{"id":122,"date":"2010-07-09T03:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/progress\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T03:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:06:58","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know when you go to work, then come home, and sleep until the next day&#8230;and the only thing that keeps you going is the thought of the weekend? Well it&#8217;s not been like that for me, but Michele has been working 12 hour days recently and so it all seems quite heavy; we seem to spend so little time together. But we have found opportunities to enjoy life, and that must be a good thing, mustn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nThere are lots of other good things going on that I can&#8217;t blog about, but regardless my day job is currently challenging, interesting, and full of funny people, so I can&#8217;t complain.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s difficult not to start philosophising[en-us spell-checks don&#8217;t like the &#8220;s&#8221; there btw. Fuck them.] about growing older, but of course we all do. As you probably know, I&#8217;m a youthful 22 year old. However it turns out that Mr Passage-of-Time has ordained that despite this fact, I&#8217;m actually nearly 40; ridiculous I&#8217;m sure you agree. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/investment-ideas\/features\/vox\/is-microsoft-heading-the-way-of-the-dinosaur\/article1630885\/\" title=\"Microsoft, are the innovative\">Is Microsoft Crap<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0\" title=\"Capitalism doesn't work\">The recent economic problems in sane and educated terms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\" title=\"Psychoville\">Psychoville<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Weirdly, I&#8217;ve switched from hating OOP to being a sub-classing fool.<\/li>\n<li>Our excellent neighbour and friend Brendan has been driving me to and from work in this outrageous heat&#8230;he&#8217;ll never know how much I appreciate it &#8211; I would be dead by now otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Autobiography-Grow-Up-Keith-Allen\/dp\/0091910706\" name=\"Grow Up\">Keith Allen&#8217;s autobiography<\/a> is a brilliant, funny, and fascinating way to spend time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know when you go to work, then come home, and sleep until the next day&#8230;and the only thing that keeps you going is the thought of the weekend? Well it&#8217;s not been like that for me, but Michele has been working 12 hour days recently and so it all seems quite heavy; we seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}