{"id":6,"date":"2008-11-30T18:22:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:15:10","slug":"what-do-i-really-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/2008\/11\/30\/what-do-i-really-need\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I really need?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking- (uht-oh- that’s a bad sign?)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been feeling cramped, and maybe even pushed into a corner. I mean, Cathi didn’t want us to build the dog a kennel in the basement because she didn’t want the poor guy to feel left out, but she didn’t apply that to be being down here & away from everything when I needed to be somewhere where I wouldn’t have constant distractions and snarr comments from a twelve year old who is pushing the envelope, trying to be the alpha male, arguing that what I say is pointless and stomping away to brood and concoct what he believes would be more convincing structure gonflable<\/a> arguments in favour of him getting what he wants, and dismissing what I might say as ridick-lee-ous.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, so what do I need?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If I’m going to be productive, I need a den or office. Some kind of interesting view, or the ability to get up and walk around has always helped, whether I focused on that view or looked through reality to imaginary landscapes… and exercise has always helped, but needing to climb over dog barricades seems to have a negative effect. I think I probably also need a door that can keep cats out, so I don’t return from something and find a legend like, “asdfkjdfhgkjfytusdfkjthiuhigihtuhfkjsnl;;;;” typed across the screen and maybe fifteen or twenty lines of that as cats walked across keyboards and paused to check out what they were writing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Shrug, I really liked the idea of having a second story den or office, with a door to step out onto the fenced off roof over a good solid garage (I was envisioning stone or even cement block construction.) The more I thought about that, the more it grew, gaining a screened off section with an overhanging roof where I could go and sit on nearly perfect days with a laptop on my portable laptop desk thingy, or something like that.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And boxed gardens could probably coax Cathi into visiting this mini paradaise of mine from time to time…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t know- sounds good to me, and it sounds like it might work, I’ll have to keep working on it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I keep singing, “A farm- A farm- a dog needs a farm….” to the tune of Neil Young’s “A Man Needs a Maid”-<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

—–Jim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking- (uht-oh- that’s a bad sign?) I’ve been feeling cramped, and maybe even pushed into a corner. I mean, Cathi didn’t want us to build the dog a kennel in the basement because she didn’t want the poor guy to feel left out, but she didn’t apply that to be being down here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-world-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}