The Greenwich Official Time Committee, working hand in glove with the Guinness Book of World Records, as they are won't to do, this very morning announced our hotel quarantine room had been accorded the first Special Time Zone status: one where ALL times are concurrently and correctly enforce.
We are 6 travellers from Mountain Time, GMT-7, now 5 days-ish, in Mainland Southeast Asia, GMT +7. BUT, at the best of times travellers body clocks don't all reset synchronously. My wife is most closely connected to this time, always via long daily messenger chats. My eldest, second day-ish, stayed awake 10am to 10pm to win my ten dollar bet he couldn't, Other boys and I somewhere between, and the baby, well who knows how her clock is ticking.
So far so good, so traveller Jet lag normal - except stuck 24/14 in a hotel room days and nights aren't delimited normally, even if we flew in from just 5 or 7 time zones away.
Then, this morning, the boys all tired to join google classrooms back in GMT -7, each at a slightly different time slot, and the eldest for a few time slots, to cover a range of school subjects. Various phone alarms had been set. Me, trying to be a dutiful patriarch, had brief notes written down detailing our their individual paths to success.
At 0935 GMT -7 the first alarm rang for a 0945 Math class. From a deep dream dense sleep I woke with a start. I'd been asleep-ish since 545pm Cambodia time. Boy now awake, but the internet was off, router too device confused. Solved. but class links - or brain links misbehaving, It was incredibly close to happening,... but didn't. Second son could be placed upright in a chair, but couldn't be woken. Baby woke to step out and start climbing desks, night tables, and dressers. ...
Sorry, more to write, but we just found out the family netflix account my son had on his PS4 is working in Cambodia quarantine. We'll pass some of the day-ish, watching a film all together. Maybe some synchronicity will develop?
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