{"id":316,"date":"2007-01-17T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/34-driving-work\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T14:11:00","slug":"34-driving-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/17\/34-driving-work\/","title":{"rendered":"34, driving, work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to visit my parents and my sister last weekend for my birthday.   I turned 34 on Saturday &#8211; and people keep asking me if I feel older.  And I don&#8217;t &#8211; but apparently I look older.<\/p>\n<p>The student assistant working with our group and I were talking on Friday and I mentioned I had shaved off my goatee because it was so gray.  He said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t even know how old you are &#8211; 40?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I reacted with shock, he quickly back-peddled and came up with 32.  I told him I&#8217;d be 34 on Saturday.  Then I said, &#8220;40!?!?   You&#8217;re fired!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really fire him and we had a good laugh about it.  He&#8217;s only 19, so I can&#8217;t really fault him for guessing poorly on ages.<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of driving this past weekend and encountered some of the longest patches of fog I&#8217;ve ever seen.  Pretty intense and rather surreal.<\/p>\n<p>Classes started here yesterday and other than more people being around in the student center for lunch, things done feel too different for our group.   I guess parking is even more of an issue this semester, but I get here real early in the morning so it&#8217;s not too bad.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for now, back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-4924091679532734612?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to visit my parents and my sister last weekend for my birthday. I turned 34 on Saturday &#8211; and people keep asking me if I feel older. And I don&#8217;t &#8211; but apparently I look older. The student assistant working with our group and I were talking on Friday and I mentioned I [&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-316","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\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}