{"id":2125,"date":"2016-11-22T02:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2016-11-22T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T02:24:11","slug":"cold-walk-big-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/22\/cold-walk-big-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"cold walk, big boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday<\/span>, Jim was at the University to print out some photos.\u00a0 This is a time consuming process and since we had planned on meeting up and running errands afterwards, I decided to walk to campus and meet him there.<\/p>\n

It’s about 3 miles and took me about 45 minutes to get there.\u00a0 The trip was uneventful, though I did go past an abandoned warehouse\/factory that no amount of scooby snacks could have convinced me to go in – even in broad daylight.<\/p>\n

When I got to the art school, I found the print lab and walked in – and it was so unexpected that Jim didn’t recognize me for a moment.\u00a0 I went and got some hot chocolate at starbucks and then came back and played a game on my phone until he was ready to go.<\/p>\n

I think that may have been my last long walk for a while – winter arrived the next day like it was trying to prove something.<\/p>\n

——————–<\/p>\n

We went to dinner at PizzaFire that evening and while we were waiting for our meals Jim tapped his straw on the counter to remove the wrapper.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m good at a lot of things but there are a few areas where I completely fail. And one of those failure points is removing straw wrappers – I can never get it to work. \u00a0I usually try a few times and then just tear the dang things to shreds trying to get at the straw.<\/p>\n

It’s a minor thing, but for someone who enjoys figuring things out and doing things, it kinda irks me that I can’t get this.<\/p>\n

I can’t knit either.<\/p>\n

This time, though, I paid very close attention to the technique and replicated it exactly – and the straw promptly popped through the wrapper.<\/p>\n

I was so excited I could only point at the straw – speechless.\u00a0 Jim figured out what I was so excited about and congratulated me.<\/p>\n

“You’re a big boy now!” he said and I laughed because I was thinking the same thing.<\/p>\n

Later on as we were walking downtown, I confessed that while eating my pizza I bit my tongue so hard that I started to bleed – and that it was still bleeding.\u00a0 I apologized in advance in case I ended up spitting blood.<\/p>\n

He considered this a moment and then said, “Well, maybe you aren’t such a big boy if you can’t chew your food without biting your tongue”<\/p>\n

In mock outrage, I stopped and turned in the other direction to walk away. I took a couple steps and he stopped me.<\/p>\n

“Stop right there.\u00a0 You aren’t allowed to cross the street by yourself,”<\/p>\n

He’s quick.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, Jim was at the University to print out some photos.\u00a0 This is a time consuming process and since we had planned on meeting up and running errands afterwards, I decided to walk to campus and meet him there. It’s about 3 miles and took me about 45 minutes to get there.\u00a0 The trip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2125","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\/2125","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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}