{"id":7668,"date":"2010-06-08T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:09:07","slug":"woodchips-and-sawdust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/woodchips-and-sawdust\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodchips and Sawdust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting into anything else: <em><strong>yes<\/strong><\/em>, <a title=\"Earlier RAMH post: 'Official 2010 Write Your A** Off Day (Pt 2)'\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/official-2010-write-your-a-off-day-pt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">as previously reported<\/a> (or implied!) I will be trying my damnedest to Write My A** Off this Saturday, June 12.<\/p>\n<p>And wow, I&#8217;ve gotta say &#8212; it&#8217;s way overdue for me. This has been one of the longest dry spells of writing I&#8217;ve gone through in almost three years. Blog posts aside (so yes, technically I <em>have <\/em>been writing&#8230;), over the last two months or so I think I&#8217;ve written no more than a couple-three hundred words on any single day. And that&#8217;s been very scattered, un- or utterly misdirected, fitful. I&#8217;m determined to turn that around, though. This morning I did a little over 500 words, simply by forcing myself to start typing, and maybe I&#8217;ll be able to get something crankin&#8217; by Saturday. I sure hope so. This has made me miserable &#8212; literally, beyond words.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a couple of minor things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We got back from New Orleans fairly late Sunday night. Although I was able to at least visit my favorite blogs over the weekend, via Blackberry, I&#8217;m lamentably behind on reading for real, let alone commenting. I&#8217;ll get back into that rhythm soon too, I hope.<\/li>\n<li>In <a title=\"Comment from Froog on 'If You Can Believe It...' post\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/if-you-can-believe-it-or-even-if-you-cant\/#comment-16443\" target=\"_blank\">a weekend comment<\/a> on a post here, Froog reported that <em>Running After My Hat<\/em> had been loading painfully slowly for him. I&#8217;d noticed it too, frankly, although I thought it might have something to do with other network problems. Froog&#8217;s comment led me to poke around in a couple of suspiciously soft spots in the infrastructure. I&#8217;m not a hundred percent sure, but I think I&#8217;ve traced the problem to that Google Buzz thingumabob <a title=\"Earlier RAMH post: 'Review: Shades of Grey,' by Jasper Fforde\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/review-shades-of-grey-by-jasper-fforde\/\" target=\"_blank\">I mentioned<\/a> in an aside a couple of posts ago. So I disabled that thing &#8212; I don&#8217;t care how cool or interesting a feature is, if it cripples a site&#8217;s basic functionality it&#8217;s not worth including. Do let me know if any of you are experiencing other (or the same!) problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting into anything else: yes, as previously reported (or implied!) I will be trying my damnedest to Write My A** Off this Saturday, June 12. And wow, I&#8217;ve gotta say &#8212; it&#8217;s way overdue for me. This has been one of the longest dry spells of writing I&#8217;ve gone through in almost three years. 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