{"id":646,"date":"2009-08-11T02:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-08-11T02:39:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T10:39:17","slug":"and-so-it-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/08\/11\/and-so-it-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"and so it goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes colorized output just stabs you in the face when it&#8217;s full of errors. Maybe that time is just when it&#8217;s 3:30am. Usually when I work all night I come back after dinner, the garage is locked, so have my bike up in the office and ride it around when I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/303\/\">waiting<\/a>. As I walk to hit the relay on the damn hippie energy saving light controller relay, <strong>again<\/strong>, I wonder where my bike is. When did I get here? Wait, what day is it? When did I sleep last? Oh, right, this afternoon. I got here this morning, well, Monday morning. I think. Right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But you can make decisions too<br \/>\nAnd you can have this heart to break<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chapter three opens with commentary about how much (a lot) music &#8220;expressed please for return of feeling&#8221; and &#8220;contained mournful descriptions of the pain of unreturned love&#8221;. Some day I&#8217;ll write a book about this shit. Oh wait, I did. It&#8217;s just a really, really rough draft. Mother thinks she&#8217;s read this before and leaves me a note expressing that what touches you is meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking earlier about communication and wrote to a stranger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about communication a lot lately. You ever wonder if it&#8217;s getting cliche? I mean, I feel like I don&#8217;t meet many people who are against communication so all I can think of is social stereotypes. Granted, despite interacting with a relatively disparate set of social groups, my control group is somewhat tainted because I consider the majority of them good people. Hmm. I don&#8217;t know, made me think about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through a twist I got thinking about confidence, how I have it, and how I didn&#8217;t always. Why I do, and when I <em>feel<\/em> like I don&#8217;t. Vulnerability&#8230; Everybody hurts sometimes. How to remember that, when you&#8217;ve been hurt? Should you? We flinch for our own safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes colorized output just stabs you in the face when it&#8217;s full of errors. Maybe that time is just when it&#8217;s 3:30am. Usually when I work all night I come back after dinner, the garage is locked, so have my bike up in the office and ride it around when I&#8217;m waiting. As I walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}