{"id":5064,"date":"2025-11-21T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:03:05","slug":"twenty-one-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/twenty-one-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Recap of your year month-by-month<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do feel like this should be something that runs December through November, but implicit in the prompt, this is only <em>this year<\/em>, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to just seat-of-the-pants on this.  Not going to be well-researched, but I don&#8217;t have all day to spend on this.  I do spend a lot more time on stuff I put up on Substack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I actually started on this earlier, but it was getting unwieldy.  I&#8217;ll be as brief as I can.  I do have links to my writings for each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202501\">January<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cold, final Schmoocon, inauguration, plane crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202502\">February<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots on what was going on with DOGE.  Lots of problems with the return-to-office for USG folks.  A few layoffs, early retirements, etc..  I remember dreading getting to my former formal work site.  In the early days of the, I think, below 50% butts-in-seats periods, the traffic delay to get on to post was something like 75 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202503\">March<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The only thing I wrote about was sort of related to something that was discussed on <a href=\"https:\/\/blockedandreported.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BARPod<\/a>.  I remember working incredibly hard, and worrying about when they were going to get me back to a site more often.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202504\">April<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Decided that my body wasn&#8217;t up for doing something different, so started planning how to go to disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t go and be in spend hours in a car getting to the site, then go back-and-forth to and from various places I&#8217;d need to be to work.  I can&#8217;t go and do the things that are needed in  order to buy more letters after my name in order to work for even less money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202505\">May<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Frantic work to leave things in as good a shape as possible.  Stopped working. started the nightmare that is disability paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202506\">June<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Fumbling about with disability.  Lost Miss lacey.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202507\">July<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Horrible trip to Biloxi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202508\">August<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Long-Term disability denied, so everything I&#8217;ve been goin through since.  Birthday, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202509\">September<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Still trying to figure out what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?m=202510\">October<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Government shutdown, and trying to get things for my lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do I feel like I should apologize for the abbreviated nature of this?  (And the answer is the reason  I&#8217;m seeing a psychologist&#8230;) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November, of course, I&#8217;ve woven in things here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I just had an appointment with a financial planner regarding my various retirement savings.  One, I don&#8217;t have enough money to be one of his client.  Two, a lot of my &#8220;income&#8221; is really dependent on this private disability appeal.  When I get that, I don&#8217;t really need to worry about much;  the long-term disability will carry probably to the end of my expected life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep.  Moving.  Forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now if I could have done that during the workout this morning&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recap of your year month-by-month I do feel like this should be something that runs December through November, but implicit in the prompt, this is only this year, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do. I think I&#8217;m going to just seat-of-the-pants on this. 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