Airbus A380. Our flight was around 15 hours from Dubai to São Paulo on Emirates, which is apparently Airbus' largest A380 customer.

I was impressed with how relatively quiet the plane was during the entire flight. (I had a window seat just at the trailing edge of the wings.)

We had a hard landing with a bounce, but the aircraft came to a stop very quickly and smoothly.