{"id":581,"date":"2010-01-23T10:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2010-01-23T10:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T16:04:32","slug":"not-really-goofing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Not Really Goofing Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days with no posts to this blog&#8230;o woe.\u00a0\u00a0 But it&#8217;s been a busy two days for me, and I offer up the following excuses.\u00a0\u00a0 Finishing (through several drafts) the required annual wildlife management report for the county tax appraisal district and turning it in.\u00a0 (For more details, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/\">80 acres blog<\/a>.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then there was son&#8217;s first week of college, with some unexpected bits that aren&#8217;t even given on my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedofdark-thebook.com\/blog\/\"> autism-related blog<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/e-moon60.livejournal.com\/247220.html\">LiveJournal<\/a> account.\u00a0\u00a0 And the essay I&#8217;m working on for the Texas A&amp;M SF exhibition based on their large collection.\u00a0\u00a0 And the blog entries my publishers would like me to do on<em> their <\/em>sites.\u00a0 And prep for ConDFW.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And prep for the release date of the new book.<!--more-->So if you were getting ready to land on me for goofing off&#8230;mercy, mercy, I cry. \u00a0 (Did I mention making bread in there somewhere?\u00a0 And various other necessary household stuff?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Well count that too.)<\/p>\n<p>Working on other stuff does not preclude thinking about the new book (the newest new book) as long as I don&#8217;t drive into something or stop in the middle of the grocery store parking lot deep in thought.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One current and pressing issue is &#8220;Who really does have the necklace, and where is it?&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 A no longer has it and I think is dead.\u00a0 B and C had it only briefly.\u00a0\u00a0 They don&#8217;t count.\u00a0 But D&#8230;does D still have it?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Or did D pass it on to E (and when, where, why?)<\/p>\n<p>And where does the sand painting come in?<\/p>\n<p>And who<em> is<\/em> that masked man?\u00a0 (It&#8217;s not Arvid, that much I know. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days with no posts to this blog&#8230;o woe.\u00a0\u00a0 But it&#8217;s been a busy two days for me, and I offer up the following excuses.\u00a0\u00a0 Finishing (through several drafts) the required annual wildlife management report for the county tax appraisal district and turning it in.\u00a0 (For more details, see the 80 acres blog.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[106,112,20,107],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-contents","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}