{"id":2106,"date":"2016-11-21T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2016-11-21T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:34:45","slug":"21-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/21-2\/","title":{"rendered":"21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Write about something you\u2019ve had to re-learn.<\/em>The impetus for this was something too personal to write about publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my nerves stop working, I\u2019ve had to re-learn lots of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of them are attributable to my limited eyesight, unsteady balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learn to do things one-handed, so I can steady myself with the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps oddly, I find myself doing a lot more things from the sinister side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The neurologist I saw at Georgetown said I was a lefty. I don\u2019t even. Maybe it\u2019s that I\u2019m wearing my Fitbit on my right wrist, and carrying my cane in my right hand, leaving my left free to do other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>shrug<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TV news is doing pre-fab stories about smartphone apps for cooking. Yeah, about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about just printing the recipe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of my fun the past few days has involved getting my 401K funds from the company that shall not be named. I didn\u2019t even think about the pittance I\u2019d contributed when I finally GTFO of that hellhole until I got a notice that they were paying me a penalty and interest for a mistake they\u2019d made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m trying to be surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they\u2019re giving me the run-around on getting it rolled over into my IRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, trying to be surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I seriously need my Tysabri infusion. It\u2019s weird; I\u2019m exhausted, but not terribly sleepy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a Monday for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least there should be an interesting game tonihgttonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apologies, to quote Katy, to my non-existant reader, but I really don\u2019t have a ton to say today.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write about something you\u2019ve had to re-learn.The impetus for this was something too personal to write about publicly. As my nerves stop working, I\u2019ve had to re-learn lots of things. Many of them are attributable to my limited eyesight, unsteady balance. I learn to do things one-handed, so I can steady myself with the other. [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}