{"id":1828,"date":"2019-11-14T18:08:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2019-11-14T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T23:08:04","slug":"fourteen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/fourteen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Free-write<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n

I used to really look forward to these, notsomuch today.<\/p>\n\n\n

A lot of the reason is that I’m so incredibly busy.<\/p>\n\n\n

Certainly, given my spotty employment history over the past few years, that’s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n\n\n

So, what have I been doing? Trying to figure out a problematic utility in a makeshift environment. In the background is usually a teleconference, or a podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n

Not thinking about my failing fantasy football teams.<\/p>\n\n\n

I will say that I’m happy to be in my own place. <\/p>\n\n\n

Perhaps I shouldn’t be so content with where I am, and this speaks a bit to what I was talking about recently (yesterday, maybe? I’m too lazy to go look; apologies.).<\/p>\n\n\n

There could be bad things coming. There could be really good things coming. I can’t get too excited either way.<\/p>\n\n\n

Another way I’m broken, perhaps.<\/p>\n\n\n

I was going to say that I couldn’t even get all that excited about the Steelers playing in Cleveland tonight. But I did go check the weather. No snow, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n

(As an aside, football in the snow is great so long as you’ve got good traction. I’d imagine it’d be a royal pain if you were slipping all over the place. See the Leon Lett video I posted about Thanksgiving last year…..)<\/p>\n\n\n

So I guess I am paying a bit of attention. But it hasn’t been enough to get me excited enough to setup the good TV in the living room. Yet.<\/p>\n\n\n

I was watching some game over the weekend, and did notice the remarkable number of empty seats in the stadium. Given that I think it was a game in Cincinnati, you could place some of the blame on how bad that team is. Again. Like Coslet-LeBeau bad.<\/p>\n\n\n

But, yeah, barring temperatures like during “The Freezer Bowl<\/a>,” winter weather and football do mix.<\/p>\n\n\n

Back to TV, since this is all-skate<\/s> free-write. I got distracted there for a minute, and my wife brought up the big TV after saying she, too, wasn’t interested in the Stilluhrs-Browns. The good TV might get done this weekend, mainly because she’s curious about whether the movers broke it.<\/p>\n\n\n

The discussion also included some on streaming services. One of the gusts I heard today was pitching this<\/a>. But I don’t even have time to watch what I already pay for.<\/p>\n\n\n

I am curious, however, to know if there’s something out there that has, maybe, some stories that’ll get my scarred brain more in the writing mode.<\/p>\n\n\n

It’s been a long time since I attempted any storytelling. Maybe it’s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free-write I used to really look forward to these, notsomuch today. A lot of the reason is that I’m so incredibly busy. Certainly, given my spotty employment history over the past few years, that’s not a bad thing. So, what have I been doing? Trying to figure out a problematic utility in a makeshift environment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month","tag-nojomo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}