{"id":147,"date":"2010-10-30T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-10-30T13:18:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T21:18:05","slug":"the-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"The Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

How perfectly appropriate that this site was dead in the water for the months of July, August, September and most of October, since this was the time when I was finishing up the brutal seven month stint of attempting to work 3000 miles from where I lived, and commuting across the country on a weekly basis, or as much as I could, to hold the family and my life more or less together.\u00a0 At that time I was about as alive as the site was, and it was only this evening when I turned my attention to it, only to find it pretty much gone.\u00a0 I did manage to get it back, though, after wrestling with the WordPress version and various file permissions.<\/p>\n

And how ephemeral our web presences are.\u00a0 If I typed “Owen Scott” into a browser, this site would actually come up first, sometimes, and always on the first page. Now, of course, it’s gone completely from their various databases.\u00a0 This happened with House of Pilates<\/a> a couple of times, but on a much smaller scale, since that site was down for just a few days, and the listing on Google and elsewhere popped back to it’s spot within a week or so of being back, but being gone for months … probably a transgression that is unforgivable.\u00a0 Which is probably just as well.<\/p>\n

I wish I could say that I myself were back to where I would like to be, although I am still clearly in recovery mode.\u00a0 I have noticed that when describing the narrative of the last eight months or so, if I substitute the word “work” with “heroin” or “crack”, the sentences make the same sense.\u00a0 I am, however, a binge-worker in recovery.\u00a0 I suppose I need to learn a little about addiction to try to find a healthier relationship with work.\u00a0 Right now I am having a very difficult time finding the energy that drove me to work like I did — and that is not the kind of energy I should be finding, since it clearly is not healthy, no matter how productive it is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I do have news — though no time at the moment to write it up … will do so in the next post…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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