{"id":2874,"date":"2009-03-15T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2009-03-15T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T22:55:51","slug":"blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/03\/blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My posts have been less frequent and less original. I&#8217;m slipping.<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, thinking about a great train of thought to share. I&#8217;m getting a blank. Nada. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to make of the economy except for an unsubstantiated intuition that this is going to be a difficult couple of years regardless of what is done to try to stabilize the situation. That doesn&#8217;t really help anyone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m suddenly profoundly uninterested in what should be the media&#8217;s very comment-worthy playacting and the simply ridiculous hypocrisy of certain unnamed politicians.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had any profound spiritual\/creative insights this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around on FaceBook too much lately. <\/p>\n<p>I bought two toilets this morning, and I could tell you all about the 2-hour conversation at Home Depot about relative flushing efficiency and amounts of water and the average mass of &#8230;. but really, why?<\/p>\n<p>I did some laundry. Yeah. So?<\/p>\n<p>It seems like my thoughts lately revolve around unresolvable issues, so that&#8217;s kind of an exercise in futility all by itself. Why rehearse it here?<\/p>\n<p>I did enjoy the full moon. Looked at it for a long time, here and there over the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff was all of a social nature:<br \/>\n   Veggie Indian dinner with friends.<br \/>\n   A co-worker&#8217;s birthday lunch.<br \/>\n   Neighbor visit &#8211; lively conversation and a couple of beers.<br \/>\n   Some good conversations on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>My performance review at work was kind of interesting. It was my first one (ever), and I think I did pretty well. There was some unexpected recognition, and even some useful actionables for development. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a red pen.<\/p>\n<p>I did find a cheat for Nintendo DS.<\/p>\n<p>I committed to sending six odd gifts over the next year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not yet called my mom and gramma for the Sunday conversation.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. um&#8230;. yeah. Not much of a post-worthy nature.<\/p>\n<p>This post isn&#8217;t even about nothing, which would be interesting in its exploration of nothingness. <\/p>\n<p>No, this one is just a blank. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should take advantage of it and see if I can get into a zone, you know &#8211; just kind of staring into the middle distance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My posts have been less frequent and less original. I&#8217;m slipping. So here I am, thinking about a great train of thought to share. I&#8217;m getting a blank. Nada. I don&#8217;t know what to make of the economy except for an unsubstantiated intuition that this is going to be a difficult couple of years regardless of what is done to try to stabilize the situation. That doesn&#8217;t really help anyone. I&#8217;m suddenly profoundly uninterested in what should be the media&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2009\/03\/blank\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virushead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}