Clarification about my return date and time

[rebeccmeister]

For those nit-picky readers who carefully check dates and times (ahem Dad), my computer was still set to Australia time when I returned yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. You will be happy to note that I have changed it back to US time. As Bill Bryson notes, one of the interesting parts of traveling to Australia is that one loses a day on the way over, and gets a day back on the way back. I was too jet-lagged yesterday to figure out exactly how much time we got back, but to give you an idea, our flight left Melbourne at 12:25 pm on Sunday and arrived in LA at 7:30 am on Sunday--we returned before we had left! Melbourne is 18 hours ahead of Arizona, so we gained an extra 18 hours yesterday, to end up with a total of 32 hours.

And today the jet lag is terrible. I slept in until 10:20. I NEVER sleep in that late!

In other news, my friends think that my stories about my father's coffeeshop bike rides explain a lot about my personality. Heh. Chip off the ol' block!