{"id":495,"date":"2008-06-19T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/06\/19\/wednesday-night-a-man-who-used-to-like-onions\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T12:18:00","slug":"wednesday-night-a-man-who-used-to-like-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/06\/19\/wednesday-night-a-man-who-used-to-like-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; a man who used to like onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pBlogBody_407221621\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t    Hi friends&#8230; <br \/>   I&#8217;m getting a bit behind.. I had an interesting and busy day..which included a ton of work meetings, a trip to see Marci and Tim F, a great dinner with my friend Jens who&#8217;s visiting from Germany.. and then a full moon hike up to the cliffs with Diane, Gary. Amy. Jane and George.. The moon was a no-show.. but the view and the company were great.  I then came home and started working. I just noticed it was 1AM.. so I&#8217;m going to make this post very short. <br \/>     The one thing I was thinking about today was the many changes I&#8217;ve experienced in my personality as well as my likes and dislikes since Sam&#8217;s passing..  When I actually write this stuff down. I see that the list is getting quite long&#8230;It includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My office and my workspaces (eg.. my lab and other workshop)  used to be perpetually messy.. Now I manage to kep them clean and in order..I even have labels on all the boxes.  I know where everything is..   I&#8217;ve NEVER done that in my life !<\/li>\n<li>I now love long quiet times at home, in car rides and airplane trips. I love times when I&#8217;m doing absolutely nothing.. I could stand that for about 10 minutes before<\/li>\n<li>I used to strike up conversations with anyone I was sitting next to in a meeting or a plane.. Now I don&#8217;t talk to anyone unless someone makes and effort to talk to me. It&#8217;s not shyness.. or unfriendliness.. I still enjoy meeting new people.. I&#8217;m just much happier being by myself<\/li>\n<li>I used to wander the halls at work constantly talking to people.. Now I stay in my office with my door shut if I&#8217;m in the building and not in a meeting. Again.. not unfriendliness.. I&#8217;m just more comfortable in my cave<\/li>\n<li>Similarly I used to spend hours on the phone talking to people for fun.. Now I hate talking on the phone unless I&#8217;ve got something specific to accomplish. <\/li>\n<li>I used to read several books a month&#8230; and watch a movie or two a week.. Now I&#8217;ve read no more than 4 books in the last year and a half.. and watch less than a movie a month.. (I think blogging takes up my reading\/movie time) <\/li>\n<li>My rest heart rate is about 15-20 beats per minute slower than it used to be. I just used to be far more stressed<\/li>\n<li>I used to get 5 hours of sleep a night.. now I need 7<\/li>\n<li>And .. here&#8217;s the most shocking.. I find that  no longer like mushrooms.. cooked garlic.. or cooked onions&#8230;    and&#8230;I always thought of myself as a man who like onions..\n<p>Interesting stuff&#8230; no ? <\/p>\n<p>OK.. I&#8217;ll post pictures tomorrow when  can find my cable. I&#8217;ll end here&#8230; Before I do, I&#8217;d like to share this picture that my friend Jake up the street  took on his porch last week.. I mentioned it a few days ago. This bear was sitting there drinking out of their hummingbird feeder.. So cut.. But.. keep in mind the feeder is probably 5 feet tall and made out of 1\/2 inch steel.   Cute.. but maybe not so cuddly. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/jun1808\/Bearintheyard4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">OK.. all for now.. Gnite all. Gnite Sam<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi friends&#8230; I&#8217;m getting a bit behind.. I had an interesting and busy day..which included a ton of work meetings, a trip to see Marci and Tim F, a great dinner with my friend Jens who&#8217;s visiting from Germany.. and then a full moon hike up to the cliffs with Diane, Gary. Amy. Jane and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/06\/19\/wednesday-night-a-man-who-used-to-like-onions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; a man who used to like onions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}