{"id":731,"date":"2010-07-25T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/vacation-the-bad\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T01:35:00","slug":"vacation-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/vacation-the-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"vacation: the bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now for the bad. And I have a surprising amount of bad from this vacation. <\/p>\n

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1. My grandmother passed away. I mean, how much worse could can you get? <\/div>\n
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2. The drive was 10 hours each way. Which is pretty horrific all by itself. Add in my room-mate – who has been going to the same place on vacation for about a thousand years – still not being sure of the route to take. This is with years of experience, a map, and a freaking GPS. Which he argued with for the first 2 hours of the trip back before giving up and letting her guide us. He’s going to be pissed that I wrote this in the blog, but dangit, pick a route and stick to it. He knows how completely insane that indecision makes me because I’ve told him how insane that indecision makes me. <\/div>\n
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3. My room-mate and siblings argued with every single conversation they had. Every single one. I counted and it was all of them. Ugh.<\/div>\n
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4. I got bitch slapped and owned by the waves. I got in my time\/distance, but it was rough. I looked good in my “Daniel Craig as James Bond” Speedos, but I was the ocean’s bitch.<\/div>\n
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5. My room-mate drove the Sea-Doo like an old man. Every time we got up to speed, he’d drop the throttle and we’d slam to a stop. I mean, seriously. <\/div>\n
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6. I had computer problems to fix. My uncle’s were easy to address on windows 7, but I had some vista issues on another machine that I could not surmount. Very frustrating.<\/div>\n
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7. Parking the Sea-Doo involved me getting into the canal and lifting on the machine while my room-mate pulled it onto the mini-dock. I did not smell very fresh afterwards and was quite sore.<\/div>\n
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8. We ate out at the same places we ate out at last year. And the wait on one of those trips? 2 hours. The food? Not worth a 2 hour wait.<\/div>\n
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8. We had plans to go places and do things, but ended up spending much of the time sitting in the sun. I was bored. A lot. And this was a bigger deal than it seems. I was just kinda of hoping for an adventure or two and it was just more of the same.<\/div>\n
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On the bright side, I wasn’t at work. But, sheesh. I know I’m really poor at relaxing, but the lack of fun on this trip was staggering. There’s got to be something more. <\/div>\n
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And just writing this has put me in bad mood. I think I need to go back and read about the fun parts of my trip again.<\/div>\n
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And now for the bad. And I have a surprising amount of bad from this vacation. 1. My grandmother passed away. I mean, how much worse could can you get? 2. The drive was 10 hours each way. Which is pretty horrific all by itself. Add in my room-mate – who has been going to […]<\/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-731","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\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}