Started writing early today because I woke up early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naturally this would be the day that my WaterPik quits working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But at least something I can put on my Christmas list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you could have any career, what would it be? (Assume anything you choose, you are the best in the field).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I know I shouldn’t, but I’m really going to say, “I don’t know.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to be in a situation where I can work as I feel up to it. My last gig came sorta close to that. I think we were expected to keep “core hours” sometimes, but a lot of the operation was more towards the West Coast; I could relax some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, holidays there were one of the bigger down-sides. I would really like to ensure that I can eat Thanksgiving dinner, or watch a football game without disruption. I couldn’t necessarily do that there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would feel less bad about taking time off, though, knowing that there was someone around who could stamp out whatever fires might spring up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t know. I’m at a fork in the road, perhaps, professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How long can I do what I’ve been doing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I do know that I can’t do it in an office or datacenter anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that’s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there’s an option I have with my current situation that’ll pay me enough to live off of for a long time. Maybe I shouldn’t think as much about doing that as I do, but, well….<\/p>\n\n\n\n News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I stumbled across a story about what’s going on on Armenia on Parler. The stuff going on over with Armenia and Azerbaijan. Wow. In a story I saw on another site, there was something about people setting their houses on fire to keep the invaders from taking their stuff. I think this <\/a>has many of the same details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Protecting property is something government is supposed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this case, absent government protection, people are torching it to prevent invaders from getting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People value their own shit. This should not be a surprise to anyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And, no, you can’t have a pony. Not yours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And people might be willing to destroy their own stuff just to prevent you from having it<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Is that so difficult to understand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Started writing early today because I woke up early. Naturally this would be the day that my WaterPik quits working. But at least something I can put on my Christmas list. If you could have any career, what would it be? (Assume anything you choose, you are the best in the field). I know I […]<\/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-3239","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\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}