{"id":10347,"date":"2019-01-06T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2019-01-16T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:24:01","slug":"whats-a-new-year-among-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a New Year among friends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#75edf0\"><strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/ericmathewallen?country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tip the writer<\/a>. Whatever amount you like-every little bit helps, and I&#8217;ll do a shoutout. We are always short of cash, especially with a big mortgage. Let me know if you or someone you know needs web design\/development-my rates aren&#8217;t bad, and I&#8217;m more than pretty good at it. Java\/database\/AWS\/UI too. ThankYouVeryMuch!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK, time for the first paragraph. The new year is here, holidays are past. Busy as usual, still short of ca$h-hit that tip link, please! The world is busy turning, with the same stuff happening-&#8217;round and &#8217;round we go. I have stuff to do, but the house is staying clean. Gov&#8217;t is half shut down, Dems are running the House. The mess continues-are the financial markets next? I&#8217;d rather watch skiing-Mikaela Shiffrin is a rockstar. And listen to Veruca Salt. Need to play my instruments more. Dreamt about playing drums last night. That&#8217;s it for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">End of day Friday. Back OK, shoulder and knee not. I have to figure out whether I want to work out, and whether I should leave early. Decisions, decisions. And bills need to be paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The History of the World: Every Year\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6Wu0Q7x5D0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>This is pretty cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watching South Park late Friday. Watched more TV, skipped w\/o, Winco, paid only the bills due. Need to do the math on the rest&#8230;and now it&#8217;s Saturday. Slept in, got the kitchen in shape, slowly started on the living room, started the dishwasher, made espresso-the grinder wasn&#8217;t fine enough&#8230;E said &#8220;such a first world problem&#8230;&#8221; Time to empty the dishwasher and start doing laundry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In bed, house is clean, time to sleep. I messed up a white shirt by putting it in with a red sheet. It&#8217;s only pink in a few places, because I noticed it quickly. Still a shame&#8230;(wore it Friday, it was OK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday between Xmas and New Year&#8217;s. Working from home. Got a flu shot. Xmas was pretty quiet-C&#8217;s GF stayed over, made food, hung out, got a Sonicare. House is pretty tidy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here we are, a week later. Saturday, sitting at the kitchen table drinking cappucino and tabletising. House is pretty clean, so not much to do. W\/o last night-M is still sick, my knee is still not 100%. Had yummy oatmeal via rice cooker, shared with S. Back home, 10# turkey was $5-that&#8217;s what&#8217;s for dinner, and leftovers, and soup stock. Last week was pretty chill-work, home, w\/o Tue. &amp; Fri., not much for New Years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday. Skipped church, made rice for breakfast. Work last night-no issues except an expired license. Email sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links. brighter side: (no kittens or puppies, sorry!). Not so bright: everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Page 23, sentence 5.\u201cIf anything, the amount of information was overwhelming and confusing, because it was contradictory or simply didn&#8217;t resonate with me at the time.\u201d, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1492665541\/ericallen-20\" target=\"_blank\">Slow-Simple Living for a Frantic World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, time for the first paragraph. The new year is here, holidays are past. Busy as usual, still short of ca$h-hit that tip link, please! The world is busy turning, with the same stuff happening-&#8217;round and &#8217;round we go. I have stuff to do, but the house is staying clean. Gov&#8217;t is half shut down, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=10347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s a New Year among friends?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10405,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}