Sometimes, I take a deep breath and hold it in for a moment.<\/p>\n
just lean back, close my eyes and while I think<\/p>\n
listen to the room, to the house, to the world outside<\/p>\n
server slowly churning away, waiting for the mean time failure<\/p>\n
in the other room, the dog, breathing, licking, whining, sleeping<\/p>\n
the weight of the house on top of me, its age, its grace<\/p>\n
no cars outside, and maybe\u2026<\/p>\n
Then, the AC kicks in, the light flicker and I let my breath out. That moment was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes, I take a deep breath and hold it in for a moment. just lean back, close my eyes and while I think listen to the room, to the house, to the world outside server slowly churning away, waiting for the mean time failure in the other room, the dog, breathing, licking, whining, sleeping the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AdCf-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/173","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":0},"title":"microfiction 0002","author":"lm3m","date":"2011.05.26 at 01:30 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"Out of a single, ultra-dense, singularity crawled what would become the universe. Would it, had it been able to see all that lay ahead, have continued down the path to creation? Had it known that instead of being filled with brilliant moment after brilliant moment; glorious moments when fruit attacked\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":691,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/691","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":1},"title":"Entry for Terrible Minds Random Words Writing Challenge","author":"lm3m","date":"2012.08.31 at 09:26 AM","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry for the Terrible Minds Random Word Writing Challenge\u00a0this week. My first entry to one of these. The two characters are from a novel I am working on, and this was a nice chance to play with them. And, so they don't distract too much, I put the words\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Prompts"","block_context":{"text":"Prompts","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/category\/prompts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/98","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":2},"title":"Microfiction 0001","author":"lm3m","date":"2011.01.11 at 05:24 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"As the dust settled, Poe pulled herself up on one hand, and wiped off a trickle of blood moving from her mouth to her chin with the other. \u201cWhat is it with you anyway? First off the name, Lunacy. Give me a clue here. What are you going for? \u2018I\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":727,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/727","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":3},"title":"Write Now","author":"lm3m","date":"2012.09.11 at 10:49 AM","format":false,"excerpt":"I am always deeply\u00a0dissatisfied with my life, and I am OK with this. It gets me out of bed in the morning. I would find it hard to get myself going if everything was perfect. There would be nothing to do. Jack:\u00a0 You\u2019re quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. Gwendolen: Oh! I\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":167,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/167","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":4},"title":"strange, strange world","author":"lm3m","date":"2011.05.25 at 04:57 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"Had I been in NYC this would have been, interesting. Margret Atwood and DJ Spooky on the same venue. http:\/\/vanuatu-atwood-tannatalks.eventbrite.com\/ --- I have a love affair with urban decay. I love seeing what happens to man's creations when they are abandoned and left to decay. So, needless to say, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"abandoned-wonders-of-sssr1-1297943852","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-wonders-of-sssr1-1297943852.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40020,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/40020","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":5},"title":"Brushing off the dust, this thing on?","author":"lm3m","date":"2022.04.21 at 02:08 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"Inspired to update this thing by a number of post about different reasons to start blogging again. Kind of a chance to show my work, on what ever I am working on. \u201cWorking with the garage door up\u201d one post called it. Which is really a great idea. So, here\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "blog"","block_context":{"text":"blog","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/category\/blog"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}