{"id":143,"date":"2012-12-18T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=143"},"modified":"2012-12-18T03:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:51:16","slug":"living-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2012\/12\/18\/living-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the Real World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the real world is proving to be a challenge.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve come back to a business that has about a third of the customer base that I had when I went in.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put a great deal of effort into trying to bring this into the modern era but in the last eight months I&#8217;ve only managed to hold it steady, no real growth in spite of covering the phones, greatly expanding the shell service, upgrading a lot of the infrastructure, including file servers, DNS servers, and web servers.<\/p>\n<p>I really would like to get some solid sense of community back like we had in the distant past but nothing seems to be working.\u00a0 I&#8217;m open to suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>The experience I had in Shelton, sometimes that seems to fade when everything is going wrong, collectors are harassing me and I don&#8217;t have the funds to pay them, or I&#8217;m stressing on whether or not I&#8217;m going to be able to keep things going, and can&#8217;t afford to get out of here once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>At times I just feel incredibly tired, yet sleep doesn&#8217;t come easy.\u00a0 If some visible results for the effort I&#8217;ve made thus far were present, it would be easier to press on, but sometimes it&#8217;s not easy to see much results.<\/p>\n<p>Romans 8:28 tells us that all things work together for the good of those who love God, to those who are called according to his purposes, but that&#8217;s hard to see sometimes looking forward, easier in retrospect but not so easy looking forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in the real world is proving to be a challenge.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve come back to a business that has about a third of the customer base that I had when I went in.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve put a great deal of effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2012\/12\/18\/living-in-the-real-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}