{"id":45956,"date":"2025-01-05T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=45956"},"modified":"2025-01-12T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T18:50:45","slug":"bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/bittersweet\/","title":{"rendered":"bittersweet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I know we are well into the year and I\u2019m late posting but I just didn\u2019t want to tech.  I was savoring my last moments of freedom before I\u2019m forced before the computer for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s back to work tomorrow after 7 weeks off.  Boo Hoo.   While I so appreciate my job, it\u2019s been wonderful living on my own schedule.  I\u2019ve had a taste of retirement and I want more!  Yes, I still have a few more pieces of the puzzle to place before I can do so, but if I need to continue to work, at least I have a great job.  I\u2019m very appreciative of the people I work with and the opportunity to live in Paradise and work from home.   After commuting in the SF Bay Area for so long, I give my thanks daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"12\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bannerpurplepink.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44843\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bannerpurplepink.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bannerpurplepink-300x4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bannerpurplepink-768x9.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/bannerpurplepink-940x12.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While the New Year turn is still viewable over our shoulders, let me share this last bit from the holidays &#8211; the New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations across the globe.  How fun it must be in space to see Earth explode with color and light!  For the earth bound of us, we have this. China really did a good job with the drones.  I hope the drone shows become the future standard.  There are so many things wrong with fireworks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Highlights from New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations across the world\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQ_xRSQICus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China celebrating the new year with an incredible drone show #newyear #china #drone #dronevideo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUXFwwscme0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sphere las Vegas - New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h3qSt_Ds-AE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Blessings for Us All in 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner-1-1024x36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3453\"\/><\/figure>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we are well into the year and I\u2019m late posting but I just didn\u2019t want to tech. I was savoring my last moments of freedom before I\u2019m forced before the computer for hours. It\u2019s back to work tomorrow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/05\/bittersweet\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,206,32],"tags":[191,2433,257,2432,2434],"class_list":["post-45956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countries","category-holidays","category-society","tag-celebrations","tag-fireworks","tag-new-years-eve","tag-new-years-2025","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}