{"id":251,"date":"2019-01-27T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T21:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:41:11","slug":"as-it-turns-out-im-pretty-bad-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/as-it-turns-out-im-pretty-bad-at-this\/","title":{"rendered":"As it turns out, I&#8217;m pretty bad at this."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This &#8220;blogging on the regular&#8221; thing, that is.  Still, I&#8217;m going to give it a shot, once again: no merit in abusing myself for not doing it, so let&#8217;s set that aside and carry on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I type, it&#8217;s a frosty late-January afternoon &#8211; the laundry is on, there&#8217;s cauliflower roasting for tonight&#8217;s soup, foccacia bread is rising, and Mark is doing his best to locate some creepy swamp people in <em>Red Dead Redemption 2.<\/em>  Outside, Nature has elected to dump a blinding-white powdery snow on top of everything. Probably I OUGHT to be shoveling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not shoveling it.  Instead I am having a second coffee, though I will likely regret the not-shoveling later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan is: Two hundred words, most days.  About anything.  I can do that, surely; I can use up two hundred words writing an email to re-schedule a meeting.  Build a routine, and therefore a habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the first order of business shall be to do a few improvements around here.  I&#8217;m no graphic designer, but at least I can make sure all the proper plugins are installed and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, here&#8217;s one of the songs that&#8217;s been an earworm for me lately:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVImwSb4EYU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading right now: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28588390-a-study-in-scarlet-women\">A Study in Scarlet Women<\/a>  &#8211; a gender-swapped Holmes story as written by an author of mainly historical romances.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing right now: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/580200\/Yonder_The_Cloud_Catcher_Chronicles\/\">Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles<\/a> &#8211; A preposterously relaxing open-world adventure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;blogging on the regular&#8221; thing, that is. Still, I&#8217;m going to give it a shot, once again: no merit in abusing myself for not doing it, so let&#8217;s set that aside and carry on. As I type, it&#8217;s a frosty late-January afternoon &#8211; the laundry is on, there&#8217;s cauliflower roasting for tonight&#8217;s soup, foccacia &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/as-it-turns-out-im-pretty-bad-at-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As it turns out, I&#8217;m pretty bad at this.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-whatnot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}