{"id":1504,"date":"2026-03-05T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:08:03","slug":"smile-and-grin-at-the-change-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/smile-and-grin-at-the-change-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile and grin at the change all around&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got up early today but had my days mixed up. I thought today was the day that the landscaping guy was coming out to compost our field, but realized I had my days off as today it is raining. If it isn&#8217;t too soggy, he will be here tomorrow and I can check this project off my list &#8211; the rain has been pretty light, so I think it will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I&#8217;m not much of a morning person, I do have to admit that I enjoy mornings like the one today &#8211; cool, misty and hazy, light drizzle &#8211; it is a perfect day for a hot cup of tea and some reading. That didn&#8217;t happen for me today, however, as I was too busy rushing through my morning routine to be ready for their arrival&#8230; not looking at my phone and confirming that it is <em>tomorrow<\/em> they are planning to be here until I was about done with everything. Maybe I&#8217;ll go to bed early tonight (ha!) and get up extra early tomorrow (double-ha!) to be able to enjoy the morning before the landscapers arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eh, it likely won&#8217;t be the same weather so wouldn&#8217;t have the same quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chatting with my wife last night, I have to say, she was right all along. I should never have accepted the nomination to be on the Libertarian party board, or should have resigned the position immediately upon realizing they weren&#8217;t going to take liability seriously. Shelving the notes and spreadsheets for the region meeting I was going to call was cathartic. I no longer have any more obligations to the party (because of the timing, I couldn&#8217;t hold the meeting now anyway) so in 9 more days, I am fully released of any and all obligation to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did get contacted by a few individuals asking me to stay and fight to keep the role and that there is enough meeting prep documentation to show I was still actively fulfilling the duties, but the reality is I never wanted to do any of that anyway. After everything went down yesterday, I felt much better about things. No longer will my wife have to hear me bitch about prepping for the region meeting nor about having to associate with the &#8220;moronic cunts&#8221; in the party. There are a few people I enjoy working with, but I&#8217;ve already spoken to most of them and will still work with them on specific projects as desired. But for now, I&#8217;m just going to be glad that I can stop paying them any attention at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Song of the day: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Won&#8217;t Get Fooled Again<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewho.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The Who<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up early today but had my days mixed up. I thought today was the day that the landscaping guy was coming out to compost our field, but realized I had my days off as today it is raining. If it isn&#8217;t too soggy, he will be here tomorrow and I can check this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cultofdarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}