So, it’s been quite a year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Around inauguration time, I had a job that I\u00a0really\u00a0<\/em>enjoyed, with a few side hustles – a band, my show, and this blog (not that I’ve made any money from it in a long time – partly by choice).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In February, I got laid off.\u00a0 As part of my scrambling to keep my bills covered, I signed on at\u00a0Hot Air<\/em> – where I write 3-5 posts a week, and make a little money.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Then came July.\u00a0 I started the month unemployed – and ended with a day job (details not needed) and another longer-term bet with a startup.\u00a0 \u00a0Plus another band (more info to come later).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n So I’m cranking out 12 hours a day – and generally loving it.\u00a0 But it’s taken time away from the time I’d normally spend tinkering with the blog (which hasn’t been much in a while).\u00a0<\/p>\n “So Merg – why not go over to Substack?”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I might.\u00a0 There’s a part of me that can’t imagine anyone paying anything to read what I write, but who knows?\u00a0 It’d certainly cut down on the maintenance woes that are increasingly dogging WordPress.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n A 23 year old habit, rapidly pushing 24, is hard to change.\u00a0 And let’s be honest, I’m kind of a stubborn guy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n But yeah, this fall when we get our first cold rainy non-outdoor weekend I may just pull the trigger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Hey, Merg – why haven’t you gone over to Substack?”<\/p>\n I’ll tell you why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89894,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89893\/revisions\/89894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}