{"id":2408,"date":"2010-01-02T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2010-01-02T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:28:15","slug":"forward-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/forward-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Kate&#8217;s post, <a href=\"http:\/\/ktbuffy.com\/2010\/01\/in-the-past-year-i\/\"> In the Past Year, I\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saw, for the first time in my life, the person I voted to become President actually become president, capping what was for me an utterly unprecedented level of activity and involvement in the campaign process. I cried like a little girl.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrated my first wedding anniversary.<\/li>\n<li>Actually enjoyed a Ren faire for the first time, thanks to seeing it through the eyes of my wife and my daughter, rather than my own.<\/li>\n<li>Killed a Balrog, and bought a lifetime subscription to a computer game.<\/li>\n<li>Painted the house, and built a pretty cool shelf unit out of an old kitchen table.<\/li>\n<li>Started and <em><strong>maintained<\/strong><\/em> a regular face-to-face gaming schedule. (Biweekly, on Wednesdays, one full year as of January 14th!)<\/li>\n<li>Made some new friends out of old acquaintances.<\/li>\n<li>Finished publisher-requested revisions on Hidden Things; this time adding over 75 pages to the manuscript.<\/li>\n<li>Figured out, for the eighth time or so, what I liked about blogging, and why I wanted to keep doing it.<\/li>\n<li>Figured out, for the seventh time or so, <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\" target=\"_blank\">what to write about<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/the-compiled-nanowrimo-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\">series of posts<\/a> of which I&#8217;m really terribly proud.<\/li>\n<li>Started <a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/category\/podcasts\/\">podcasting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Kept my day job (and actually got a nice bonus).<\/li>\n<li>Made my wife laugh when she wasn&#8217;t expecting to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2010, I want to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Learn CPR<\/li>\n<li>Bake a birthday cake for someone<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to sharpen a knife better<\/li>\n<li>Read fiction every day<\/li>\n<li>Write every day (either fiction or a blog post, at least, but preferably both)<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to mix a vodka gimlet well enough to please my personal preferences<\/li>\n<li>Make a meal for company<\/li>\n<li>Travel light<\/li>\n<li>Be a better listener<\/li>\n<li>Find the light at the end of the tunnel with <em>Hidden Things<\/em> (or, failing that, create my own light)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Bonus: Finish, and finish podcasting, <em>Adrift.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">How about you?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Kate&#8217;s post, In the Past Year, I\u2026 Saw, for the first time in my life, the person I voted to become President actually become president, capping what was for me an utterly unprecedented level of activity and involvement in the campaign process. I cried like a little girl. Celebrated my first wedding anniversary. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/forward-and-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forward and Back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afk","category-untidy-heap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}