I feel like New Year’s just passed.<\/p>\n
What have I done… let’s see.<\/p>\n
I went to that beer,bourbon,and barbecue festival<\/a>, said goodbye<\/a> to a friend who moved to vegas, and A and I also went to the zoo in the winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n I’ve lost about 15 lbs. I have about another 30 to go before I am comfortable again, 60 before I am where I want to be.<\/p>\n I kickstarted the tech for a discount ticket box office (which involved a cameo to the guts of the discount ticket center at Times Square – holy crap was that intense). I’ve downshifted into new responsibilities in my job. I’ve absorbed a huge amount of data for a call-center system automation system. I’ve learned more about telefundraising than I ever wanted to. I’ve started trying to think about my future in a scalable way, rather than an infinite thread spiralling out ahead of me. A late-night conversation with I’ve grown increasingly dissatisfied with my lot, and increasingly convinced that it is not a great time to be shaking trees in a paralell or advancement move. I’m not at the point where I can be considering demotion – too many things on the horizon. As long as I can rein in my frustrations at the crux moments, I should be able to skate for a while. I need to get signed up for a certification course.<\/p>\n Every spring since the year after it came out, I’ve read Stephen King’s “IT”. Usually, sometime around April\/May, I have a dream, which always makes me crave the book. This year, that dream came the eve of a day that was tied to both a huge flood in Germany in the 60’s, and the mudslide in the Phillipines a few years back. The dream always features a flood, and always links in to the opening scene of the book. Maybe because of Hati, maybe because of some springtime connection, this year, the dream featured both water and mud. I am wondering if on some level my subconscious is parsing all this stuff, creating patterns for me, or if this is all just coincidence that I am ascribing meaning to. Once that dream comes, the book has to follow, or the dreams get worse – there is catharsis somewhere in the story that lets the valves blow off the steam that accumulates through a year. A horrifying thought, abstractly, that something like “IT” is what it takes for my brain to stretch out the fatigue, particularly coming two\/three months earlier than usual, but I do not question the tonic what heals my woes.<\/p>\n I’ve not written much of note, despite stories moving along rapidly, which irritates me. I’ve tackled innumerable side jobs, in an attempt to finance a healty tax biil, and a vacation planned prior to the establishement of said tax bill. <\/p>\n I need to focus on appreciating the largesse of good things in my life, instead of bemoaning the neighbor’s lawn.<\/p>\n I definitely need to get back into a better writing groove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel like New Year’s just passed. What have I done… let’s see. I went to that beer,bourbon,and barbecue festival, said goodbye to a friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/5067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}