{"id":1147,"date":"2011-03-06T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/03\/06\/the-do-over-day\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T18:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T22:59:02","slug":"the-do-over-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1147","title":{"rendered":"The Do-over Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dock_strip.jpg' alt='dock_strip.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March Exercise &#8212;day six&#8212;<\/span> That feeling in the pit of the gut when one\u2019s new car gets its first scratch on bumper, fender, or door\u2014 exactly what I sensed today after my well-meaning blunder rendered Dana\u2019s refurbished Mac Pro unable to start up. Yes, it meant I couldn\u2019t present to her a pristine configuration as the result of my several days of work. But that\u2019s all. No need to get agitated&#8230; no need to react as I might have in the past. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/03\/15\/trusting-my-inner-nerd\/\">Finished is better than perfect.<\/a> Apple anticipates such a thing with its <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht1710\">\u201cArchive and Install\u201d<\/a> option, so use it and don\u2019t fret. I now can see how, in the past, something like this might have set in motion a spiral of self-criticism. And so I put my checklist in reverse, came to terms with a few hours of delay, and took Walie on a long, chilly walk around Bellevue Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Muted tones of stone the same colors as the variegated sky <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> constituting rows of aged grave markers in a sea of desaturated grass.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> The Monday discipline is applied again in earnest . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Exercise &#8212;day six&#8212; That feeling in the pit of the gut when one\u2019s new car gets its first scratch on bumper, fender, or door\u2014 exactly what I sensed today after my well-meaning blunder rendered Dana\u2019s refurbished Mac Pro unable to start up. Yes, it meant I couldn\u2019t present to her a pristine configuration as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,24,34,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}