Today was both really productive and really enjoyable. I am sure that a lot of that was due to waking up this morning and thinking about the disaster that didn’t<\/i> happen yesterday.<\/p>\n
It feels as though a giant hand from above has pointed at me and said “I’m going to give you a chance here — make the most of it.” Respecting those wishes (you do not<\/i> want to cross a giant hand from above), I have indeed done just that.<\/p>\n
If I could just bottle this feeling of “things almost went really really badly, but they didn’t”, and use it to power each day, I might become both the happiest and most productive person I know. Unfortunately, I realize that after a while such states of mind begin to fade back into the ordinary.<\/p>\n
Oh well. I am going to enjoy this feeling as long as it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today was both really productive and really enjoyable. I am sure that a lot of that was due to waking up this morning and thinking about the disaster that didn’t happen yesterday. It feels as though a giant hand from above has pointed at me and said “I’m going to give you a chance here … Continue reading “The day after sheer dumb luck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25786,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25785\/revisions\/25786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}