{"id":15559,"date":"2009-10-09T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2009\/10\/09\/up-dated\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:43","slug":"up-dated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2009\/10\/09\/up-dated\/","title":{"rendered":"Up-dated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\">I was carrying around a calendar I&#8217;d printed out as part of my &#8220;get back to paper&#8221; scheme, but it was too big to fit in my pocket. I knew it would take some work to create a smaller alternative, so I kept putting it off. Last night, I finally did it, and I&#8217;m really happy with the result.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"linked-to-original\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_2xN2oN7iEQw\/Ss8VGqU_NUI\/AAAAAAAACFQ\/yGj-Ibc9qXY\/s800\/calendar1-full.jpg.webp\" class=\"image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1148\/up-dated0.jpg.webp\" height=\"284\" width=\"379\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/a>It&#8217;s silly to spend an hour making a book like this when I could buy a pocket diary anywhere for \u00a31 or less, but that&#8217;s not the point. This calendar is truly <em>mine<\/em>. Picking it up makes me happy, and as a result I feel compelled to use it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I&#8217;m even tentatively entering some events in shorthand &#8212; which I seem to have developed a mania for. But it&#8217;s hard to find time to practice properly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">I love my job and the people I work with, but I could make really good use of a paid sabbatical right about now. I would: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"clear:both\">\n<li>Write the two novels I have in mind.<\/li>\n<li>Learn all the shorthand &#8220;brief forms&#8221; and the proper way to form the strokes.<\/li>\n<li>Do some painting.<\/li>\n<li>Teach a DIY Book course that would give participants a finished copy of their book, along with the skills to make as many more as they like, a string of ISBNs for their titles, and an e-commerce-capable website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">&#8230;And probably a lot of other stuff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">This is probably touchy territory, but <em>I would like maternity leave<\/em>. There are seven billion of us on the planet and a resources crisis imminent, so I&#8217;d like to have paid time off to better myself, as opposed to having a baby.<\/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\/1148\/up-dated1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was carrying around a calendar I&#8217;d printed out as part of my &#8220;get back to paper&#8221; scheme, but it was too big to fit in my pocket. I knew it would take some work to create a smaller alternative, so I kept putting it off. Last night, I finally did it, and I&#8217;m really [&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-15559","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\/15559","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=15559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}