{"id":299,"date":"2020-07-18T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/?p=299"},"modified":"2020-07-18T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T10:47:03","slug":"saturday-july-18th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/2020\/07\/18\/saturday-july-18th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, July 18th, 2020 –"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, July 18th, 2020 —> +13\u02daC \/ +55\u02daF & Overcast @ 6:51 am in Atlantic Canada on what would have been my cousin, Gary’s, birthday – Also Cheryl W.’s birthday – \ud83d\ude42 –<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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– Evelynn, “Don’t look at me – I can’t levitate lamp-posts and Customs Houses-“<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

— Evelynn is Nikki’s latest builder-avatar – { she’s incredibly cute and when viewed in a ‘gaming’ monitor her red hair is amazing. Here she looks a bit anemic } – and she was on a mission – to see how many areas were having obvious problems right around here – since we managed to fix a major problem with the area where ‘Aerendel City’ will be.<\/p>\n

— Almost all the areas connected to the City have gone wonky – land masses hav gone down, buildings stay where they used to be – And the weird thing is, if you walk { more like ‘Run’ } you builder-avatar one way, there is no problem at all, but if you run him or her another way – there are definite problems. – Jumping – ( Or flying ) from Aerendel City to ‘Highland Forest’ = no problem. – Running around on the ‘ground’ from Aerendel City – down through the Birken Hills, through Birkenport – across into Daelen, and up through ‘AerWest04’ & ‘AerWest02’ and into the Highland Forest —> Birkenport’s buildings, docks, —> everything – is a couple feet off the ground. Daelen’s about a meter higher than it was an hour ago, but ‘Evelynn’ assured us that she used her ‘cunning’ to climb on a rock and jump onto the higher ground at Daelen. The Border between AerWest04 & 02 was only half-unglued – but the hills between the City and the Forest had not only slid several yards { or meters } north – but dropped a couple yards { or meters } down, too.<\/p>\n

— Remind me – we have to send the miners down to find a lot of missing rocks that we used to hide the weird looking 2 dimensional edges of the ‘river’ we turned up on an angle to simulate a waterfall.<\/p>\n

— Earlier this week I was ‘swearing my fool head off’ – using words I managed never to resort to for something like thirty years — { shhh – don’t tell anybody how old I might be –\u00a0 }\u00a0 But lately I’m laughing. If I still have my sense of humor – hey, that’s a good thing – I remember reading Carlos Castenada – “Your sense of humor is the first thing to go -”\u00a0 { Heavy sigh and smile at the sky – }<\/p>\n

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– My sister, Diane, year unknown, in mom’s kitchen during renovations… –<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

— Meanwhile – Along with all the catastrophes in the game world we’re building – I decided I probably needed to move things around in my ‘office’ here – I woke up from a dream and while I was half asleep, half awake I saw myself looking happier while working on stuff and writing my novels etc, if things in here were in a different configuration and I could actually get up and turn around without knocking anything over or stubbing my toe and needing to hop to the washroom to find the band-aids…<\/p>\n

—- In the process of moving stuff out of the office and into the room we were getting ready to fill with a couple desks and printer stands – since Cathi has officially been told to go ahead and ‘create’ herself a home office since they don’t want all their people back in the building until the Covid-19 thing is enough of a nasty memory that they could safely move into ‘phase 3’ of their ‘recovery plan’… — um, while moving stuff around, feeling like my life was one of those silly little plastic puzzles where you have to slide the little square pieces around in a highly imaginative way to get it right? –\u00a0 Duh — in the process of moving stuff around – I opened a couple boxes that were in the closet in here under other boxes — and found some interesting photographs I’d forgotten about, like this Polaroid of my sister Diane, probably from the late 60’s or early 70’s – when I was probably either still in the Navy or trying to eek out a living in Vermont…<\/p>\n

— & – in the interest of not boring you to death, and maybe actually getting a few things done this morning – I should end here, and figure I got a fraction of the things said that I’ve wanted to say to my friends and family for the past couple weeks — and see if I can actually ‘budget’ my time instead of racing full out in seventeen directions at once. …<\/p>\n

–— “Have a good life!” { still can’t believe in wishing anybody one good day at a time… }<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~~~~~ Jim<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, July 18th, 2020 —> +13\u02daC \/ +55\u02daF & Overcast @ 6:51 am in Atlantic Canada on what would have been my cousin, Gary’s, birthday – Also Cheryl W.’s birthday – \ud83d\ude42 – — Evelynn is Nikki’s latest builder-avatar – { she’s incredibly cute and when viewed in a ‘gaming’ \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,10,26,9,19,5,12,4,7,1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-should-be-more-fun","category-life-should-be-more-relaxed","category-schnarr-is-my-favourite-euphemism-lately-especially-if-its-used-to-describe-stinky-slimy-creepy-stuff","category-the-truth-is-within-you","category-understanding-is-a-virtue","category-we-dont-want-to-be-allowed-to-vote-for-someone-elses-agenda-we-want-to-change-the-agenda-germaine-greer","category-creativity","category-how-to-lose-friends-and-annoy-everyone","category-insight","category-uncategorized","category-we-need-more-positive-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lJAn-4P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/awakening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}