{"id":16080,"date":"2026-02-03T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:25:27","slug":"blogathon-03-26-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16080","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 03\/26: Busy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I gave up work, I\u2019ve never been so busy. I\u2019ve tried explaining this oddness to those who care (nobody) and tried explaining it to those who feign to listen to me out of politeness (chiefly, my daughter), but the truth is nobody is interested in how I\u2019m filling my weekday time. Nobody cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I kept a kind of record and although this kind of record stretches over the so recently ended weekend, it\u2019s still a kind of record of how I\u2019ve spent my time. Database stuff, chiefly. With a teeny-weeny bit of (to use a technical term) website front-end fannying about. The database stuff amounts to 43 hours over Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be a little more of the same during the week, but it\u2019s going to be measurable in units of 5 minutes\/day. I had to deploy some custom CSS and a little home-made javascript to make things play nicely together. The database stuff included getting a bunch of CREATE TABLE and SELECT * and INTO commands right, which was fun wrangling the syntax into position. It\u2019s been decades since I last worked with stuff like that. It took a bit of cobweb-blowing to get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, the bottom line is <a href=\"https:\/\/savenottinghamairfield.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/savenottinghamairfield.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the campaign website<\/a> has a new Lifetime Supporter feature (with some safety-rails behind the scenes, to stop jokers from making a contribution of \u00a30.01p or similar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;ll notice that the main thing I do &#8211; writing (of which, more at another time) &#8211; doesn&#8217;t even figure in this bunch of time-related activity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, it\u2019s shift change in the Spaniel house. Chewie has just got down and Mavis is lining up to take his place, so I have to quickly throw another log on the fire before she settles across my knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I gave up work, I\u2019ve never been so busy. I\u2019ve tried explaining this oddness to those who care (nobody) and tried explaining it to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16082,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions\/16082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}