{"id":15502,"date":"2010-07-28T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/07\/28\/the-twitch-response\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:17","slug":"the-twitch-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/07\/28\/the-twitch-response\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twitch Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\">The last few days, I&#8217;ve been finding that the constant twitch-muscle-type effect of constant information flow is making my brain feel restless, worried, and unable to focus on all the things I&#8217;m excited about working on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">This morning, the fella&#8217;s alarm went off, making its loveable sound like someone pressing a Dremel tool to my ear, and my brain was off to the races. Rather than rolling over and checking who said what on Twitter or whether I had any e-mails, I started thinking about a last-minute webinar invitation I had to write for my client today. All kinds of ideas tumbled out like a box of Slinkies down the stairs, and I had to get up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">So here it is, 9:23AM, and I&#8217;ve already done my work for the day. There&#8217;s more &#8212; there&#8217;s always more &#8212; but that was the piece I <em>had<\/em> to write. And there&#8217;s a boatload of other things I want to work on, learn, or read, so I&#8217;m tempted to keep &#8216;net access off today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">~<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Oh, the baby gulls who live on the chimney across the street can fly! I was wondering if they could yet, because they&#8217;re not little grey fluffballs anymore; they&#8217;re full-sized gulls, just mottled and mud-puddle coloured.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I also wondered if once they&#8217;d flown the nest if they would go back there &#8212; if birds retain a &#8220;home&#8221; &#8212; or if they&#8217;d go off somewhere else. For now, it looks like the neighbour&#8217;s chimney-pot is still home.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">The gulls in Wick are a gang that rules the rooftops. When they see things happening down below, they all get excited at once, and that excitement is translated into screeches. I bet if I live here for a while those sounds will start to make sense. They don&#8217;t have a lot of &#8217;em, and they&#8217;re all pretty noticeable!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1211\/the-twitch-response0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last few days, I&#8217;ve been finding that the constant twitch-muscle-type effect of constant information flow is making my brain feel restless, worried, and unable to focus on all the things I&#8217;m excited about working on. This morning, the fella&#8217;s alarm went off, making its loveable sound like someone pressing a Dremel tool to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}