{"id":5060,"date":"2025-11-28T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:05:17","slug":"twenty-eight-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/twenty-eight-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Free Write.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For whatever reason, the free write prompts were the one I didn’t lose. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful. We have some leftovers. Not sure what we’re going to do with all of those yet. Still more than a fair amount of pie. My wife confirms again she’s not a fan of pecan pie, so I guess finishing off the three remaining servings of that I need to get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That would actually go okay with hot coffee for breakfast. Yes, a lot of sugar, but I’m tempted after I finish this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The early football games are disappointing, mainly for the outcomes. Was happy to see the Bengals come through in the night game. I do like that the Bengals and Ravens, at least, are playing different-style football. (The loss of
Amon-Ra St. Brown on like on like the second drive of the Lions’ game probably killed one of my fantasy teams’ seasons, too….) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me look at some previous years and see if I can find something to recycle for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ah, yes, there’s something <\/a>from this day just before the hell storm started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s resample those questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. What is the best birthday gift you ever received<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odd question for this date, but I think I was probably going off suggestions provided as part of the OD NoJoMo push back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recounted the CD player I got when I was an adolescent. I think I had something like five CDs <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do wonder if those are still in my brother’s basement. At the same time, are any of them from that vintage things I’d have that much interest in hearing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably not. And I’m pretty sure I haven’t listened to any of the tracks on my own accord; do I even want to look up the one CD I’m thinking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do I not want to listen because I’ve overplayed those, or because I’d be disappointed by them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do wonder, however, whether I’d hear something different today that’d impress me. I hear music differently these days; would I hear something I didn’t hear then?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or would I be disappointed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Write about your greatest fear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next question from that entry might capture development of some of my ruminations. I was, and still am to a bit, deathly afraid of being publicly-embarrassed <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many incidents in the intervening years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the tricks I’d developed quit working. It took me years to realize that those things had stopped working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, what else is on tap for today? Da Bears playing in Philly tonight. Actually could be a good game, but I’m having trouble caring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early piecing together contingency plans if my biggest issue isn’t going to be resolved satisfactorily. It does look like Perplexity<\/a> might be able to help me mold something that’d work. But that’s a purchase for next month if I buy a month-long copy to do what I want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also looking at when would be a good time to go to Biloxi next Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also following along with most of the coverage that’s coming out about the DC murders on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s people who are saying that this wouldn’t have happened if OrangeManBad hadn’t deployed the National Guard to help organize the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the man-on-the-street people interviewed seemed shocked and upset about it; how could this happen in my city?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the coverage I watched on WUSA did try to shift the blame to Trump for even trying to fix the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But these Guardsmen were shot by an Afghan on Temporary Protected Status….and was someone ferreted out following the oh-so-successful fall of Kabul in mid-2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He drove across the country to come to DC….just to shoot Guardsmen because Trump had deployed them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free Write. For whatever reason, the free write prompts were the one I didn’t lose. Go figure. Thanksgiving was pretty uneventful. We have some leftovers. Not sure what we’re going to do with all of those yet. Still more than a fair amount of pie. My wife confirms again she’s not a fan of pecan […]<\/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-5060","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\/5060","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=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}