{"id":184,"date":"2005-01-12T23:05:31","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-01-12T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T04:05:31","slug":"sorry-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/01\/12\/sorry-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"sorry about that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been busy. A casualty of being busy has been this place. Apparently, people have been noticing this; my apologies.<\/p>\n<p>Life is good. Heck, life is great. Every aspect of it seems to be taking a turn for the better. Four weeks ago I was gearing up for another shitty holiday season where I would let myself get down and would spend the entire time in woe-is-me mode.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>I had an amazing Christmas and holiday. I got to hang out with my fam, including the new members thereof. I got to take part in an incredible Christmas eve, a relaxed Christmas Day and dinner, a series of afternoons and evenings out, and an incredible New Year&#8217;s Eve at three different locations with all the people I really like to be around.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, life continues to get better and better. I&#8217;m more focused at work, and am getting rid of all the shit that has been dragging me down. I&#8217;m not throwing up my arms in despair and complaining about the bureaucracy, I&#8217;m making people pay attention by spamming everyone and telling them how fucked things up are, and what needs to be done to fix it (and they&#8217;re actually listening). I&#8217;m hiring new people, empowering others, and setting everything up such that it&#8217;ll run smoothly with minimal intervention. It&#8217;s working &#8211; how weird.<\/p>\n<p>I get to talk to some of the coolest people on the planet on a daily basis, and have managed to get away from constantly bitching about *everything* (although I still marvel publicly about some of the stupid things I am subjected to on a daily basis). I think I am a little more tolerable, but that&#8217;s just a general impression.<\/p>\n<p>Other things are going exceptionally well. I&#8217;ll post an update on some of those next week, I think. No point talking about everything all at once.<\/p>\n<p>In short, life is good, and for the first time in a very, very, very long time, I&#8217;m happy with my place in the universe. I&#8217;m not even worried about my little black cloud, because the person who brought the little black cloud onto the scene in the first place was me. I think I&#8217;ll keep it in storage indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Whee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been busy. A casualty of being busy has been this place. Apparently, people have been noticing this; my apologies. Life is good. Heck, life is great. Every aspect of it seems to be taking a turn for the better. Four weeks ago I was gearing up for another shitty holiday season where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}