{"id":3641,"date":"2021-10-02T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2021-10-02T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T17:04:42","slug":"wind-down-spin-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/10\/02\/wind-down-spin-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Down, Spin Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Long, only partially-successful week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday I finally got my work laptop mostly working well enough to work Monday.  Long day of work Monday, but I got through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, I tried to go to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/people\/robby-soave\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robbie Soave<\/a>&#8216;s book signing at the Reason office in DC.  I did really want to meet the staff, deliver some gifts stored since before the pandemic, but I got the address wrong, and the state&#8217;s blind guy bus dropped me exactly where I&#8217;d requested&#8230;..a few blocks south of where I was supposed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to say that I was good for about a block on foot.  I think, now, that&#8217;s probably a bit too, ummm, optimistic.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I know where I&#8217;m going, don&#8217;t have to read addresses, and have to backtrack, maybe that&#8217;s where I am.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally gave up, and ended up finding a Lyft driver who took me where I was supposed to go long enough to drop off my gifts, and drive me home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still sore on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent quite a bit of time Thursday and Friday preparing for my oldest friend and my trip to NYC for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesohoforum.org\/click-here-to-view-upcoming-events\/2020\/5\/11\/william-kristol-vs-scott-horton\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>the<\/strong><\/em> debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em>A willingness to intervene, and to seek regime change, is key to an American foreign policy that benefits America.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m generally against that idea.  Trying to not let my general disdain for both of the debaters sway my opinion before i listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album artwork fo<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Listen_Without_Prejudice_Vol._1\" target=\"_blank\">r the album<\/a> that came to mind reminds me of the NPC T-shirt I bought this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m almost out of coffee, and a bit jealous of the folks going to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/deathtotyrants.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buck Johnson&#8217;s<\/a> event in Texas week after next, or the Saluyta(sp?) Super-spreader event in Mexico in December put on by Johnny, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peddlingfictionpodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I can go to NYC on the train which makes things a bit easier.  Get to ride Acela for the first time coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, only partially-successful week. Sunday I finally got my work laptop mostly working well enough to work Monday. Long day of work Monday, but I got through it. Tuesday, I tried to go to Robbie Soave&#8216;s book signing at the Reason office in DC. I did really want to meet the staff, deliver some gifts [&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-3641","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\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}