{"id":34812,"date":"2026-08-02T18:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34812"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:31:32","slug":"okay-im-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34812","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I&#8217;m boring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;okay, I came to the realization today that I&#8217;m boring most days and I&#8217;m not going to apologize for it&#8230;look, if you&#8217;ve lived as many years as I have you just run out of novel things to do or have happen&#8230;like today, yes I got the 2 bike rides in but after that I just screwed around and read&#8230;and what&#8217;s interesting about that? Not much to be honest&#8230;I did see two herds of deer on the rides this morning&#8230;one with 8 deer in it and one with 7&#8230;do those numbers make a herd? Who knows and who decides? If I call it a herd does that make it a herd? To me it does so herd it is&#8230;.I had a flock of starlings hit my yard this afternoon to use the water container I put out for the animals and it was funny to watch them take turns splashing in it&#8230;I&#8217;ll have to remember to fill it tomorrow&#8230;you know how boring my day was? I think trimming my beard was an accomplishment&#8230;what did I have to eat today? Hmmm&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t memorable but I do remember a bowl of potato soup and two eggs and two slices of toast for dinner&#8230;okay, that doesn&#8217;t sound like much but I forgot the bagel with cream cheese I had before I got on the bike&#8230;so that makes it a little over 1K calories for the day&#8230;and yes, I know that&#8217;s not enough but I really can&#8217;t eat more than that&#8230;no popcorn tonight since last night&#8217;s didn&#8217;t taste as good as earlier in the weekend&#8230;okay, need to figure out what the heck to watch tonight&#8230;no more reading&#8230;crap, I still need to do the weight work&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;okay, I came to the realization today that I&#8217;m boring most days and I&#8217;m not going to apologize for it&#8230;look, if you&#8217;ve lived as many years as I have you just run out of novel things to do or have happen&#8230;like today, yes I got the 2 bike rides in but after that I just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Okay, I&#8217;m boring&#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-34812","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\/34812","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=34812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34813,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34812\/revisions\/34813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}