{"id":169,"date":"2017-09-26T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:44:40","slug":"day-26-watching-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/day-26-watching-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 26: Watching the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 26:<\/p>\n<p>The Company could be back to pick me up any time now. I&#8217;m trying to stay aboveground so they can find me. Trying to stay busy so I don&#8217;t spend all my time scanning the skies. Of course it&#8217;s cloudy and rainy today so I couldn&#8217;t see an approach if I wanted to&#8230; not that the blue atmosphere of this oxygen-rich planet would&#8217;ve allowed me to see much anyway. At night I&#8217;ve got a better chance, but being outside at night on this planet is just a really bad plan.<\/p>\n<p>I cut down some trees today and used them to make charcoal. It&#8217;s tiring, dirty work, but not much different from mining except for the sun and the heat. (Not much of that deep underground.) But if I&#8217;m here a few more days I&#8217;m going to need the charcoal for more torches. Otherwise I could still be overrun by creatures sneaking in the back entrance to the cave.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to the ship. I&#8217;m really looking forward to anti-inflammatories and pain killers. I&#8217;ve fallen a couple of times in the cave, might&#8217;ve greenstick fractured my arm, hard to tell. Could just be soreness but the bruises mean it could be something more.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do if I had to set a bone here. I&#8217;m trying to be careful enough not to find out.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m done this six-month stint, I think I&#8217;ll take a year off before I re-up. Go home, see the family, maybe visit Grandpa&#8217;s grave and thank him for teaching me how to fish.<\/p>\n<p>Two more days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" style=\"width: 2732px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sketch. Poorly drawn right arm, palm-side up. There's a big bruise on the left edge of the inside of the forearm, taking up about 1\/2 the forearm, that darkens near the center of the injury. It is labelled &quot;still learning to mix colors. That spot should be purple in the middle fading to brown on the edges.&quot;\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-27.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It doesn&#8217;t hurt unless I&#8217;m awake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 26: The Company could be back to pick me up any time now. I&#8217;m trying to stay aboveground so they can find me. Trying to stay busy so I don&#8217;t spend all my time scanning the skies. Of course it&#8217;s cloudy and rainy today so I couldn&#8217;t see an approach if I wanted to&#8230; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/day-26-watching-the-skies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 26: Watching the skies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-among-the-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-2J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}