{"id":2112,"date":"2016-11-24T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2016-11-24T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:37:36","slug":"24-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/24\/24-4\/","title":{"rendered":"24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Free Write.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just after three in the morning, and I\u2019m writing because I\u2019m \u201cwoke as fuck<\u201d or something. (Isn\u2019t that what the kids are writing these days? I blame the folks over at Mouthy Broadcast<\/a> for that one.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was strange figuring out yesterday that it\u2019s been a decade now since I was last on the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I picked through some of my old diary archive to see what I\u2019d written about for Thanksgiving, and there\u2019s really not that much. I have something from 2002 about watching Danny Wuerffel play quarterback for the Redskins in Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s some about the last one with my dad, which was the first one with my new bride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, it\u2019s been bits and pieces about where I\u2019ve been, but nothing major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i think what\u2019s more interesting is that there were a few strange ones that I didn\u2019t write about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Driving all the way to Charleston, SC one year on Thanksgiving Day, because I\u2019d had to work the night before. I think Ryan Leaf was playing Quarterback for the Cowboys. It was nasty weather on I-95; maybe even some snow in NC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also didn\u2019t write about a very odd Thanksgiving where I ended up at some friends\u2019 place because their mom didn\u2019t want me having zero Thanksgiving. I think my family had gone out of town, and I was home working, and taking care of the dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanksgiving was always a big thing with my mom\u2019s family. I guess her grandparents held large gatherings (well, considering they had eleven kids, that was probably unavoidable) where the family would come gather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My own memories, though, aren\u2019t so marinated with family. As a kid, we were always somewhere away, and I can only think of a couple of times where we met up with family. I don\u2019t remember people ever coming to see us; as if there was a way to get people to Europe. Or Kansas. Or Pennsylvania. Or Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might have mentioned that this is the first Thanksgiving that\u2019s just Sarah and me. My SIL got relocated back to the East Coast, so my mom\u2019s up in NoVA visiting her and my brother at their new place. I\u2019m actually looking forward to just a night of the two of us. That also means I probably ought to try to go back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recycling back from OD, this was from 2012, which was the last sorta-okay year I had. I was still making okay money, still owned a car, etc.. I pruned the notes; they didn\u2019t say that much, really.
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NoJoMo Day 24<\/strong> – 11\/24\/2012
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Yeah, so was at my mom\u2019s for belated Thanksgiving dinner. It went. Whatever. I\u2019ll write more tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What was the last thing that gave you a sense of wonder?<\/strong>
I honestly don\u2019t know. With limited vision, it\u2019s tough to get wonderment, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Name a totally useless possession and how you came to own it.<\/strong>
There are many. I probably ought to pick one, no?
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Both prompts are bigger problems today, four years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Write. It\u2019s just after three in the morning, and I\u2019m writing because I\u2019m \u201cwoke as fuck<\u201d or something. (Isn\u2019t that what the kids are writing these days? I blame the folks over at Mouthy Broadcast for that one.) Was strange figuring out yesterday that it\u2019s been a decade now since I was last on the radio. […]<\/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-2112","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\/2112","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=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}