{"id":2915,"date":"2008-10-23T23:04:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2026-01-31T21:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:50:22","slug":"these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/10\/23\/these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days I make notes on paper of cute things Bean does, and whenever I get to sit at the computer to write, it&#8217;s at the opposite end of the house. So the list keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>To relax these days, I&#8217;m not reading, or knitting, or doing anything creative. I have been sucked into episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/series\/house\/\">House<\/a>, just at I was smitten with the series <a href=\"http:\/\/scrubs-tv.com\/\">Scrubs<\/a> in 2007. After the first episode of House, I thought it was simplistic, formulaic, and that the character was absolutely unsympathetic and uncompelling. But I watched a second episode, and then another, and then I was hooked. My brain is too fried to analyze why, except that Hugh Laurie has managed to bring something redeeming to the misanthropic character.<\/p>\n<p>There are changes afoot at Husband&#8217;s job, and they are not good changes. I&#8217;m not sure how this will play out in the long run. Let&#8217;s just say that we&#8217;ve had a good run for several years and in the tech industry, there is no such thing as retiring from a company after working 20-30 years there. Things might end up staying pretty much the same &#8212; it&#8217;s just that we don&#8217;t know, and I don&#8217;t like <em>not knowing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I need sleep. I&#8217;ve been staying up too late the past three nights, and it shows by the end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days I make notes on paper of cute things Bean does, and whenever I get to sit at the computer to write, it&#8217;s at the opposite end of the house. So the list keeps growing. To relax these days, I&#8217;m not reading, or knitting, or doing anything creative. I have been sucked into episodes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}