{"id":2898,"date":"2020-04-14T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T18:59:52","slug":"fourteen-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/fourteen-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s work challenge was some odd version of ASCII Art.  With my bad eyesight, I couldn&#8217;t really see anything, despite repeated zooms in and out, and attempts to change my perspective physically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am going blind.  It&#8217;s one of my symptoms.  Is it frustrating?  Abso-fucking-lutely.  Maybe I could just ignore that fact, and would feel better, but things like that just reinforce it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started plunking away at this while listening, again, to a podcast that&#8217;s causing petulance.  See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2837\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.  Ignorance is bliss, maybe, but you shouldn&#8217;t strive for it.  <strong>Even if it makes you happier.<\/strong>  How&#8217;s that for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=truthiness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">truthiness<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I admit I was very worried about getting my last Tysabri infusion because of what might happen if I get COVID-19.  I spoke to my neurologist, and she said to go ahead with it.  Unsurprisingly, I feel a lot better after I finally got my &#8220;recharge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the bigger point, the point the Pod host, and Chuck Todd don&#8217;t get, is that people can handle continuous updates on information, even if there&#8217;s some small variances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I swear, officer, I didn&#8217;t know I was fifteen over.  I mean, I checked the speedometer three minutes before you clocked me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=glwts\" target=\"_blank\">GLWT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rant kinda derailed by work.  I&#8217;m going to step aside for the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s work challenge was some odd version of ASCII Art. With my bad eyesight, I couldn&#8217;t really see anything, despite repeated zooms in and out, and attempts to change my perspective physically. I am going blind. It&#8217;s one of my symptoms. Is it frustrating? Abso-fucking-lutely. Maybe I could just ignore that fact, and would feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whar-covid-19-whar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","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=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}