{"id":105,"date":"2000-02-23T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-02-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/23\/excuses_excuses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:48:38","slug":"excuses_excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/23\/excuses_excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuses, Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I know I\u2019ve been delinquent<\/strong> with the updates lately, but my latest incarnation as a professional technical writer has been making it very hard for me to come home and type some more. Or at least type anything I have to think about first. I don&#8217;t think I\u2019ve mentioned it to anyone, but for the last two months or so at work I\u2019ve been editing, writing, and typesetting a manual for a pretty elaborate piece of software for publishing directories and yellow pages. It&#8217;s difficult, to say the least, when only part of the package has a GUI, and the GUI it has needs help. The rest of the system tends to skip the &#8220;G&#8221; and often dismiss the the comfort level of the &#8220;U&#8221;. so, at 230 pages and counting, I\u2019m trying to minimize the chaos and actually explain what&#8217;s going on. Of course, I\u2019m trying to learn the damn stuff at the same time, which keeps causing minor delays. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s starting to sap my energy, but at least it keeps me from griping too much about the latest round of unsuccessful attempts to capture the interest of interesting guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I\u2019ve been delinquent with the updates lately, but my latest incarnation as a professional technical writer has been making it very hard for me to come home and type some more. Or at least type anything I have to think about first. I don&#8217;t think I\u2019ve mentioned it to anyone, but for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/02\/23\/excuses_excuses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excuses, Excuses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77379,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/77379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}