{"id":7,"date":"2002-01-21T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2002-01-21T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2002-01-21T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2002-01-21T12:40:53","slug":"back-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Back. For Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even heroes have the right to bleed&#8221; &#8211; <i>Five For Fighting, Superman<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So I usually don&#8217;t use other people&#8217;s quotes in my blog. So I don&#8217;t even use my quotes in my blog consistently. I originally planned to, anyway &#8211; I&#8217;d write a quote, and talk all about it, and the events\/stories that happened that made me coin that quote. My blog was supposed to be like that.<\/p>\n<p>Where have I been? Why haven&#8217;t I blogged? Simple. As of late, I was destressing a different way &#8211; playing computer games, be it Max Payne, Quake 3 Arena Instagib, Counter-Strike, or even the dangerously addictive Spider Solitaire.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d come home with a weird feeling of having not accomplished anything, like something was not right. Nothing was wrong, but I still felt that the air was uncalm. I&#8217;d come back with low self-esteem, with a strong feeling to rant (and <b>blog!<\/b>) but I went for computer games. I forgot about blogging temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>It was a trained reflex. While waiting for my computer to connect to the Internet, I&#8217;d play Spider Solitaire instead of doing something more productive. Whenever I got stuck, or braindead, I&#8217;d load up Hard difficulty and prove once again that that was a lesson in futility. That was not good.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the topic &#8211; me! (Who else?) I&#8217;ve been feeling depressed lately, on and off, over a few SMSes, and over certain incidents. No particular incident was solely responsible for me being down; it was a few totally unrelated incidents coming together in ironic ways to give me a combined message.<\/p>\n<p>Only now I can write about it. Why? My computer is still too slow for the games I want to play. I am seriously considering a major upgrade, once I know precisely what to get.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, having a slow computer (a 486 for 6 years until the end of 1998!) helped me develop my skills as a programmer and debugger.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been online on my home PC for a week. My siblings have screwed the phone bill with their daily Neopet feeding. I don&#8217;t just hate the site because it&#8217;s addictive, I hate it because I may someday have to take part in such a huge-scale project.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh. I <b>just<\/b> took a Spider Solitaire break. I have to dissasociate boredom and slow connections with Windows games.<\/p>\n<p>Drat &#8211; I can&#8217;t even remember what I wanted to type, having spanned this over thunder and a whole day of sleep! Nevermind then, enjoy my latest article, <b><a href=\"mfce.asp\">My First Clubbing Experience<\/a><\/b>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even heroes have the right to bleed&#8221; &#8211; Five For Fighting, Superman So I usually don&#8217;t use other people&#8217;s quotes in my blog. So I don&#8217;t even use my quotes in my blog consistently. I originally planned to, anyway &#8211; I&#8217;d write a quote, and talk all about it, and the events\/stories that happened that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}