{"id":1095,"date":"2006-12-18T23:19:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T07:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2006-12-19T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T17:50:26","slug":"someone-keep-me-off-of-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1095","title":{"rendered":"Someone keep me off of ebay."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think I could remember the rules of correct ebay-ing, but I can&#8217;t. I always think that I&#8217;m screwing up and often I am. I usually want SOMEONE ELSE TO WIN so I don&#8217;t have to buy the thing I just overbid, but then when they do I wonder why I&#8217;m such a loser. Right now I think I have a bid on a $250 plumbing tool that I already bought with, &#8220;buy it now.&#8221; I hope I don&#8217;t end up with two.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, I had to take my computer into the Apple Store because they dented the lid when they fixed it. I always make late 8PM appointments at the Apple Store because it&#8217;s easier to get to, but fewer hotties are shopping at the mall at that late hour. I suppose there are fewer hotties at the mall this week since it&#8217;s being overrun by kids who are out of school for winter break.<\/p>\n<p>I also had to buy a new wallet as a Xmas present for me from my parents. I&#8217;m not sure how long a Coach wallet is supposed to last, but my guess is about 3 years. Being a dude, I don&#8217;t want to buy a new wallet more often than once every fifteen years. My old one seemed to wear out a lot quicker than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think I could remember the rules of correct ebay-ing, but I can&#8217;t. I always think that I&#8217;m screwing up and often I am. I usually want SOMEONE ELSE TO WIN so I don&#8217;t have to buy the thing I just overbid, but then when they do I wonder why I&#8217;m such a loser. Right now I think I have a bid on a $250 plumbing tool that I already bought with, &#8220;buy it now.&#8221; I hope I don&#8217;t end up with two. On another note, I had to take my computer into the Apple Store because they dented the lid when they fixed it. I always make late 8PM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone keep me off of ebay.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}