{"id":5765,"date":"2024-01-16T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2024-03-05T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T05:04:38","slug":"tinsel-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/tinsel-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinsel Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new year is off to a start.\u00a0\u00a0Everything is going okay I guess.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m getting things done and having some fun, but everything feels very slow and tiring.\u00a0\u00a0This is natural because it&#8217;s the wintertime, and there\u2019s still lots of cold and dark.\u00a0\u00a0The days are starting to get longer, but there&#8217;s been lots of rainstorms and wintry mix.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;ve finally stared to get some snow.\u00a0\u00a0First time last week, but it all melted after a few days, and now last night into today.\u00a0\u00a0Hoping we can finally go skiing this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;ve been going ice skating as a local alternative, a good way to move the body when you can&#8217;t do much outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working out has been actually been going well.&nbsp;&nbsp;Often it can be really tough in the winter, but I&#8217;ve add weight to my workout at the start of the year, and so far so good.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;ll probably put on a few more pounds again soon.&nbsp;&nbsp;Meanwhile I&#8217;ve dropped some body weight, which is also counter to the usual wintertime trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course winter break is over and it&#8217;s been back to work the last couple weeks, so getting anything else done requires planning around that to have a few hours of focus time on the weekend or at night.&nbsp;&nbsp;Just as I was getting into the rhythm of being able to do what I want when I feel like it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m trying to migrate my web site to a new host, but there&#8217;s just a ton of picky details to attend to.&nbsp;&nbsp;We wanted to get this done by the new year but had to let is slide.&nbsp;&nbsp;Next sub-project is migrating my blog.&nbsp;&nbsp;So soon you may be reading this at a new url, at least temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I finished my new song Head Downtown.&nbsp;&nbsp;More on that in another post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This last weekend we had a sort of make-up xmas, since Jeannie was down with Covid on Xmas day.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lots of good food, games, more legos, music and movies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mary and Lou came over along with the niblings.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the Bills are in the playoffs, which is pretty exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is off to a start.\u00a0\u00a0Everything is going okay I guess.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m getting things done and having some fun, but everything feels very slow and tiring.\u00a0\u00a0This is natural because it&#8217;s the wintertime, and there\u2019s still lots of cold and dark.\u00a0\u00a0The days are starting to get longer, but there&#8217;s been lots of rainstorms and wintry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/tinsel-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tinsel Town&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}