{"id":201,"date":"2006-01-02T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/back-from-the-holidays\/"},"modified":"2006-01-02T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T15:50:00","slug":"back-from-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/back-from-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"back from the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds almost like a destination &#8211; and I guess I did a bit of traveling.  Here&#8217;s the recap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Friday before last, headed down to visit my folks.   I stopped off at my sister&#8217;s new office &#8211; a cube farm like mine, but far less oppressive.  And she&#8217;s got a window too.    We were supposed to meet mom and dad for lunch after they picked up the christmas ham &#8211; but they got lost and were delayed.  There&#8217;s some debate on who&#8217;s fault it is &#8211; and it&#8217;s better if we just leave that undefined.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas with the folks was good &#8211; got some cool stuff and had fun.  We did brave Walmart the day before christmas, which was scary &#8211; but otherwise good.<\/p>\n<p>After christmas, we loaded up and headed to visit the rest of my extended family.  My grandmother&#8217;s house was pretty well full once we had all gotten there and we got a little loud.   My dad entertained the crew with magic tricks and we all had fun.  <\/p>\n<p>Also visited some of my mom&#8217;s family &#8211; my cousin just recently had a baby girl who&#8217;s just amazingly cute.  Her eyes are this amazing blue &#8211; and wider then they could pull off in Village of the Dammed.   It was a good thing, trust me.<\/p>\n<p>My sister and I headed back on wednesday &#8211; she had to work.   We were all pretty well scattered for New Year&#8217;s &#8211; I spent most of it watching movies  &#8211; and saw a little of the Dick Clark special.<\/p>\n<p>A few comments:<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Seacrest got Dick Clark&#8217;s name wrong near the end &#8211; on national television.  <\/p>\n<p>Mariah Carrey was at her most sluttly.   And she totally lip-synced.  Whatever happened to the ultra-high-note Mariah we all loved?  <\/p>\n<p>Dick Clark&#8230; you know, I read somewhere that people were applauding his courage.  I feel for the guy, but it was uncomfortable to watch him.  Just my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m back to work&#8230;though I&#8217;m not really sure how to proceed.   I got a lot of things wrapped up before the holidays and the boss is off today.  Still, we never really slow down here&#8230;so I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve got something waiting for me in my email.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now&#8230;later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-113621811024473211?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds almost like a destination &#8211; and I guess I did a bit of traveling. Here&#8217;s the recap&#8230; Friday before last, headed down to visit my folks. I stopped off at my sister&#8217;s new office &#8211; a cube farm like mine, but far less oppressive. And she&#8217;s got a window too. We were supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-201","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\/201","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}