{"id":1222,"date":"2017-02-17T11:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:59:43","slug":"trying-not-to-jinx-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2017\/02\/trying-not-to-jinx-february","title":{"rendered":"trying not to jinx february"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/32667488972\/in\/album-72157680178995665\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1223\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o-1024x660.jpg\" alt=\"immer  grafitti on the side of a brick wall in Toronto Ontario\" width=\"700\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o-1024x660.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o-700x451.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/32667488972_8820315b5e_o.jpg 1718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m exceptionally lucky in that I&#8217;m not too affected by the shorter days. I mean&#8230; I require more coffee, want to stay in pajamas longer, and probably sleep more, but I don&#8217;t wind up with SAD and am generally able to get out of bed with good humor most days. However I post less frequently to my blog in the winter both because I&#8217;m a little more low-functioning generally and also because I don&#8217;t want to say &#8220;Hey things are great!&#8221; and then jinx something. I am aware that this is superstitious so I figured I&#8217;d come clean about it. Things really have been okay and February is more than half over.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My trips to Florida and Toronto went just fine even if it was a bit too much travel for me (<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/tilty\/this-is-what-librarian-resistance-looks-like-3e44c1012831#.d7cw7e21q\">wrap-up on my newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157680178995665\">photos here<\/a>)\n<li>I had a fly-by trip to Cambridge which went really well and got to spend some time with Jim. We found <a href=\"http:\/\/cambridge.wickedlocal.com\/article\/20141014\/News\/141018428\">a new favorite lunch place<\/a> where if you show up right before closing they give you all the leftover hash browns!\n<li>I kept to my writing deadline and submitted an article for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotoday.com\/cilmag\/\">Computers in Libraries magazine<\/a> about some ways libraries could be using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plex_(software)\">Plex<\/a> a sort of Netflix front end for digital content. As part of that, I learned new software which is basically the librarian version of doing Sudoko to keep your brain limber.\n<li>I&#8217;ll be going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/computersinlibraries.infotoday.com\/2017\/\">CiL Conference in DC<\/a> (actually Virginia), running a panel on small\/rural library directors and giving a cybertour on mailing list software. Not glamorous work, but worthwhile and very enjoyable.\n<li>I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/164904\/He-just-died-thats-all\">a MetaFilter post about a dead groundhog<\/a> which is perfect.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Big things coming up include a visit from Kate, a trip down to Westport where we&#8217;re going to donate some of my dad&#8217;s old tools to the local vocational school here, and doing some more Wikipedia work for Black History Month. The usual, keep on swimming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2017\/02\/trying-not-to-jinx-february\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to trying not to jinx february\"><p>I&#8217;m exceptionally lucky in that I&#8217;m not too affected by the shorter days. I mean&#8230; I require more coffee, want to stay in pajamas longer, and probably sleep more, but I don&#8217;t wind up with SAD and am generally able to get out of bed with good humor most days. However I post less frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[597,83,4],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-february","tag-jessamyn","tag-me","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}