{"id":3247,"date":"2020-11-21T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T15:00:12","slug":"twenty-one-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/twenty-one-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not going to resurrect that draft for nineteen today or tomorrow.  I&#8217;m not sure what to do with it, honestly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more I read it, the less I like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun meeting with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hrgeeks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">HR Geeks<\/a> folks on Jitsi last night.  Somebody had a photo of me from probably about 2005.  I don&#8217;t know who was more unimpressed, or my wife.  (This would have been probably just before we met&#8230;.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll do my prompt, then get back to scarred brain murmurings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you had unlimited funding to start your own business, what kind of business would you have?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, I go back to the <em>Office Space<\/em> clip.  But, no, two chicks at the same time is kinda off the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how long that&#8217;d last.  Eventually I would probably want to do something &#8220;productive,&#8221; but would that be of use to anyone but me;  would anybody buy what I make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Random aside &#8212; I&#8217;m really enjoying this cup of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lorenzotti.coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzotti coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I don&#8217;t have much of anything to do right now, and I&#8217;m okay with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wake up.  Shower.  Take pills.  Drink coffee.  Listen to podcasts, and write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I be allowed to do that after AOC&#8217;s reconciliation?  I have no idea.  She, and her fellow partisans, want to take everything I&#8217;ve ever produced, then kill me if I don&#8217;t continue participating.  Whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just hope the cameras are rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News.  I don&#8217;t know whether mu connection with non-US news sources have something to do with it, or if the pace actually is picking up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s going on in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/19\/why-is-ethiopia-facing-civil-war-video-explainer?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopia <\/a>is both troubling and confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>dangeous<\/em><\/span> that I get news from a variety of sources, I&#8217;ll look at Chuck Todd&#8217;s outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing about Ethiopia on the front page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing if you use the search tool.  (I get the Wikipedia page, which is, you know, 100% credible&#8230;.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing about a war going on somewhere in the world?  Yeah, that&#8217;s dangerous, Chuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m not going to resurrect that draft for nineteen today or tomorrow. I&#8217;m not sure what to do with it, honestly. The more I read it, the less I like it. Fun meeting with the HR Geeks folks on Jitsi last night. Somebody had a photo of me from probably about 2005. I don&#8217;t [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-3247","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\/3247","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=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}