{"id":15942,"date":"2015-01-01T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:43:39","slug":"first-post-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15942","title":{"rendered":"First Post of 2015!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donna was in bed by 10:00 PM on New Year’s Eve, but Polly and I\u00a0rousted her out just before midnight to see the first snowfall of the winter. It was still coming down a minute later, making it\u00a0the first snowfall of 2015 as well. We heard a few gunshots mixed in with the firecrackers, also a helicopter flying low overhead … presumably the police looking for muzzle flashes. Not sure what it is about firing guns into the night sky, but it’s a New Year’s tradition around here. Fallujah on the San Juan River, that’s us.
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\nOur dogs aren’t bothered by fireworks or gunfire, but I always hear from Tucson friends who have to comfort theirs on New Year’s Eve. Poor things.<\/p>\n

Well, I got up this morning determined to make a fresh start. I wiped down the\u00a0office desk, cleaned out the browser caches, deleted trash and junk email, and rebooted the iPhone, iPad, and iMac.<\/p>\n

I’m not big on resolutions, but I’ll go this far: I resolve to walk the dogs every day. I’ve been a horrible slacker in that department, and the dogs and I are too fat as a result. I fell behind on visits to the gym during Thanksgiving week and the first part of December, but over the last two weeks have been getting back into the groove. Someone compared\u00a0getting on a scale to\u00a0asking Dick Cheney to list\u00a0all the things that are wrong with you, and that’s pretty much how I feel.<\/p>\n

I’m throwing some baggage over the side for 2015. No more throwback Thursday photos on Facebook, for one. So 2014! I’ve been posting on Tumblr and Ello, but it’s been like talking into a dead phone … zero interaction with other users, never a comment, nothing.\u00a0Twitter, Daily Kos, Facebook, and the comment section of my blogs are, by contrast, quite lively. My friends are\u00a0on the other end of the phone, and we’re having\u00a0a conversation.\u00a0So I’ll continue tweeting, Facebooking, and blogging in 2015, but leave\u00a0Tumblr and Ello to the Tumblrites and Elloians.<\/p>\n

I had a lot of fun with the\u00a0Donkey Hote<\/a> account on Twitter, searching for and retweeting\u00a0illiterate posts, photos of misspelled signs, screen caps of\u00a0garbled Fox News chyrons, and eggcorns in the rough. Lately, though, finding\u00a0new stuff has become a chore, so I’ve\u00a0decided to throttle\u00a0back. If I stumble\u00a0across something new, genuinely appalling, and funny, then game on. But my\u00a0daily blast of tweets? Done for now.<\/p>\n

So what’s on for today, the first day of the new year? Donna and Polly are going to sew, at least until the football games start. While they watch the games I’ll be smoking ribs and sausages, which we’ll have later with baked beans and corn on the cob.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna was in bed by 10:00 PM on New Year’s Eve, but Polly and I\u00a0rousted her out just before midnight to see the first snowfall of the winter. It was still coming down a minute later, making it\u00a0the first snowfall of 2015 as well. We heard a few gunshots mixed in with the firecrackers, also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,555,2,827],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-critters","category-local-color","category-personal","category-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15946,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}