Note: I wrote this last night when I didn’t have internet access.<\/p>\n
Kristian and I are staying with his cousin in Barnes. I like this family on principle, because they have Sky Sports, which means that I can watch the Patriots game tonight. Yes, I’m in London and I’m excited about watching an American Football game (which, btw, starts at 11:30pm local time). What can I say? I’m a Boston sports fan. This makes me, by definition, insane.<\/p>\n
Even if Kristian’s cousins didn’t have football, I would still like them. They’ve very graciously welcomed us into their home and have made us feel incredibly welcome. They fed us a delicious dinner and are putting us up, probably for the rest of the time that we’re here in London. I’m so very grateful.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, we stayed with some friends (Charles and ) that we met on Ars Technica<\/a>. They very kindly picked us up from the airport, fed us tea, took us out for a night on the town, put us up in our own room and then fed us one of the most delicious breakfasts that I can remember eating in a long time. Once again, I’m so very grateful.<\/p>\n I suppose that if you were to say, “yeah we met some people on the internet and then we flew across the ocean and spent the night with them,” it sounds a bit sketchy. I guess that there was a chance that they were arsenic-wielding serial killers who enjoy offing Americans and then burying them out back under the rose bushes. But, you know, anybody<\/i> could be an arsenic wielding serial killer. Sometimes you just have to trust people. <\/p>\n Considering the fact that neither of us was able to sleep more than a couple of hours on Friday\/Saturday, I was amazed that we stayed out past midnight last night. I guess it’s easier to stay up when you are hanging out with fun people. <\/p>\n More later after I’ve had some real sleep! :p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note: I wrote this last night when I didn’t have internet access. Kristian and I are staying with his cousin in Barnes. I like this family on principle, because they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-2j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}