{"id":1380,"date":"2011-08-27T10:42:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-01-13T00:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T00:37:59","slug":"a-week-into-my-vacation-and-im-still-not-relaxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"A week into my vacation and I&#8217;m still not relaxed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If anyone has been watching this site for updates, I have to apologize. It&#8217;s been (even more) hectic at work lately and by the time I get home, I haven&#8217;t had the energy to blog. In fact, the list of things I&#8217;ve been avoiding is much longer than just blogging:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>getting exercise \/ biking &#8212; nope.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>spending time with Deb &#8212; not enough, except for when we go out for dinner (but that&#8217;s mostly to avoid cooking).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>electronic music &#8212; not even a new synth was enough to make that happen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cello practice &#8212; holy mackerel the music for the fall is <em>hard<\/em>; an hour a day wouldn&#8217;t be enough to play it properly and I&#8217;m doing less than half that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>helping Dennis learn controllerism &#8212; bought him the hardware and a copy of Ableton; nothing since then.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>web skills development &#8212; Deb deserves more than what I built her at <a href=\"https:\/\/sheepsahoy.com\/\">Sheeps Ahoy<\/a>, but it would take months of learning to get there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>walking the dogs &#8212; a total of <em>twice<\/em> this summer. ugh!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>work around the house &#8212; well, I&#8217;ve done some of that this week, at least.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cooking &#8212; only when Deb makes me BBQ.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Whew! Even if I had the <em>time<\/em> to do all these things (i.e. I was retired) I still wouldn&#8217;t have the energy for all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m a week into my vacation, and I&#8217;m still not relaxed. However, I am starting to surface (as witnessed by the soul searching above). Hopefully, that&#8217;s a good sign. Last week the list looked like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>re-arranged the bedroom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>got in a car accident &#8212; no one hurt; not my fault<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>started cleaning out the garage, but there&#8217;s more to do this week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>helped Deb through a bad bout of stomach &#8220;flu&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>spent a really fun day with her on our anniversary, including seeing the Caravaggio exhibit at the gallery<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>put her on a plane for California<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>played *way* too much of the new Deus Ex game  <em>[note: Yesterday they rolled out a patch to fix the long load times: down to 10 seconds from almost a minute before]<\/em><em><br><br><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it goes this week. I&#8217;ll post if I get some new music made. Otherwise (for those I work with), see you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has been watching this site for updates, I have to apologize. It&#8217;s been (even more) hectic at work lately and by the time I get home, I haven&#8217;t had the energy to blog. In fact, the list of things I&#8217;ve been avoiding is much longer than just blogging: Whew! Even if I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}