{"id":177,"date":"2023-04-04T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/?p=177"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:00:18","slug":"winding-wandering-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"winding wandering ways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello. Consider this a short update of my life. A lot has changed; a lot hasn&#8217;t. Let&#8217;s start with what hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am still at my same employer, in the same city, and living in the same place. That means much of my day-to-day is still exactly how I described it in my last post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the week, I wake up and get to work. Then, around 8am, I make myself a pot of coffee. This is usually polished off around 10:30am. As soon as the clock strikes noon, I eat lunch. I&#8217;ll admit lunch changes. It really depends on what I grabbed at the grocery store the last time. Regardless, once that&#8217;s done it&#8217;s back to work. After I call it a day at work, I&#8217;ll try and play with Mackey (my cat), play the banjo, or go to the gym to continue rock climbing. Dinner is usually going out to eat. I&#8217;ve learned I&#8217;m not a great cook. Then video games with friends for a few hours. I like to read before I head to bed, so that once I&#8217;ve had my fill of words, I drift off to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve had a few major changes that, while they don&#8217;t change anything above, they have made my life feel wildly different. The biggest thing for me is that I got a promotion and a raise. I now finally make enough that I can put money into savings. I&#8217;m very excited about it. My new title is &#8220;Associate DevOps Engineer.&#8221; Absolutely wild that I have the word &#8220;engineer&#8221; in my job title despite me having a degree in film. Due to the raise, I was able to replace my car. Vivian was a good car, but after that post it had so many other problems selling it was the best option. I purchased a 2016 BMW 320i. It has been a solid car so far, but it&#8217;s only been a month. Time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2255-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, I have been happier with my life. It is heading in a direction that, while unexpected, I&#8217;m not opposed to. My biggest fear, interestingly, is that I will produce less creative works as I get older until I completely cease. I don&#8217;t know what the next day brings and I can only hope the next day brings me closer to my goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. Consider this a short update of my life. A lot has changed; a lot hasn&#8217;t. Let&#8217;s start with what hasn&#8217;t. I am still at my same employer, in the same city, and living in the same place. That means much of my day-to-day is still exactly how I described it in my last post. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,19],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudbrain.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}