{"id":557,"date":"2005-05-16T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=557"},"modified":"2005-12-10T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T21:17:22","slug":"in-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/in-the-saddle","title":{"rendered":"In the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoops! No sooner do I get my new domain-name and reconstitute the blogs than I go underground again! Thanks so much for the well-wishes. The moment I sent out that e-mail last week, I thought, “You just used a teaser about your engagement in an e-mail to drive traffic to the new blog. You geek.”<\/p>\n

It was a busy weekend; sorry for the lack of updates. Saturday morning was spent looking over wedding sites, figuring out possible dates, making preliminary lists and checking them twice, etc. The afternoon was spent dumping the contents of a psychiatric office into a dumpster. Harder work than it might appear. Sunday was more of the wedding stuff, less of the psychiatric office stuff, but I was pretty tired by the time I got home last night, and didn’t get to writing.<\/p>\n

I promise to get back to more frequent blogging. I think I’m going to write up a great Mad Mix<\/a> tonight, after I get home from my evening stint of getting Dad’s ass onto the treadmill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other thing keeping me away from blogging has been my year-long effort to read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time<\/a>. I was afraid to mention it early on, because I didn’t know if I’d have the dedication to read the whole thing. I read the first two books–Swann’s Way<\/a> and Within a Budding Grove<\/a>–in college, but never read the other five. At my birthday, I thought, “Hmm: 34 years old is just about middle-age, so why don’t I get started on Proust?” Sure, I could’ve<\/em> bought a Corvette or something, but hey.<\/p>\n

So I’m starting over. I’m nearly done with the fourth book now, Sodom and Gomorrah. There are “only” three books left, and they’re actually on the short side: 500 pages each (if you haven’t read these before, trust me: 500 pages feels like a walk in the park). Since the end of January, I’ve been reading at least 15 pages a night; if I skip a day, then I make it up the next day. It’s an insanely rewarding series of books, and the discipline involved in sticking with it has helped me a bunch, too.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I bring it up because there was a pretty neat passage about marriage in the part that I read last night. Idiot that I am, I forgot to bring the book with me to work today. I’ll transcribe it tonight and post that, too, along with whatever ruminations I manage to put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoops! No sooner do I get my new domain-name and reconstitute the blogs than I go underground again! Thanks so much for the well-wishes. The moment I sent out that e-mail last week, I thought, “You just used a teaser about your engagement in an e-mail to drive traffic to the new blog. You geek.” … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “In the saddle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-8Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1142,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mail-call","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":0},"title":"Mail call","author":"Gil","date":"October 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the neat things about extended business trips is the gigantic pile of mail that awaits upon your arrival. I spent most of yesterday's work-day going through mail, magazines, faxes, and the 154 pertinent e-mails from the week out of the office. It was laborious, but I was glad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wedding"","block_context":{"text":"Wedding","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/wedding"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":876,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/always-with-the-pictures","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":1},"title":"Always with the pictures","author":"Gil","date":"March 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just downloaded the pix from my digital camera! Snaps from our stay in Healdsburg, CA (near Sonoma) We drove through Monterey and the 17-Mile Drive in Pebble Beach. Then we spent two nights in Big Sur. I'll write all about it soon. We're still cleaning up the house, getting food-shopping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "California"","block_context":{"text":"California","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/california"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":884,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-official","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":2},"title":"It’s official","author":"Gil","date":"March 24, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Our marriage certificate arrived in today's mail! We're no longer living in sin! Amy's now Mrs. Roth! Way to go into the weekend! (During which time we have to go back to our jeweler in the city, since he had to resize my too-tight wedding ring.) We also got the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wedding"","block_context":{"text":"Wedding","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/wedding"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":870,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/movies","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":3},"title":"Movies!","author":"Gil","date":"March 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"My brother and one of our guests shot a bunch of short video-clips of the wedding! I've just uploaded the prewedding stuff. Most of them are around 1.5mb; none are larger than 2.9mb. Enjoy! (you might wanna do the \"Save as Download\" thing to get yerself a local copy of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Wedding"","block_context":{"text":"Wedding","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/wedding"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1822,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/dishing-and-swishing","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":4},"title":"Dishing and swishing","author":"Gil","date":"December 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In my office, the men take out the mail, and the women clean the kitchen. No, seriously. Everybody's got 1-week rotations of one of those duties, and it's split by gender. I guess it's because guys are able to carry more mail-crates down to their cars and over to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "suburbs"","block_context":{"text":"suburbs","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/suburbs"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1120,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-party-like-its-5767","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: party like it’s 5767","author":"Gil","date":"September 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy Jewish New Year, dear readers! In honor of Rosh Hashanah, this week's Unrequired Reading features a bunch of Jewish-connected links and others that have nothing to do with Judaism. First, we have Michael Totten's interview with Yaacov Lozowick, author of Right To Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}