{"id":14038,"date":"2012-03-29T01:07:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T08:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2012\/03\/29\/14038.html"},"modified":"2012-03-29T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T08:07:30","slug":"birthday-week-definitely-impro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2012\/03\/29\/birthday-week-definitely-impro\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday week definitely improving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some good things from today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>People sent me happy birthdays on Facebook and in email all day. A steady stream of little jolts of happiness. Thank you all!<\/li>\n  <li>Had a nice chat with Mary Anne after a few days of out-of-sync timing preventing calls.<\/li>\n  <li>Just as I was starting the last documentation review of the week, the one that I was expecting to have to spend all day on, I found out that the launch had been postponed and I could wait &#8217;til next week to do the review.<\/li>\n  <li>Which left me with enough time to get through a dozen or more long-delayed to-do items that I hadn't thought I would have time to do before the end of the quarter.<\/li>\n  <li>The sun was more or less out for some of the day, after a few days of rain and gloomy overcast.<\/li>\n  <li>I made it to the post office in time to mail a package that I'd been meaning to mail for a couple days.<\/li>\n  <li>When I got home, there was a paper card from one of my nieces (who, I hear, cleverly used my birthday as a justification for eating cupcakes&mdash;nicely done!) and her parents, and an electronic card from my other niece and her parents.<\/li>\n  <li>Ended up having a late dinner with N, who happened to suggest dinner without even knowing it was my birthday; I had made no other plans due to working late, but we were both working late, so it worked out nicely.<\/li>\n  <li>Got to read the first few chapters of <cite>The Thirteen Clocks<\/cite> aloud. I've been really pleased to get chances to read various of my childhood-favorite books aloud to friends lately. (Although sad that said books are too often rather short on female characters, sigh.)<\/li>\n  <li>Read and enjoyed more bits of <cite>A Civil Contract<\/cite> while walking from place to place and waiting in various lines. Also, listened to music I like while driving to and from work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So all in all, today was a pretty good day. Thanks to everyone who helped make that happen!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good things from today: People sent me happy birthdays on Facebook and in email all day. A steady stream&#8230;<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","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=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}