{"id":573891774,"date":"2019-11-20T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T03:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573891774"},"modified":"2019-11-23T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:56:36","slug":"this-was-right-until-it-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/this-was-right-until-it-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"This was right, until it was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start with this &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That tracks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RUdaQZJ7W4\">pic.twitter.com\/RUdaQZJ7W4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennysmith\/status\/1197017835341582336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but that&#8217;s not exactly accurate. I did get to play with power tools today. I mentioned <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/remember-the-old-saw\/\">on Monday<\/a> that I was close to wrapping up this one project with a whole series of jokes about how I&#8217;m not good at working with wood. Measure twice, cut once, sand away your shortcomings. That sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Only the belt sander probably caused as many problems as it created. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I realized, a quick bit of sawing would solve all of my troubles &#8212; and boy don&#8217;t we always say that. I did that. <\/p>\n<p>So there <em>was<\/em> fun to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, you see, I had the choice of breaking out the miter saw or running a quick shopping errand. It was my job to pick up two frames for some fancy certificates my television gang has received. Only there wasn&#8217;t enough time tonight. <\/p>\n<p>We had just the one car between us today, because The Yankee&#8217;s car is in the shop. It isn&#8217;t a terrible inconvenience. We work at the same place, of course, and our schedules matched up nicely today. It&#8217;s really an issue of what you&#8217;re accustomed to. You&#8217;re used to being independent, but now you must depend on someone in the simple matter of getting from A to B. And, in this case, you must depend on me. And you must depend on people leaving my office at quitting time, so that we may all, you know, quit for the day. <\/p>\n<p>We left late, which changed up the evening. If I stopped off at C, that would throw off dinner plans, and <em>that<\/em> would keep me from making sawdust, which I wanted to do. And I did! Now I just have to glue it all up, later this week, and then stain and finish the thing this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll try to take care of that shopping errand in the morning. Of course, first-thing shopping is a wholly different experience than late-in-the-day shopping.<\/p>\n<p>There will be more fun tomorrow, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to start with this &#8230; That tracks. pic.twitter.com\/RUdaQZJ7W4 &mdash; Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) November 20, 2019 &#8230; but that&#8217;s not exactly accurate. I did get to play with power tools today. I mentioned on Monday that I was close to wrapping up this one project with a whole series of jokes about how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573891774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wednesday","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573891774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573891775,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573891774\/revisions\/573891775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573891774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573891774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573891774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}