{"id":13673,"date":"2008-10-27T23:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T06:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/27\/things-are-a-scosh-crazy-right-now.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T06:08:30","slug":"things_are_a_scosh_crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/things_are_a_scosh_crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"Things are a scosh crazy right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gong psycho, man!\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/psycho.jpg\" width=\"93\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why. Work has been very busy &#8212; reports and system go-lives and personnel issues and a new fiscal year kicking off. Home, too,&nbsp;has had all sorts of events going on. I&#8217;m doing this gaming Lexicon that usually ends up taking a lot more time than &#8220;write 500 words&#8221; sounds like it should take.&nbsp;There&#8217;s karate. &nbsp;There&#8217;s City of Heroes play, complete with Zombie Apocalypse (which seems to be the MMO theme this year).&nbsp;There&#8217;s karate.&nbsp;There&#8217;s various errands and housekeeping and pumpkin-carving and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There don&#8217;t seem to be enough hours in the day.<\/p>\n<p>I keep making lists of things that need doing, and if I get to about a quarter of them, that seems like a <em>good <\/em>day. Bills to pay, Thankgivings to send invites for, yards to pay attention to, rooms to tidy up. Too many things. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>So I apologize for the dearth of posting here. I actually have a ton of links I want to throw out there before the election in <em><strong>A <u>WEEK<\/u><\/strong><\/em> renders them moot (some non-political posts, too). I am, in fact, looking very much forward to the election, whatever the outcome (which is an easy thing to say when I&#8217;m pretty sure the outcome is going to be what I want), since it will reduce some of the election-news-following-frenzy that&#8217;s been a good chunk of my online life the last month.<\/p>\n<p>But let it be noted that, even as frenzied as things are, and even this late in the evening, I do want to wish my lovely (and ever-patient) wife a Happy Birthday. Kiss-kiss, love!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why. Work has been very busy &#8212; reports and system go-lives and personnel issues and a new fiscal year kicking off. Home, too,&nbsp;has had all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-jollies","category-love-and-marriage","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11776,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/orange_is_the_new_white.html","url_meta":{"origin":13673,"position":0},"title":"Orange is the new White","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Feb-08 8:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Went to karate tonight instead of tomorrow, since tomorrow I'll off at the Caucus (woo-hoo). 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