{"id":3466,"date":"2018-12-31T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T08:00:45","slug":"ciao-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/12\/31\/ciao-2018","title":{"rendered":"Ciao 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too busy to sum up the year but generally speaking: father much more gravely ill, lost another grandmother exactly 14 months to the date of the previous one, lots of general busyness.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m in Kuala Lumpur, not elsewhere (second year running), shuttling between home and the hospital. First trip of 2019 has also just been cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>Travel stats: 29 trips, 249 days on the road, 391,119 km travelled, 57 cities, 20 countries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/12\/31\/annus-horribilis-2017\">Comparing to 2017<\/a>, it is 1 trip less, 2 days more, 59,903 km less (!), with 4 cities more and 3 countries less. Nothing particularly memorable stood out (even based on my Swarm statistics). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say I want to blog more, but I know its tough. I am however enjoying long form writing thanks to my Field Notes subscription. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to 2019. Life can only get better. 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As I write this, I&#8217;m in Kuala Lumpur, not elsewhere (second year running), shuttling between home and the hospital. First trip of 2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Ciao%202018&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2018%2F12%2F31%2Fciao-2018&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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