{"id":178,"date":"2026-02-05T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:37:42","slug":"booting-up-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/05\/booting-up-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Booting Up the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title is actually what I need to do today. My brain does not want to power up and its operating system does not want to load. I know the large part of the inertia is coming from simply not wanting to make the trek into a job that I detest with a work environment I loathe even more. What I do have control over is what I can do before work to lift up my spirits. I know I am a little excited over the book planning that I am doing so once the old brain is fully powered up, to work I go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am also hoping that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfsdelaware.org\">Jewish Family Services of Delaware<\/a> gets back to me. I am not religious in the least but their mental health program comes very highly rated from people of all walks life. At this point, I need high quality talk therapy as I am not getting better on medications alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this morning, I want to settle on a system for writing. Since I don&#8217;t use Windows (or Mac) at home, I have to find an app stack that works well. I think I will just end up using LibreOffice Writer. While it is not quite the ideal tool, I can make it work well. At least yesterday, I managed to settle on a good working title for my book, <em>Boostrapping Your Own Internet: A Step-by-Step Journey Through Linux and BSD Networking Labs.<\/em> Maybe I will have it in me to create a rough table of contents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who knows? Maybe I can end up picking up a publisher and this thing could go completely legitimate. It would make my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title is actually what I need to do today. My brain does not want to power up and its operating system does not want to load. I know the large part of the inertia is coming from simply not wanting to make the trek into a job that I detest with a work environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}