{"id":6128,"date":"2026-06-06T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:30:06","slug":"close-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/close-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Close The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my forced poverty, I&#8217;d created a list of books I wanted to read, well listen to on account of my vision, and I&#8217;ve been able to start getting through the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, one of the ones near the top of the list doesn&#8217;t show an audiobook on Apple (my preference), or on Space Cowboy Jeff&#8217;s station.  But I&#8217;ve been trying to get through a couple of the others.  By mistake, I bought a book by this British Anti-Capitalist Feminist author.  I only got about a third of the way through before I moved onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drink-Your-Way-Sober-Science-Based\/dp\/163774739X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=WHGT73K5KVFY&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.LcML4ZbRIn5BNn8PZinTdc24vp2Y0A3Ve2Mxa12KWbLAqzrCqoqdlLQ_R3uyOz7G.NT73fVx-CBaTg6QHFEDzDjR7eU0mGGN2a984w3snP9w&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=katie+herzog+drink+your+way+sober&amp;qid=1780754372&amp;sprefix=katie+herzog%2Caps%2C123&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie Herzog&#8217;s book<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not sure what I think about it, honestly.  I just have never had the constitution to do that much.  Should I be envious?  No, but in a way I am?  I just can&#8217;t let myself get that out-of-control, and never have been able to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife and I have been together for twenty years.  I think she&#8217;s seen me <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>drunk<\/em><\/strong><\/span> twice, maybe?  I can, and do, set up limits on myself.  &#8220;Dry January?&#8221;  Been there, done that, wonder what benefit I got from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll keep whittling through the list over the next few weeks.  Still being cautious with spending, though there isn&#8217;t the urgent reason for it.  But, much like the abstaining from alcohol, I guess I get accustomed to a routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking. of that, I&#8217;m going to do a mini writing streak later this month.  The prompt cards my wife had gotten me as a gift willl get use.  I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll get more in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do have to give the totes-didn&#8217;t-used-to-do-evil company credit for its OCR capabilities in their app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s neat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things.<br>Get.<br>Better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And not because of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my forced poverty, I&#8217;d created a list of books I wanted to read, well listen to on account of my vision, and I&#8217;ve been able to start getting through the list. Sadly, one of the ones near the top of the list doesn&#8217;t show an audiobook on Apple (my preference), or on Space Cowboy [&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-6128","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\/6128","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=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}