{"id":2222,"date":"2017-05-14T22:57:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2017-05-14T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:57:05","slug":"ambient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"ambient"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I really should be in bed.  There&#8217;s a soft, gray, nearly 1-year-old kitten in my lap, though, that makes it hard to get up.  He&#8217;s sliding off; hang on&#8230;  OK; now we&#8217;re good.<\/li>\n<li>Well, the Mac Mini arrived yesterday, and&#8230;it won&#8217;t work.  Despite the fact that the eBay listing clearly stated the computer would come with 10.5 preinstalled, it had 10.7, which is too new to run FormZ.  I really should upgrade to the latest version of the software at some point, but that&#8217;s over a grand for the package I need, and the version I have does everything I need it to&#8212;except run on the latest Mac OS.  Hopefully the eBay conflict resolution service will come through for me.<\/li>\n<li>Diane and I have been trying to make it through the LOTR Extended Edition again, but we&#8217;ve stalled out in Lothl\u00f3rien.  I suppose there are worse places to be stuck.<\/li>\n<li>Pen and I discovered a cardinal&#8217;s nest earlier in the evening.  We were jumping on the trampoline in the backyard when we heard a mother cardinal doing her angry chirp.  A little investigation and we found a low-hanging nest with a chick and two eggs in it.  Phoebe was nearby, but fortunately she wasn&#8217;t aware of the nest.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been playing <em>Escape Velocity: Nova<\/em> in fits and starts.  It&#8217;s nice but not quite as engrossing as its predecessor (<em>EV:Override<\/em>) that I used to play during my junior year of college.  I got into it, but Mark (my roommate at the time) didn&#8217;t dig it quite as much.  I can&#8217;t remember whether that was during my straight-A semester or not.  I think it was.  Wish I had had that balance of focus and enjoyment all throughout college.  So, so much time wasted in so many ways.  I&#8217;m still so ashamed when I think about it.<\/li>\n<li>I want to freelance full-time.  I&#8217;m tired of the 9-to-5 (aren&#8217;t we all?).  Too risky, though, at this point in our family life.  Maybe later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really should be in bed. There&#8217;s a soft, gray, nearly 1-year-old kitten in my lap, though, that makes it hard to get up. He&#8217;s sliding off; hang on&#8230; OK; now we&#8217;re good. Well, the Mac Mini arrived yesterday, and&#8230;it won&#8217;t work. Despite the fact that the eBay listing clearly stated the computer would come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}