{"id":3802,"date":"2018-10-23T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:55:18","slug":"so-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/so-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"So, ok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at work but I\u2019m waiting for some video to upload and it\u2019s been cranking away for kind of a long time while I worked on some slides for tomorrow\u2019s class &#8211; and with the way all Apple products, like Keynote that I was using for my slides &#8211; are all backing up to iCloud all the time, I\u2019m sure my working was slowing down the upload.<\/p>\n<p>So seemed like a good excuse to sit at my desk for a few minutes and start a blog post. Logged into Word Press responsive view on my iPhone which is currently working better than the WP app, which stopped updating, mysteriously. some time back. Like I couldn\u2019t see my newest posts in the app. Annoying, but not as annoying as my poor little Notes app which just slams closed as soon as I try to open it. I think it\u2019s another iCloud backup problem &#8211; like Notes doesn\u2019t know where my notes are, on my phone or in iCloud, and\/or iOS 12 incompatibility. If it\u2019s still not working on the weekend I\u2019ll go to the Apple Store.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m having a bit of buyers&#8217; remorse on this big new iPhone 8 Plus I just got.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3804\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3804\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/notes-1024x910.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/notes-1024x910.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/notes-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/notes-506x450.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/notes.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See, if I go into the app store to look for an update, Apple even asserts I can open Notes from there &#8211; but no, slams shut. Grrrr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And huh, look at this &#8211; I&#8217;m not such blogging deadbeat as I thought. I started this post last week, and never finished. <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/CSB3o6\">The Burning Girl<\/a> has to be returned to the library tomorrow, and I have to quick get two holds before they expire, Ordinary People (2018 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/09\/09\/645307406\/ordinary-people-learn-what-happens-to-marriage-in-midlife\">heard the author interviewed on NPR<\/a>, not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/EQfpjE\">Judith Guest&#8217;s<\/a> 1976 book of the same title) and <a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2Njbwaq\">Kate Atkinson&#8217;s<\/a> Case histories. I&#8217;m waiting for her newer book, <a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2NGnJqM\">Transcription<\/a>, but I&#8217;m 167 in line (and oh, look, Jennifer Egan wrote the review, and she also just did a WWII era novel. I still like <a href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/2y3ttzD\">Goon Squad<\/a> best of hers, I suggested it for <a href=\"https:\/\/gobigread.wisc.edu\/\">Go Big Read<\/a>, although I also still like the first book of hers I read, <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/xM4eZi\">The Keep<\/a>). Rach has read both Atkinson&#8217;s, and recommends.<\/p>\n<h3>Growing up<\/h3>\n<p>I just read this in <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/SiwgFP\">a book<\/a>, and it could&#8217;ve been my own words, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/my-me-too-story\/\">about forty years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/burningGtext.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/burningGtext.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/burningGtext-150x71.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, back to work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at work but I\u2019m waiting for some video to upload and it\u2019s been cranking away for kind of a long time while I worked on some slides for tomorrow\u2019s class &#8211; and with the way all Apple products, like Keynote that I was using for my slides &#8211; are all backing up to iCloud &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/so-ok\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[204,23,205],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-3802","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-books","10":"post_tag-memory","11":"post_tag-reading"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}