{"id":2639,"date":"2020-03-21T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:20:06","slug":"a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/21\/a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That&#8217;s how long it took me to realize the reason my early alarm didn&#8217;t go off was because, um, it&#8217;s <em>Saturday<\/em>, and the alarm is only scheduled for Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t wake my wife, worried that she&#8217;d be late starting her telework.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The semi-isolation for COVID-19 is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday I have two medical appointments that are going to be done over the phone.  The second one is a follow-up to an MRI I had at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Georgetown  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medstargeorgetown.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown <\/a>on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I was sedated might explain a bit better about why I didn&#8217;t fully-comprehend that today is Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, though the experience at Georgetown was a bit off, things have been really not all that different <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">for me<\/span>, but, as someone who works from home most of the time, that isn&#8217;t that big a surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to my office in like three weeks.  Okay.  And?  I&#8217;m really smoothing things over with this system I help run, as well as pointing out things that can be done to improve corporate contract performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what I can still do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But do I still want to when I see the effects on people, including very good friends, of what&#8217;s happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense, so maybe I ought to quit writing for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The temptation to write is very much there right now, and that&#8217;s one of the things that I tend to do when I&#8217;m mentally-stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how long it took me to realize the reason my early alarm didn&#8217;t go off was because, um, it&#8217;s Saturday, and the alarm is only scheduled for Monday through Friday. I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t wake my wife, worried that she&#8217;d be late starting her telework. The semi-isolation for COVID-19 is ongoing. Monday I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","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=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}