{"id":5517,"date":"2018-03-16T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2018-03-13T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:52:48","slug":"double-double-toil-and-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/double-double-toil-and-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Double Toil and Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>You know how much fun it is to set up a new computer? Well, multiply that by two and you&#8217;ll get an idea of how last weekend was for us.<\/p>\n<p>Our old computers were still running fairly well, but they&#8217;re eight years old and we were concerned about them suddenly dying on us. To avoid being computer-less and bereft we splurged on replacements and spent several days loading files and updating programs and creating a new backup and all that awesome technical stuff. It was almost too exciting. Even Kent, who is a big ol&#8217; nerd, was getting sick of all the techno-funtimes. We&#8217;re still catching our breath.<\/p>\n<p>But now that we&#8217;ve come out the other side, we&#8217;re quite pleased. The new machines are faster, and since we&#8217;ve hooked the old ones up as secondary monitors we have acres of screen space. It&#8217;s quite something to behold.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade process derailed our writing progress temporarily, but we&#8217;re now back up and running. Both Son and Grandson of Science Novel have passed 110,000 words, which feels pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Having a writing partner might mean doubling your computer budget, but it also means doubling your successes and having someone to celebrate them with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how much fun it is to set up a new computer? Well, multiply that by two and you&#8217;ll get an idea of how last weekend was for us. Our old computers were still running fairly well, but they&#8217;re eight years old and we were concerned about them suddenly dying on us. To avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,326],"tags":[430,418],"class_list":["post-5517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-grandson-of-science-novel","tag-son-of-science-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5517\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}