{"id":84,"date":"2005-09-29T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=84"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:19:24","slug":"why-i-keep-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Why I keep my job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was almost as good as Wednesday in the sense that it was a pleasant day and then it seem to segue into a good denouement but of course, naturally, and wouldn&#8217;t you believe it, life got in the way. Steve missed his flight and had to reroute and spend $700 to change to another flight, work was nutty, and maybe my part is a little hot, hard to tell because if you see it at the beginning in the sunlight you could easily say that but then it would slowly fade and you wouldn&#8217;t notice. But most of all there is just the weather that has changed here and helped the mood. W came home from school saying he had another good day. Won&#8217;rful Wednesday and Terrific Thursday &#8211; he is finding happiness here which is such a small miracle that it is deserves to be recognized.<\/p>\n<p>But when I was smoking up the house it was hard to be pleasant when Steve called to say all that &#8211; I thought I was and was just buying time past fanning the smoke out of the house, getting the steaks done, making sure the butter for the green beans wasn&#8217;t burning and overall just trying to stay positive but from what I heard I was &#8220;mean&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;like when you say I am being a dick, that&#8217;s how you were on the phone&#8221; &#8211; so you take a deep breath.<\/p>\n<p>Les called today to say he again feels he should just tell K that she should make her bed with T and be done with it and that he will come visit and la di da. Sometimes when she calls he will say &#8220;oh honey, that gives me partial wood&#8221; and today when she asked if he loves her truly he said, I love you partially, and that is because he feels like he can&#8217;t commit to her when T is in the picture and also because he doesn&#8217;t have to commit to anyone he has known two months and had to evacuate his home during and I agree with that &#8211; I told him my new mantra is Carpe Diem &#8211; in a big way &#8211; just now, right now, this is good, this is the right spot, this is what I&#8217;m talking about, not tomorrow, not next week, not next year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m leaving Arlington tomorrow and I&#8217;m going to try to make sure every minute spent in a plane, cab, hotel is enjoyable. My immediate goals have shrunk to the hedonistic.<\/p>\n<p>Would you go to Krakow &#8211; yes, of course I would &#8211; it&#8217;s going to be freezing there is all I can think of &#8211; then again, what do I know about freezing having spent the last 100+ days in the air conditioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday was almost as good as Wednesday in the sense that it was a pleasant day and then it seem to segue into a good denouement but of course, naturally, and wouldn&#8217;t you believe it, life got in the way. 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