This week was devoid of posts as I recov­ered from jet lag. Things are much better now but I am still adjusting. Hope­fully, this week I will feel better as things return to normal. It has been much more dif­fi­cult than I expected it to be. At the begin­ning of our vaca­tion, it took about 3 or 4 days for recovery, although I admit my normal sleeping pat­tern was con­sis­tently off. I does make me wonder if I am expe­ri­encing what will be a long term mod­i­fi­ca­tion of my tra­di­tional rhythm.

The other activity keeping me occu­pied is the design and devel­op­ment of my inter­ac­tive travel journal. Much of my cur­rent effort is directed toward con­verting my journal notes. My notes were hand­written, so I need to enter the text into HTML; add rel­e­vant hyper­links; add Chi­nese and Pinyin trans­la­tions of var­ious places and food items; and edit my very rough ini­tial draft. The other cur­rent task is to develop my ideas for the inter­face and put together an ini­tial design. I have some ideas put down as pixels but I really need to refine my ideas. Overall, the project is going to require quite a bit of work. I’ll need to develop it in pieces.