{"id":9297,"date":"2018-02-05T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T20:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T20:40:30","slug":"another-exciting-installment-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=9297","title":{"rendered":"Another exciting installment of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again, another exciting installment of&#8230;An Exciting Life. woo-hoo. We&#8217;re broke, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=eric_m_allen%40hotmail.com&amp;item_name=Tip%20the%20writer&amp;item_number=001&amp;amount=5.00&amp;no_shipping=1&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0%C2%A4cy_code=USD&amp;lc=US&amp;charset=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tip the writer<\/a>-it&#8217;s only a fiver&#8230; Not much else going on-just trying to keep my head above water, hoping nothing happens to sink us. Our country is in odd turmoil-so much bad happening in D.C. and the media, but it&#8217;s like nothing is wrong on the streets (at least in Portland). That may change.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2-day training, yawn. Had to be there at 7:30. More of a team building exercise. Gamelan-new piece. Easy bus ride, but so tired-I actually slept on the way in. Gonna play bass for choir-practice tonight. It was frustrating-my sight reading sucks, and the bass was tuned a half-step sharp. I got it going OK, but I&#8217;m better with a chart because I need to hit specific notes. Friday-trying to get back into it.<br \/>\nHome, worked out-not really up for it, ate late. I always get so tired on Friday nights. Woke up at 2 and at 7. A big crash on the road in front of our complex-many sirens, didn&#8217;t check it out until way after. Went practice driving with Matt, Gaffers in Tigard, Cabelas, home, C is at his gf&#8217;s. Church Sun, switched to Sprint, new phones for everyone, setup, M to libe, cook dinner, w\/o-fatigued, dinner. E has tummy troubles-this is never-ending, and given our broken healthcare industry, has the possibility of breaking us.<br \/>\nMonday, up, the iPad is missing! Looked around, E is going to look. I know I had it Sun. am while I was eating breakfast. UPDATE: I put it in my leather computer backpack&#8230; Weds., money woes, need to chart the choir pieces, gamelan tonight. Making progress on the project. Got my phone loaded up with music. Now for the other thing-didn&#8217;t work the way I want it&#8230;got another app. Restless sleep. Got up early-ish, to work early-ish, home early-ish? That would be nice. Choir tonight-busy charting the songs. Gonna record so I can practice against it. Did ok-another piece coming.<br \/>\nSat. am, trying to clean-kitchen done, 1 load of wash, bathrooms next. Need to practice. W\/o last night-I&#8217;m making progress, and I think my belly is shrinking. Cleaned all day Sat., church-song went well, played for the postlude too. Libe, shop, home, w\/o, dinner, playing around on the web late, bed, up but tired. Rioting, uh, &#8220;high spirits&#8221;, after Philly won the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Links. brighter side: I need to look some up&#8230;OK-found one. No, two.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.good.is\/articles\/boy-hugs-dogs-in-the-shadows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman Finds The Boy Who Was Secretly Hugging Her Dog<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happify.com<\/a>. Not so bright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/01\/frum-trumpocracy\/550685\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Exit From Trumpocracy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailybanter.com\/2018\/01\/the-american-shithole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The American Shithole<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/whats-so-extremely-uniquely-wrong-about-trumps-presidency\/2018\/01\/19\/431c55ae-fd56-11e7-8f66-2df0b94bb98a_story.html?utm_term=.8bca4fe89ea3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s so extremely, uniquely wrong about Trump\u2019s presidency<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/peek\/donald-trump-useful-idiot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2018\/2\/1\/johann_hari_on_how_the_junk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the \u201cJunk Values\u201d of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the U.S.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/america-diseases-of-poverty_us_5a69f610e4b0dc592a0fe66a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why The U.S. Struggles With Diseases Of Poverty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Page 23, Sentence 5: &#8220;&#8221;How are you?&#8221; the one friend asks the other.&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062820338\/ericallen-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Book of Lykke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listening to:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: xx-small; line-height: 125%; margin-top: -25px;\">apparently, iTunes won&#8217;t let me copy from the Music list on my phone&#8230;more research needed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again, another exciting installment of&#8230;An Exciting Life. woo-hoo. We&#8217;re broke, please\u00a0tip the writer-it&#8217;s only a fiver&#8230; Not much else going on-just trying to keep my head above water, hoping nothing happens to sink us. 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