{"id":6267,"date":"2012-08-19T19:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2012-08-20T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:42:26","slug":"yeah-it-is-kinda-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/6267","title":{"rendered":"Yeah…It Is Kinda…Wow…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Re-reading that post about what a luxury car is, I am kinda…stunned…to realize that my life went from this…<\/p>\n

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…to this.<\/p>\n

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That is not the trajectory anyone would have predicted for me back when I first entered grade school. \u00a0 It’s not what I would have predicted for me. \u00a0 If I hadn’t been walking through my life in the past decade or so on autopilot I’d be more amazed. \u00a0 But I don’t pay attention to my present day life all that much the way probably other people do. \u00a0 Away from work, back in my house, down in my art room, my head stays in the clouds, because I’m not so lonely there. \u00a0 It’s only occasionally when I’m at home, that I come back down to earth and it’s like…oh…I have a house of my own…and a Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n

At night I dream of other worlds, other lives I might have had, where I’m not alone anymore and I’m happy. \u00a0 Oddly, in those dreams I still don’t own a house, or a Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n

The Chairman said quietly, “Loki, you weary Me” – and suddenly, Loki was missing. Even his chair was gone. “Odin, will you spare her for part of that cycle?”<\/em><\/p>\n

“For how long? She has earned the right to Valhalla.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“An indeterminate time. This creature had stated its willingness to wash dishes “forever” in order to take care of her. One may doubt that it realizes just how long a period, “forever” is… yet its story does show earnestness of purpose…”<\/em><\/p>\n

-Robert Heinlein, Job – A Comedy of Justice<\/em><\/p>\n


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Re-reading that post about what a luxury car is, I am kinda…stunned…to realize that my life went from this… …to this. That is not the trajectory anyone would have predicted for me back when I first entered grade school. \u00a0 It’s not what I would have predicted for me. \u00a0 If I hadn’t been walking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[145,130],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-life","tag-lonelyache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}