{"id":2944,"date":"2014-01-31T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2014-01-31T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T21:42:31","slug":"wishes-and-fishes-at-sea-01252014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"Wishes and Fishes \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [01\/25\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anya-Books\"<\/a>Honestly, me and technology really are getting to have a love hate relationship. The more we work on things, the more complicated they seem to become. I am so<\/i> far from a techie that it\u2019s not even funny, I mean yes I know the basics, and as long as I stick to what I know I can make computers do what I want them to do \u2013 but honestly I\u2019m a luddite. I\u2019m someone who would prefer a real encyclopedia set to a virtual one and I mistrust everything other than the most basic editing programs.<\/p>\n

And yet, suddenly all these people seem to be depending on me to know all this stuff and I simply don\u2019t<\/i> have an answer for them. I mean, ask me anything book related and hey I\u2019m your girl \u2013 you want to get into a debate about the relative merits of the social settings of Charles Dickens\u2019 depiction of England vrs the more modern ideal of Sara Waters\u2019 take on the same era? Hey, sit down over a cup of tea and I\u2019ll shoot the moon with you on something like that. You want recommendations on which mystery author is hot this year? Bring it. Which romance author you want to avoid? Definitely<\/i> the answer to that one is always going to be Shades of Grey<\/i> (the so called \u2018trilogy\u2019 that is. If you want to read an amazing book by the same title go for Jasper Fforde\u2019s Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron<\/i> which is a totally engrossing, slightly fantastical, look at a future that isn\u2019t really all that far off the mark if we\u2019re not careful \u2013 no matter how far-fetched it may seem at the time.)<\/p>\n

Or if you really want to see me light up, let me start talking about the subject of my non-existant-but-I-will-get-to-it-one day Art History Masters, I can discuss that until your eyes glaze over and you won\u2019t be sure whether it\u2019s from fascination or pure overload.<\/p>\n

But\u2026<\/p>\n

Ask me how to fix your iPad? How to make type out the equivalent of a word document on a Samsung android? \u00a0I\u2019ll look at you like a deer in the headlights. I mean I can do it<\/i>. But it\u2019s hardly my forte.<\/p>\n

And yet, here I am.<\/p>\n

Feeling like I\u2019m swimming upstream with only the tadpole level of lessons in how to survive in the water\u2026<\/p>\n

Someone wanna throw me a life ring? Someone? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly, me and technology really are getting to have a love hate relationship. The more we work on things, the more complicated they seem to become. I am so far from a techie that it\u2019s not even funny, I mean … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-world-voyage-2014"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-Lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}