{"id":354,"date":"2005-06-22T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T02:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/silent-but-still-kicking\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T02:36:25","slug":"silent-but-still-kicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/22\/silent-but-still-kicking\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent but still kicking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I last posted a week ago Saturday.  Sunday afternoon was <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/chorus\/2004-2005season.html#beethoven>another concert<\/a>, Monday evening was <A href=http:\/\/www.sful.org>ultimate<\/a>, Tuesday was a much-needed night off, Wednesday through Saturday evenings were concerts.  Through all of this, I was telling myself, &#8220;I just need to make it through Saturday and everything will be fine.&#8221;  My body apparently took me at my word, and I woke up Sunday with some sort of flu that completely took me out.  I ended up sleeping most of the day Sunday, with my stomach upset enough that I didn&#8217;t eat anything all day except some tortilla chips and half a bowl of soup.  I felt better Monday morning (although not good enough to go play ultimate on Monday evening since I was still lightheaded just walking around the office), which was good because Jofish arrived in town Monday on his way up to Portland for the summer.  So we hung out a bit talking on Monday night, Tuesday evening we went out for sushi and drinks, and here it is Wednesday (Jofish flew to Portland today).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and on top of all the stuff outside of work, at work I was trying to finish up some functionality for another big release to our client of the software that occasioned the big crunch during my first week on the job (<a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/23\/social-craziness\/>mentioned here<\/a>).  We thought we were in great shape a week ago, but the last bit of functionality turned out to be way more complicated and subtle than expected, so instead of taking the two hours I expected it to take, I spent most of the last three days working on it.  We were supposed to release today at noon, but my part still wasn&#8217;t working, which was really stressful.  At 11:30, I called for help, realizing that I was stuck going in circles.  My boss and I put our heads together for an hour or so, figured out a way to refactor the code that made the dependencies more explicit (and thus less prone to me screwing them up as I had been), I spent three more hours actually doing the refactoring, plus another hour to test and debug and fix a few other minor bugs that came up.  Just as we were about to actually do the build at 5:30, the power went out in the building.  Eit.  After twenty minutes of waiting for it to come back on, my boss told us to go home, so we&#8217;ll do the build in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.  In case you were wondering why I haven&#8217;t been posting, now you know.  I also haven&#8217;t been reading, or more accurately, I&#8217;ve been catching up on my backlog Economists and Science Newses, so that&#8217;s why there haven&#8217;t even been any book reviews (although I&#8217;m reasonably close to talking myself into another ten book Amazon order, so that may change soon).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got several posts I&#8217;ve been wanting to write for a while, so I&#8217;m hoping to start to get to those over the next little bit.  I do still have interesting ideas.  Really!  I just need to make the time to write about them.  On days when I&#8217;m not completely braindead from work or extravocational activities.  I&#8217;ll put up one of the light-hearted ones in a second, and maybe start on one of the longer ones to be put up tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I last posted a week ago Saturday. Sunday afternoon was another concert, Monday evening was ultimate, Tuesday was a much-needed night off, Wednesday through Saturday evenings were concerts. Through all of this, I was telling myself, &#8220;I just need to make it through Saturday and everything will be fine.&#8221; My body apparently took me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}