{"id":641,"date":"2011-09-09T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:50:01","slug":"concentration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"Concentration."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/mOw3MIynarMHtyPeB10u8A?feat=directlink\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-u9x-ac_NZNA\/S-CgNvhahUI\/AAAAAAAACl0\/BA4-TogI5eM\/s512\/2010-05-01%25252019.22.07.jpg\" alt=\"Thinking needs foods.\" width=\"230\" height=\"307\" align=\"right\"><\/a>After work yesterday, my brain did its best to crawl out of my sinuses.&nbsp; I swallowed some naproxen sodium (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aleve\">Wikipedia<\/a>!) just in time to prevent it from becoming an all-out migraine fest.&nbsp; I still had the disorientation and the sensitivity to light and sound, but the pain remained dull throughout the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n<p>This made concentrating difficult.&nbsp; It also explains why I was having such difficulty concentrating from about noon on.&nbsp; Paying more attention to headache-related patterns is starting to show clues that I have an incoming brain buster.&nbsp; And, really, I should follow my wife&#8217;s advice and just bring some headache meds to work.&nbsp; Better to take them when the clues start than the actual headache.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my mind feels clear and open and alert.&nbsp; This bodes well for concentration.<\/p>\n<p>I have chosen a goal on which to focus.&nbsp; I never quite finished purging unneeded possessions through eBay and Craigslist and Amazon.&nbsp; Each successful auction and advertisement gives me a bit of instant gratification in the accomplishment department.&nbsp; As an added benefit, I seem to be pretty good at it, because people keep giving me their stuff to get rid of.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that by refusing to take any more things from friends, I can put a finite end on the project.&nbsp; I have decided that I will aid my fellow concentrator, pictured here, in his execution of the same task.&nbsp; So, let&#8217;s see if I&#8217;ve still got the overachiever mojo that I used to take so much pride in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After work yesterday, my brain did its best to crawl out of my sinuses.&nbsp; I swallowed some naproxen sodium (thanks Wikipedia!) just in time to prevent it from becoming an all-out migraine fest.&nbsp; I still had the disorientation and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-al","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7973,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/7973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}