{"id":1071,"date":"2012-03-16T00:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-03-16T00:55:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:55:30","slug":"springtime-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/springtime-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"springtime, finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got off work yesterday, I was too pumped by the sunshine to go back indoors and swim. \u00a0Instead, I went home, changed clothes, and opened all the windows. \u00a0I cranked up the music and just relaxed for a while. \u00a0After I had some dinner, I called my friend and asked if he wanted some company walking his dogs. \u00a0He said he would and I walked over to his place and we took his two puppies for a walk. \u00a0Or rather, the dogs attempted to drag us around the neighborhood. \u00a0I had a nice time, then walked back home in the dark. \u00a0It was such a nice evening I almost hated to go back inside.<\/p>\n<p>When it was time for my shower, I opened the door to the bathroom that leads out onto the roof. \u00a0I had the hall light on, but the bathroom light off &#8211; so, it&#8217;s unlikely that anyone could see me. \u00a0Not that I really cared, it was too nice to be cooped up, even for my shower. \u00a0I slept with the windows open and was grateful that springtime was finally here.<\/p>\n<p>It was raining this morning when I got up, but that didn&#8217;t really dampen my spirits. \u00a0No, that didn&#8217;t happen until I was actually at work. \u00a0I had a nasty bit of paperwork to fill out that took most of my morning. \u00a0I very nearly ran out of bullshit &#8211; and I had always thought I had an\u00a0inexhaustible\u00a0supply. \u00a0I got through it, worked on several other projects, and even kept our student assistant busy. Which can be tough to do since he&#8217;s really fast with our various websites.<\/p>\n<p>I swam after work &#8211; 30 laps &#8211; then Jeff&#8217;s sister started blowing up my phone. \u00a0She left two messages while I was swimming and then called again once I was done. \u00a0No new information and nearly\u00a0unintelligible\u00a0on the messages. She used to call Jeff all the time &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping she&#8217;s not going to try and transfer that to me. \u00a0Especially when she&#8217;s been drinking. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty patient when it&#8217;s important, but I&#8217;ve also got some pretty serious limits.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m meeting with Jeff&#8217;s family on Sunday. \u00a0Bright and early &#8211; which roughly translates to 10, their time. \u00a0Going to be a long day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got off work yesterday, I was too pumped by the sunshine to go back indoors and swim. \u00a0Instead, I went home, changed clothes, and opened all the windows. \u00a0I cranked up the music and just relaxed for a while. \u00a0After I had some dinner, I called my friend and asked if he wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}