{"id":9112,"date":"2026-11-06T18:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2026-11-05T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T01:13:44","slug":"twenty-twenty-six-day-three-one-oh-getting-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/twenty-twenty-six-day-three-one-oh-getting-ahead-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"[twenty twenty six day three one oh]: getting ahead of the game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"795\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-600x795.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9113\" style=\"width:714px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-600x795.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-300x397.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-768x1017.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-1160x1536.png 1160w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM-640x848.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-8.08.25-PM.png 1424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying some of that &#8220;working ahead&#8221; which seems to work so well for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevinandkell.com\/\">Bill Holbrook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cad-comic.com\/\">Tim Buckley<\/a> and &#8230; me, for <a href=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/tag\/drawing-every-day\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"260\">drawing every day<\/a>, or buying soda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating a buffer really saved my bacon on DED this year. My two-month buffer has been whittled down to weeks, but I think I&#8217;m still on track to finish out the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And as you might guess, I rarely run out of soda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictured: the coal room of a caffeine-powered software developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying some of that &#8220;working ahead&#8221; which seems to work so well for Bill Holbrook and Tim Buckley and &#8230; me, for drawing every day, or buying soda. Creating a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}