{"id":237,"date":"2020-04-27T17:37:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.vectrocom.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T17:37:19","slug":"in-which-the-here-it-took-me-two-months-to-get-to-is-described","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vectrocom.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/in-which-the-here-it-took-me-two-months-to-get-to-is-described\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which The Here It Took Me Two Months To Get To Is Described"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I didn’t always<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’m writing this now, because today I figured out why I haven’t written anything in here since February 24, 2020. Which is kind of a long time for a guy out of work who was going to practice writing blog entries every day to not actually do that every day but here I am back again, run on sentences and all, so let me try to explain, because it’s interesting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, been out of practice. Let me try again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19’s been quite a bugbear. Something deep in my slowly unraveling hypothalamus wants me to try to make a joke about bugs and bear markets but that’s as close as I’ll get and it’s pretty fuckin’ far away, just like my time horizon isn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait. I just can’t seem to get this right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning I was thinking, I should get my ass back in gear.<\/em> See, I’ve been slacking off in so many ways basically living day to day, and it occurred to me that all the things I wanted to do – the things that would make life better, were things that didn’t have an immediate payoff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason I wasn’t doing anything: my time horizon had been reset to almost zero, because the universe was on hold and I was thinking I could catch a Chinese superflu that could punch my ticket early on this planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why write a novel? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why practice blogging? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why learn to play piano, or get physically fit? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly right – if you don’t have a future then there’s no reason to do just about anything apart from mindlessly reload Twitter, finish Half-Life: Black Mesa, and drink. Which is just about all I’ve been doing, at least that I care to mention here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, and taking care of my family and not going out of my mind in any other appreciable way, while the more normal people of my acquaintance do occasionally lose it. I get to be the one inoculated to intellecthorrhages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today, for some reason, I don’t know. I feel like Tyrion in the last episode of Game of Thrones to contain any elements that were marginally not terrible (take your time to parse that one) and I’m thinking…yeah. I might survive this whole COVID-19 thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if I’m gonna survive that means I’ll be around, and if that mean I’ll be around I’d better start doing shit again and I see my time horizon moving back out, and that’s a good thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike this blog entry, which is a terrible thing. I will follow up with something better tomorrow, because I’m reasonably confident…I’ll be here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m writing this now, because today I figured out why I haven’t written anything in here since February 24, 2020. Which is kind of a long time for a guy out of work who was going to practice writing blog entries every day to not actually do that every day but here I am back … <\/p>\n

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