{"id":306,"date":"2006-12-06T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/18-mile-soy-sauce-courtesy\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:48:00","slug":"18-mile-soy-sauce-courtesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/18-mile-soy-sauce-courtesy\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/8 mile, soy sauce, courtesy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swam again today.  Still only getting 1\/8 of a mile, but I&#8217;m not as close to death as I had been &#8211; so, progress.<\/p>\n<p>At the student union today I got sushi again, along with fried rice and some juice.   It used to be that soy sauce was distributed in little packets &#8211; which were easy to stow in a pocket for transport.  They&#8217;ve done away with those and switched to the following system:<\/p>\n<p>An old-fashioned squeeze bottle (like for ketchup or mustard &#8211; except clear) filled with soy sauce, along with little plastic containers and appropriately sized lids. <\/p>\n<p>You dispense sauce into said contain, acquire and affix the lid &#8211; and then hope to God that you&#8217;ve got the lid on there securely or you&#8217;ll be wearing the sauce in no time.<\/p>\n<p>I managed, with some difficulty, to get back to my desk without spilling anything &#8211; but it was a windy and harrowing experience.  I was annoyed by this.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of annoying &#8211; what is it with chicks and doors?   I was entering a covered walkway and held the door for the woman behind me.  She thanked me &#8211; then took off in a full-on powerwalking moded.   And as such, she managed to get ahead of me &#8211; even with my height\/long legs and impressive stride that I usually command.  Still, I was only a little behind her when she exited the walk-way &#8211; and she let the door slam in my face with nary a backward glance.<\/p>\n<p>grumble, grumble.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s it for me now&#8230; time to get back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-8288054332670046674?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swam again today. Still only getting 1\/8 of a mile, but I&#8217;m not as close to death as I had been &#8211; so, progress. At the student union today I got sushi again, along with fried rice and some juice. It used to be that soy sauce was distributed in little packets &#8211; which [&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-306","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\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}