{"id":21634,"date":"2020-12-31T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21634"},"modified":"2020-12-31T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:47:33","slug":"this-year-kinda-sucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21634","title":{"rendered":"This year kinda sucked&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with everything that has happened this year, I thought I should do a recap of the lost year in my life&#8230;as I&#8217;ve talked about before, this year was to be my &#8220;living in the city&#8221; year where I&#8217;d get to do city things as I rehabbed this house&#8230;and I was really looking forward to seeing blues on the mall since it only a 10 minute bike ride to get there from here&#8230;and get to be a regular at the Triangle bar that is two blocks away and enjoy some time on the various outdoor decks that bars have set up around GR&#8230;but no, stupid trump and his cronies took all that away from me&#8230;.and it even screwed up the housing market so it looks like I&#8217;ll be back in an apartment after I have to leave here in a couple of months&#8230;and all because they couldn&#8217;t be bothered to do their jobs at the start of the pandemic. One thing that was a little easier for me than for most people was all of the alone time as we have all had trying to stay healthy&#8230;I&#8217;ve always been good with being alone and I never feel lonely even with months of forced isolation&#8230;but the one thing with having to be alone is I haven&#8217;t been able to see my new grandson as much as I would want&#8230;only two times since he was born in the end of August and that is just not enough&#8230;.and I have a granddaughter on the way in January that I won&#8217;t be able to see until the vaccine is available&#8230;one good thing about having to be home so much is I&#8217;m not spending much money and have been able to build up a big enough cash cushion that I can afford any emergency and put 40K down on a house when I can find one&#8230;but damn, I would have loved to be able to spend some of it having fun&#8230;I mean, how many more years do I have left for that kind of stuff? So, to waste a year out of maybe ten I have left really sucks&#8230;.but, I am going to make up for some of that next year with the England trip with my daughter and son in law&#8230;and if I can find a house soon, I will be able to put down my last permanent roots and get that stress off my head&#8230;it will be nice to just live and putter around at the pace that I want&#8230;.and not have to worry about dying just going out to get groceries&#8230;so yep, this year sucked but trump will be gone in 21 days and maybe we can start to get back to a sane normal again&#8230;at least we can hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with everything that has happened this year, I thought I should do a recap of the lost year in my life&#8230;as I&#8217;ve talked about before, this year was to be my &#8220;living in the city&#8221; year where I&#8217;d get to do city things as I rehabbed this house&#8230;and I was really looking forward to seeing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=21634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This year kinda sucked&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-21634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21635,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634\/revisions\/21635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}