{"id":573893986,"date":"2022-01-18T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573893986"},"modified":"2023-05-13T01:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:37:18","slug":"to-the-four-day-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/01\/18\/to-the-four-day-week\/","title":{"rendered":"To the four-day week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best part about a three-day weekend is that it also means a four day work week. Good thing, too. Given how things have started today, this week will feel like it will last eight days.<\/p>\n

To sum up: At least Tuesday is done. Twenty-five percent of the work week behind me. Just 175 percent left to go.<\/p>\n

Phoebe knows how I feel. <\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

She had a nice opportunity for a suntan this weekend, and she enjoyed the early morning rays in the living room.<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

Poseidon, we might have mentioned, has recently discovered the joys of the space heater. And I mean this spoiled cat has really discovered space heaters.<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

To be fair, I put the blanket on the ground for him. Not so much that he’d have a blanket, but because he’s guaranteed to lay on it, and that might, hopefully, help him make the connection between the tall white thing and the hot air blowing out of it.<\/p>\n

He is, as you might imagine, appreciative.<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

And a few quick scenes from indoor bike riding. Here’s that volcano I’ve been riding up and around and through. <\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n

I think I might have done all I can do on that course. I’d like to find another minute somewhere on the route. Two rides ago I took about 30 seconds off my bet time up the volcano. Which means that, on this last ride, I really<\/em> had to push to get a few seconds off my next PR. But I did. And on this last ride I had my best time to, and up, the volcano. I worked so hard that I was 20 seconds off my pace for my best descent down the volcano. I was so tired I slowed down on the downhill part! But even if I can put those things together, I’d still be looking for 40 more seconds, somewhere. So, now, I’m making mind bets. If I could just somehow go a little harder for five extra seconds every mile … <\/p>\n

And I’ll try that after I let my legs rest for a day or two. That always seems to serve me well.<\/p>\n

There’s another mountain in the background of that same course. This digital mountain, as you can tell, causes digital weather.<\/p>\n

<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best part about a three-day weekend is that it also means a four day work week. Good thing, too. Given how things have started today, this week will feel like it will last eight days. To sum up: At least Tuesday is done. Twenty-five percent of the work week behind me. Just 175 percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573893986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893986","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=573893986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573895740,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573893986\/revisions\/573895740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573893986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573893986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573893986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}