{"id":408,"date":"2003-04-25T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-25T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2003-04-25T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-25T08:14:00","slug":"408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/408\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying very hard to have some degree of contentment in my life.  I&#8217;m trying to find satisfaction and actualization in the small things I accomplish.  It&#8217;s difficult.  But I&#8217;m trying.  Today, for instance- it&#8217;s not quite 11 AM, and yet I&#8217;ve already had a full day.  I dragged myself out of bed at 6:30, rode into the city for a 7:30 yoga class, did some errands around town, and rode home.  I&#8217;m trying to feel satisfied but mostly I just feel like a big noodle.<\/p>\n<p>Zooey now lives in the cage, or as Ian likes to call it, the old folks&#8217; home.  He&#8217;s out when I&#8217;m out, and at night when all he does is lie like a lump next to my head, but when I even go for groceries he&#8217;s right back in.  He doesn&#8217;t seem to mind too much, although the minute I walk back in the door he&#8217;s howling to get out.  And then he wants to put his butt all over my pillows.  Yuck.  When he was sick he completely destroyed my best sheet set- the set was like a billion thread count and super soft and white and, well, no amount of washing could cure it.  Ah well- yet another lesson in impermanence.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a meeting at one of our sister restaurants today to try to set up a time to do a show.  The restaurant has a jazz club which is dark on many Monday nights, and I&#8217;ve been trying to get a date there on a dark night for months.  Turns out they have been incredibly busy, too much so to listen to the demo I sent them, so I&#8217;m trying a new angle.  I want to put on a show, with my brother, as a benefit for the AIDSRide I&#8217;m doing in September.  If I do it through the restaurant, it will go in the newsletter, which reaches some 50,000 people, and they will open the bar and the kitchen for the show.  It&#8217;s a crazy busy summer, with Ian and Tessa&#8217;s wedding, and hopefully the Fringe Festival for Sean, but I really hope we can get a spot.  Having a date would be really helpful in making ourselves work towards getting this show put together.<\/p>\n<p>My whole block is blooming- the trees, the tulips, the dogs, the people.  We deserve a terrific spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying very hard to have some degree of contentment in my life. I&#8217;m trying to find satisfaction and actualization in the small things I accomplish. It&#8217;s difficult. But I&#8217;m trying. Today, for instance- it&#8217;s not quite 11 AM, and yet I&#8217;ve already had a full day. I dragged myself out of bed at 6:30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}