{"id":4017,"date":"2022-11-15T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:57:35","slug":"fifteen-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/fifteen-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Halfway<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s been the first day where what I’m going to write about really didn’t float through my brain throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Busy as hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I think there’s some movement on the idea I had about what to do with the empty house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s cold and nasty out here in the Beltway Swamp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Red^H^H^HFoo^H^H^HCommanders beat the Iggles last night, which was nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The election’s still not sorted out, officially, but things look pretty much resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GenXer in me says, “let it all fall apart.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But where I am with so many things, now, is getting rid of any sort of obfuscation. One of the news stories on the TV was about a five-year-old who got off at the wrong bus stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mother, and the “community members” were upset about two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The driver hadn’t been punished publicly, and;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. There’s no people on board minding the kids more closely.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Or, to restate, we’re upset that the driver’s life wasn’t ruined, and that there’s not more unfilled jobs for people on busses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They never say the quiet part aloud. I initially typed, “here,” but it’s true all over. The officiousness, sure, is more pronounced here, but what can you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It takes a lot to get the fuck over yourself when it comes to that sort of things. I know it was something that was really holding me back, professionally, for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I’d say, no, I’m not allowed to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But I so dislike failing, I look for reasons why I’m prohibited from doing whatever was asked, then failing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maybe it’s a personality flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Back at it tomorrow. I am so not ready for Thanksgiving. I also ended up not taking as much PTO as I’d intended. *shrug*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It’s just there on paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Halfway Today’s been the first day where what I’m going to write about really didn’t float through my brain throughout the day. Busy as hell. But I think there’s some movement on the idea I had about what to do with the empty house. It’s cold and nasty out here in the Beltway Swamp. But […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}