A perfect Friday: sunny skies, warmer than 30 degrees Fahrenheit. (This is one word that I say more than spell, so that first H tricked me. I then spent a few minutes on the Wikipedia entry for the measurement and the man who defined it. Of course there\u2019s only one question any sane person would then have: has an ancestor or distant relative had their surname used in a similar way? Alas, I am a brand. But it\u2019s a British brand, and who pays attention to those?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m looking out the window at downtown Lowell and it\u2019s a bluish gray sky over us. It\u2019s been like that all day. It\u2019s the kind of weather that lends itself to melancholy. As the unseen sun sets this afternoon, I\u2019m impatiently waiting for it to become night. If I can only see clouds, it might as well just be dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s the habitual instinct to give up that has haunted me for years. If things aren\u2019t currently good, they might as well be bad. Why bother trying to improve anything? It\u2019s all just gonna be dark eventually. But that\u2019s the foolish hobgoblin of little minds, one that forgets the central tenet of existence: this is what the moment currently is. Comparisons to prior moments and desires for a different future are troublesome when they\u2019re made as a sort of time travel. Better for us to be here now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh no \u2013 wait. That\u2019s the third album from Britpop legends Oasis. Then again, I bet you can\u2019t name a single song off that record. Definitely Maybe<\/em> and (What\u2019s the Story) Morning Glory?<\/em> are the ones with the hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maybe I shouldn\u2019t have mentioned that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n -Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A perfect Friday: sunny skies, warmer than 30 degrees Fahrenheit. (This is one word that I say more than spell, so that first H tricked me. I then spent a few minutes on the Wikipedia entry for the measurement and the man who defined it. Of course there\u2019s only one question any sane person would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinpoints.community\/hey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}