{"id":196,"date":"2006-06-19T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2006-06-19T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T02:38:00","slug":"personal-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned recently how much I love <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~CM\">Cambridge<\/a>?  Cambridge is the center of my world and the meeting point of all things good: <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~MIT\">MIT<\/a>, with it&#8217;s infinity of communities; <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~BC\">Carolingia<\/a>, the finest Barony in the Known World; the <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~FBC\">Full Body Cast<\/a>, alternative life lived to the fullest.  [I&#8217;m exploring adding links to explain references between my various communities; though I expect they&#8217;re usually not needed.]<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, when the FBC preshow meeting ran short, I put in my first appearance at SCA dance practice in more than six months, dragging along a new friend from Rocky.  I&#8217;d abandoned the SCA when consulting got crazy before my trip, but it was so excellent seeing my old friends that I need to start juggling the two again.  Afterwards at <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?tosci\">Tosci&#8217;s<\/a>, the discussion raged between cross-dressing, <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~LARP\">LARPing<\/a> conventions, aging, Pennsic, and Rocky (brough up by another Scadian), when a large birthday crowd from <a href=\"http:\/\/existencia.org\/go\/?~RHl\">Random Hall<\/a> burst in.  It was a beautiful confluence of our small world of the weird.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, after much work, my apartment is feeling well enough to accept visitors, and <a href=\"http:\/\/senor_don_gato.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">senor_don_gato<\/a> is helping me design my kitchen.  My consulting prospects are looking ideal, with two excellent companies doing very different kinds of work, and enough time left over to pursue personal projects.  I&#8217;ve settled into a new way to keep track of 50+ blogs and news sources using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogbridge.com\/\">BlogBridge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcount.org\/main.php\">WordCount<\/a>, and a better calendar system using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/\">Emacs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/phpicalendar.net\/\">PHP iCalendar<\/a>.  And somehow I ended up being responsible for a cat and an iguana.  So life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned recently how much I love Cambridge? Cambridge is the center of my world and the meeting point of all things good: MIT, with it&#8217;s infinity of communities; Carolingia, the finest Barony in the Known World; the Full Body Cast, alternative life lived to the fullest. [I&#8217;m exploring adding links to explain references &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}