{"id":1554,"date":"2003-11-12T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/11\/12\/1554.html"},"modified":"2003-11-12T23:40:45","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T07:40:45","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/11\/12\/updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hmm, been a while since I've posted here.<\/p>\n<p>Assorted updates, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handyman guy is very close to being completely done with work on my house.  I'm very pleased with his work; I'd have been a little more pleased if it had gone faster, but I'll settle for quality over speed in almost any context.<\/li>\n<li>Having trouble getting in touch with recommended person to clean the place before I move in.  Also getting in touch with recommended movers.  Current plan: I pack for the next week and a half, then move the weekend of the 22nd.  But a lot depends on movers' availability.<\/li>\n<li>Have been pleased this past week or so to have been getting plenty of sleep for once, but of course was awakened at 6:30 by loud cars again this morning, sigh.<\/li>\n<li>For perhaps the first time ever, I've got four future weeks' worth of fiction completely edited and ready to go, and two more in progress.  Hope I can push on and get even further ahead in the next few weeks; I'd ideally like to be at least eight weeks ahead.  But given that I've never been more than four weeks ahead, I should probably settle for baby steps.<\/li>\n<li>Watched a bunch of movies lately.  In addition to the already-mentioned <cite>Royal Tenenbaums<\/cite> and <cite>Bamboozled,<\/cite> in the past few days I've seen:\n<ul>\n<li><cite>The Red Violin<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>Fantasia 2000<\/cite><\/li>\n<li><cite>The Matrix Revolutions<\/cite><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I seem to have neglected to mention here that Tim and Heather accepted an article of mine (on prescriptivism, descriptivism, and editing) for <cite>Flytrap;<\/cite> from what I've heard of the other material they've accepted, I expect to be in good company.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Anne's and my collaboration proceeds, though slowly.  I gotta go work on that shortly, before I get too sleepy.<\/li>\n<li>Had a bizarre minor adventure with an ATM this past weekend.  Short version: the ATM at the main branch of my bank ate my card on Sunday night.  Monday morning I went in to find out what was up, and they returned the card to me with a shrug, as if to indicate that there was nothing particularly unusual about the situation.  They said there was nothing wrong with my account, and the card now seems to work, so I guess it was just a fluke.  Still, I would expect someone at the bank to at least pretend to be concerned about this kind of thing.<\/li>\n<li>Panther (a.k.a Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X version 10.3) is working pretty well for me, with a few notable exceptions.<\/li>\n<li>I have all sorts of articles and tidbits to point to, but they'll have to wait for another entry, 'cause I'm getting sleepy and I still have some fiction to write tonight.\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, been a while since I&#8217;ve posted here. Assorted updates, in no particular order: Handyman guy is very close to&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}