{"id":386,"date":"2007-10-08T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/costume-wiring\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:46:00","slug":"costume-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/costume-wiring\/","title":{"rendered":"costume, wiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a few stores looking for an item for my costume and finally ended up at a Halloween USA.  This is one of those seasonal places and while the selection wasn&#8217;t as good as I expected, I still found something that will work.<\/p>\n<p>Paying for my purchase, though, was a little tricky.  The cashier rang it up as $2.37 instead of the correct price of $24.37   &#8211; ummmm, oops?   So, the manager needed to come over and void it out, then re-run it.   Took a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I was in Wal-mart and bought some speaker wire and a case of water.   I picked the &#8220;10 items or less&#8221; lane &#8211; thinking it would be faster.   Especially since there was only one person in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Mistake.   Her purchases came to $5.64 &#8211; she tossed a $5 on the counter and spent the next 5 minutes rooting through her duffel-bag sized purse for the exact change.   Meanwhile, I&#8217;m standing behind her holding a case of water and wondering if she&#8217;ll ever be done.  At one point, I started to shift my weight to see if I could get to my wallet and throw a dollar into the mix &#8211; since it would have been worth it to get moving.<\/p>\n<p>She finally counted out the last penny and moved on.   I paid with a debit card.<\/p>\n<p>Also over the weekend, my room-mate (who&#8217;s working on a case of bronchitis) decided to get a new receiver and dvd player\/recorder.  He spent several hours on the set-up with a lot of swearing and finally got it working &#8211; except that the video from the dvd player wouldn&#8217;t get to the tv. <\/p>\n<p>I tried a few combinations, then unplugged everything and started over.  Took a little bit until I gave up on the instructions and just winged it.   The DVD player has a weird sleep mode, but once we got past that, we were good to go.   I&#8217;m going to try and tackle the speakers this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Also had a request to fix an antique fan that some friends of mine own.   Not really my area of expertise, but I do know how to take things apart and poke at them &#8211; and then usually put them back together.   I stopped by their place, but they weren&#8217;t home.  I&#8217;ll try again today, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s it for now, time to get to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-437131384588567192?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a few stores looking for an item for my costume and finally ended up at a Halloween USA. This is one of those seasonal places and while the selection wasn&#8217;t as good as I expected, I still found something that will work. Paying for my purchase, though, was a little tricky. The [&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-386","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\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}