Sure seems like a lot of stressful stuff happening lately.<\/p>\n
There's the big-picture world-news stuff, of course: Sri Lanka at war; Australia struck by fires and floods; world economy in collapse; etc.<\/p>\n
And then there's the more personal-scale stuff.<\/p>\n
Some of it has involved me: I nearly got hit by an SUV while biking home two weeks ago (they turned left either on a very stale yellow or running the red; somehow I didn't see them even though I had just looked at the lane they must have come from; we both stopped in time, so no harm done); I nearly had an accident with another car on the way to dinner this past Sunday (they went through an intersection after, apparently, stopping at a stop sign; presumably they didn't see me coming, and I may've been going slightly (but not much) too fast; we both slammed on the brakes, and stopped a few feet from each other); and then there was the episode Saturday night when Kam and I took some people to pick up cars that had been towed and things got tense. And I've had a steady stream of fairly minor but time-consuming and annoying computer problems. And I got a little stressed over the weekend when my to-do list hit 100 items.<\/p>\n
But although there've been some near misses, nothing bad has actually happened to me lately. Whereas a friend just told me about being hit<\/em> by an SUV while bicycling last week (thankfully no physical damage to any people, but the bike didn't do so well), and being mistreated by a police officer right afterward; and then there's another friend whose roof caught on fire<\/a> while they were at an amusement park celebrating their wedding anniversary; and then there are friends whose parents are having medical issues, and friends having family issues; and so on.<\/p>\n There've been plenty of good things lately too, of course. For example, Kam's buying a condo, and just finally got the long-delayed contract. And I bought half a dozen lovely and comfortable wooden chairs to replace my old ones that were falling apart, and have assembled four of them. And I had a good evening last night.<\/p>\n But it still seems like a lot of people have been going through a lot of bad stuff lately. Or maybe I'm just being more stressed by the bad stuff than usual.<\/p>\n Anyway, if you have good news you feel like sharing, it would be even more welcome than usual.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sure seems like a lot of stressful stuff happening lately. There’s the big-picture world-news stuff, of course: Sri Lanka at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}