{"id":656,"date":"2011-09-20T22:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-09-20T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T02:35:53","slug":"lots-of-big-things-on-the-horizon-and-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2011\/lots-of-big-things-on-the-horizon-and-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of big things on the horizon, and New Toy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the slow pace of things here lately. (It seems like I&#8217;ve been saying trhat a lot here lately&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made some changes to my lifestyle, and as a result, I have a lot less free time than I used to.  On top of that, I&#8217;ve had a lot of really big, exciting stuff come up, and I&#8217;ve been doing a lot more freelance work than usual.  (Thats right, I paint, and I shoot photos and videos, I have lots of creative outlets, because every time I practice one, I get better at the others. Seems like I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of everything these days.  Who knows, I just might record an album some day!<\/p>\n<p>As a result of everything that has popped up, the blog suffers.  I&#8217;m sorry, dear reader, but when it comes down to it, I&#8217;d rather be making cool stuff than writing about how I was wishing that I was making cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: I&#8217;m going to be doing some big things in the near future, so I&#8217;ll have some new experiences to write about!<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I can tell you about now is that I&#8217;m spending a lot more time in public transit than I used to.  Far too much time.  For upwards of seven hours a week, I&#8217;m stuck on a bus.  That&#8217;s a lot of wasted time. I don&#8217;t like wasting time. Fortunately for me, I&#8217;m travelling on off-peek hours, meaning I always get a seat.  After a few weeks of this, I decided to bite the bullet, and spend money on something not directly art-related: a shiny new netbook.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of the little guy.  Ain&#8217;t she adorable?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/images\/misc\/asus1015px.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m currently stuck on a bus, typing away, and being ever so thankful to asus for still putting matte screens in their netbooks.  If this were one of the far more common glossy-screened laptops, the glare from the sun would make writting in my current situation impossible.  But here I am, typing away, making use of what would otherwise be wasted time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;d better get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the slow pace of things here lately. (It seems like I&#8217;ve been saying trhat a lot here lately&#8230;) I&#8217;ve made some changes to my lifestyle, and as a result, I have a lot less free time than I used to. On top of that, I&#8217;ve had a lot of really big, exciting stuff &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2011\/lots-of-big-things-on-the-horizon-and-new-toy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lots of big things on the horizon, and New Toy!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[139,27,141,140,85,40,142],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyleswork","category-uncategorized","tag-asus","tag-blog","tag-computers","tag-netbook","tag-new-toy","tag-personal","tag-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}