{"id":437,"date":"2025-11-22T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.complicatednoise.com\/?p=437"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:10:31","slug":"diminished-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/diminished-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Diminished Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at what the cat dragged in. (That would be me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a long time, hasn&#8217;t it? I have been incredibly busy doing lots of things but they&#8217;re all things that are boring and mundane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I haven&#8217;t really been that social as of late and it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m depressed or sad, it&#8217;s simply because posting my business all the time for strangers to see and podcasting about the most boring-ass shit isn&#8217;t a priority anymore. I&#8217;m a bit happier from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><s><strong>I do have the sad news to report that this is probably all that will be posted here.<\/strong> I just don&#8217;t have any interest in it anymore. I feel like my online life has been fun, but it&#8217;s just time to step away and further fade into obscurity and blend into the shadows.<\/s> <mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">(30 Nov 2025: So apparently, that didn&#8217;t age very well&#8230; read <a href=\"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/a-change-of-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"439\">this<\/a>.)<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve been here for years and popped in to check in on me, thanks. I appreciate it. Honestly, I do. Thanks for the support and care you&#8217;ve given me over the past couple of decades. \ud83d\ude42 I wish you all well and I hope that you have everything in your life that you have always wanted. We may meet again in some time at some unexpected place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until then, thanks again! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at what the cat dragged in. (That would be me.) It&#8217;s been a long time, hasn&#8217;t it? I have been incredibly busy doing lots of things but they&#8217;re all things that are boring and mundane. I haven&#8217;t really been that social as of late and it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m depressed or sad, it&#8217;s simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-life-stuff","category-site-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbeenn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}