{"id":7620,"date":"2013-03-12T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2013-03-12T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T06:05:11","slug":"more-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7620","title":{"rendered":"More fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight savings time is making me very tired indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, after surviving the tower snookering, I noticed that my forearms seemed sore. The tower was wobbly after we took down the guy wires, so I must have been holding on for dear life and my death grip led to sore forearms. It&#8217;s a much better outcome than, say, falling off.<\/p>\n<p>The only other new thing is that I&#8217;m realizing how awful my violin playing sounds. It&#8217;s actually an improvement that I can hear what I should be playing and know when I&#8217;m getting it wrong. It&#8217;s also a good thing that we insulated a lot of our house and it&#8217;s also a good thing that I don&#8217;t play an amplified instrument like the neighbor kid plays. I just keep practicing and tomorrow I should have my first fiddle lesson.<\/p>\n<p>I was kind of upset that the only message I&#8217;ve seen on OKStupid lately is one that said, &#8220;Sorry, not my type,&#8221; but that person certainly isn&#8217;t my type either. Who can&#8217;t be bothered to write in complete sentences? I bet she can&#8217;t spell, either. Plus, most of the time I get NO reply, which at least leaves me with some dignity and the ability to imagine that maybe my email was lost.<\/p>\n<p>So no clear narrative to my life, but at least nothing disastrous at this time, and that&#8217;s ok by me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daylight savings time is making me very tired indeed. Last week, after surviving the tower snookering, I noticed that my forearms seemed sore. The tower was wobbly after we took down the guy wires, so I must have been holding on for dear life and my death grip led to sore forearms. It&#8217;s a much better outcome than, say, falling off. The only other new thing is that I&#8217;m realizing how awful my violin playing sounds. It&#8217;s actually an improvement that I can hear what I should be playing and know when I&#8217;m getting it wrong. It&#8217;s also a good thing that we insulated a lot of our house and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More fun.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}