{"id":477,"date":"2008-07-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/side-game-dolphin\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T13:30:00","slug":"side-game-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/side-game-dolphin\/","title":{"rendered":"side, game, dolphin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting yesterday &#8211; and got a headache.  I&#8217;m not saying that the meeting gave me the headache, but I&#8217;m strongly implying it.  This one centered itself on the sign of my head, on the level with my temple on the left side, but further back.  I put some pressure on the area and rubbed it &#8211; which seemed to help for a bit &#8211; but it came back a little later while I was out trading in some video games.   I managed to get myself home and sat quietly for a little while, hoping it would fade out.   I also took some aspirin, but it ramped up quickly and I had to lay down for a while.  I got up and ate dinner, then just lay around for a while &#8211; then gave up, took a shower, and went to bed early.  I guess I&#8217;m over it, but it was annoying.  Especially since I just bought new games and was eager to play.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time I&#8217;ve gone into GameStop &#8211; and like last time, they tried to pressure me into getting a discount card.   I&#8217;m normally a fan of discount cards &#8211; but not the kind you have to pay for.   In those cases, I always feel pressured to buy more to justify the cost of the card &#8211; which kinda bites.   The sales guy tried a several times to get me to sign up for the card &#8211; and finally pulled a bait and switch on me &#8211; which I fell for based mostly on my headache and a desire to get the heck out of there.  So, now I&#8217;ve got a discount card that I may only use a few times a year, a magazine subscription that I&#8217;ll read but wouldn&#8217;t have chosen, and entry into their mailing list (great).   Still, I got some cool-looking games, so that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>My swim yesterday was pretty average &#8211; I did 32 laps.   There was a girl 2 lanes over, though, that was swimming the butterfly stroke like some kind of mer-person.   She basically exploded out of the water on each stroke and then plunged back at incredible speed.   I was really impressed.  I don&#8217;t know how fast she was, but it would have made a dolphin feel bad.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-8507411853018298446?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a meeting yesterday &#8211; and got a headache. I&#8217;m not saying that the meeting gave me the headache, but I&#8217;m strongly implying it. This one centered itself on the sign of my head, on the level with my temple on the left side, but further back. I put some pressure on the area [&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-477","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\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}