{"id":13488,"date":"2023-11-11T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=13488"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T17:54:59","slug":"sometimes-i-just-cant-seem-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/11\/sometimes-i-just-cant-seem-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I just can&#8217;t seem to win."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was just trying to write what I was thinking in Word, I got distracted by Word itself because I wanted to paste unformatted text into the document.<\/p>\n<p>You know like when you don\u2019t know how to spell \u201cUyghurs\u201d and you grab it from an article on the web and paste it into your Word document. Only to have the rest of the word document suddenly reformat itself to match the bold underline 24 point font style of the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">single<\/span><\/strong> word you pasted.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, good job Microsoft! That makes a whole lot of sense!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then of course Jesse starts pitching a fit outside and now I have distractions and annoyances 3 levels deep and I\u2019ve forgotten what the fuck I was thinking or typing which compounds the annoyance. Now we\u2019re at 4 levels deep and this is just a Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>But I begin to see how it is that I can\u2019t write worth shit during the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just a normal weekday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flood Control grinding, digging, banging, and rumbling up and down the wash.<br \/>\u2028Jesse (Who needs attention and deserves it)\u2028<br \/>The crazy bitch screaming whatever she\u2019s screaming.\u2028<br \/>My internal frustration at not being able to put on paper what I really mean<br \/>\u2028Fighting with software that thinks it\u2019s being helpful but is not\u2028<br \/>Being naturally easily distracted\u2028<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I wait until evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesse (Who needs attention and deserves it)\u2028<br \/>The crazy bitch screaming whatever she\u2019s screaming.<br \/>My internal frustration at not being able to put on paper what I really mean\u2028<br \/>Fighting with software that thinks it\u2019s being helpful but is not\u2028<br \/>Being naturally easily distracted\u2028<br \/>My mother calling and telling me that they\u2019re going to be home in a day or two. When I know a) she\u2019s sitting in her recliner at her home. b) she somehow thinks that I\u2019m in Florida when I\u2019ve lived in California for the past 44 years, and therefore wouldn\u2019t know or care if they were in fact out of town. c) She asks if everything is okay and I don\u2019t want to repeat myself about my troubles. So I lie to her because I just don\u2019t fucking want to get into it. She wouldn\u2019t in the past, and now couldn\u2019t help anyway.\u2028<br \/>The Crazy Bitches boyfriend, cutting and grinding metal or banging on god knows what or \u201cWorking\u201d on an engine in the long string of vehicles he destroys by working on their engines.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that trying to write during the day is the better option.<\/p>\n<p>However so much for me being able to just write something quick in Word to dash off to the County.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was just trying to write what I was thinking in Word, I got distracted by Word itself because I wanted to paste unformatted text into the document. You know like when you don\u2019t know how to spell \u201cUyghurs\u201d and you grab it from an article on the web and paste it into your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/11\/11\/sometimes-i-just-cant-seem-to-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes I just can&#8217;t seem to win.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,71,306,87],"tags":[171,307,181],"class_list":["post-13488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyances","category-fail","category-frustration","category-musings","tag-annoyances","tag-frustration","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13489,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions\/13489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}