{"id":5657,"date":"2010-03-06T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2016-05-16T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:14:01","slug":"5657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5657","title":{"rendered":"The Common Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.&#8221; &#8211; R. Buckminster Fuller<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of our common experience today.\u00a0 Both of my computers have gone mute.\u00a0 The Gateway, on which I&#8217;m writing my novel and doing art history research, I don&#8217;t mind.\u00a0 This one, though, on which I listen to music from Folk Alley, Skype with the grandkids and watch videos on many websites, well, I do mind.<\/p>\n<p>I spent several hours today under the hood of this device, trying this, trying that.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 My main speaker doesn&#8217;t show any electricity getting to it, but I&#8217;ve checked all the connections.\u00a0 Frak, as they would say on Galactica.\u00a0 Part way Geek but not far enough.\u00a0 But enough about my common experience, Bucky.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a run of weather that has not suggested much in the way of commentary for my weatherblog on the Star-Trib weatherwatcher site.\u00a0 High pressure has kept us stable and reasonably warm.\u00a0 Not a bad thing, even, perhaps, a good thing, since evaporation without rapid melting reduces the chance of flooding in the Red River Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Kate has got her sewing machine humming, churning out princess regalia for the soon-to-be 4 queen in waiting of Pontiac Street.\u00a0 She bought 4, 4, tiara&#8217;s for Ruth today.\u00a0 A couple of cute outfits for the Gabester&#8217;s 2nd birthday, they&#8217;re both April babies, and a new shower head completed her longest shopping excursion since her back surgery.\u00a0 She&#8217;s feeling a lot better, more stamina.\u00a0 More sass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Wild Moon &#8220;The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.&#8221; &#8211; R. Buckminster Fuller I&#8217;ve had a lot of our common experience today.\u00a0 Both of my computers have gone mute.\u00a0 The Gateway, on which I&#8217;m writing my novel and doing art history research, I don&#8217;t mind.\u00a0 This one, though, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Common Experience<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,23,3],"tags":[474,111,2266],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-geekworld","category-weather-climate","tag-computers","tag-kate","tag-weather-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/41569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}