{"id":46070,"date":"2021-11-28T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46070"},"modified":"2021-11-27T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T01:39:57","slug":"personal-update-for-november-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/personal-update-for-november-28-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update for November 28, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all.\u00a0 Yes, it was a good visit.\u00a0 And Virgil returns all greetings.\u00a0 \u00a0 He was, as I predicted, delighted to hear about the &#8220;Muttcracker&#8221; (as well as flabbergasted that Fort Collins has a ballet company!)<\/p>\n<p>Driving out there in the morning was quite peaceful &#8211; almost no one in sight at any point.\u00a0 Coming back, however was something else.\u00a0 I had to leave visitation at around 2 in order to get to the restroom on the way out\u00a0 (I am not starting a 2 hour drive without first stoping there, and that is not negotiable. ) After that, picking up my car key and driver&#8217;s license at the desk, getting through the locked gates, opening th tailgate, putting away my wheelchair including putting a bungee around it to keep it in one place, grabbing my crutch, putting it in the back, getting into the frone, putting the car key back on the ring, using lip balm (it&#8217;s not allowed in there and mine get chapped), getting my ice water and gluten free cookie bar out of the insulated lunchbox, putting a CD in &#8211; it was 2:30 by the time I got out of the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>And going back was not like coming out.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen so much traffic along that entire route.\u00a0 I do realice 2&#8243;30-4:40 pm is prime shopping tme, but it wasn&#8217;t like that two weeks ago.\u00a0 Of course, it also wasn&#8217;t Black Friday weekend two weeks ago.\u00a0 So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>I got home safely, but kind of znked.<\/p>\n<p>So my advice to you is to read today&#8217;s Erinyes and the other tings in the email, if you haven&#8217;t already.\u00a0 And I will get full posts ready for tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>I did already have a TC cartooon picked out for today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1128Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1128Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1128Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But not an FFT.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all.\u00a0 Yes, it was a good visit.\u00a0 And Virgil returns all greetings.\u00a0 \u00a0 He was, as I predicted, delighted to hear about the &#8220;Muttcracker&#8221; (as well as flabbergasted that Fort Collins has a ballet company!) Driving out there in the morning was quite peaceful &#8211; almost no one in sight at any point.\u00a0 Coming <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/28\/personal-update-for-november-28-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3811],"class_list":["post-46070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}