{"id":1679,"date":"2024-10-30T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"absentminded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"ABSENTMINDED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was a bonehead today and invited extra stress into my life.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the day was going so well.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend Chris drove down last night from Fort Wayne &#8211; a nearly 3 hour trip. His mission was to demonstrate the SmartBox to my business networking group this morning at our 7:00 am meeting today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We left the house right on time, I threw my computer bag in his back seat and we drove to the Moose Lodge downtown.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting was fantastic. There was much interest in the SmartBox and we got a thousand dollar donation toward the $8,000 we are trying to raise to take one to Ghana with us in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the meeting Chris and I made a quick stop at home so I could grab my van to follow him up to another appointment in Indy. I had to drive myself since Chris would be continuing on home up north after we finished.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THAT meeting was also fantastic and raised even more funds toward our goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris and I then had lunch and conversation before I drove the hour back home.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn&#8217;t until I pulled into my drive that I remembered my computer bag was still in Chris&#8217;s backseat, now 2 hours north of me and speeding on to Fort Wayne!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I am typing this on my phone while I go through laptop withdrawal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is bad. I have never been separated from my computer over night. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The frustrating thing is that I didn&#8217;t even need my computer today &#8211; I am just in the habit of taking it with me when I leave the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bonehead today and invited extra stress into my life. And the day was going so well. My friend Chris drove down last night from Fort Wayne &#8211; a nearly 3 hour trip. His mission was to demonstrate the SmartBox to my business networking group this morning at our 7:00 am meeting today.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}