{"id":1403,"date":"2007-08-24T23:53:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T06:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2007-08-24T23:53:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T06:53:25","slug":"pointlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Pointlessness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So somewhere around 12:30AM this morning, I was holding a razor blade in my left hand trying to figure out if I should cut into my right thumb. Keep in mind that I&#8217;m right-handed. I got a 3\/8&#8243; sliver in my thumb and at first I convinced myself it was just the blood after I pulled out most of the wood with my teeth. While I was lying in bed I finally decided that it hurt too much and it must be a sliver. So I got whatever cheap magnifying glasses, tweezers, and pins I could find and went to town. I&#8217;ll spare any more details, but it&#8217;s gone now. I&#8217;m planning on varnishing the basement railing to avoid this from happening again (it&#8217;s not the first time this has happened).<\/p>\n<p>I have a cough now, and it&#8217;s pretty much the kind of cough I can deal with. It&#8217;s not waking me up at night and it&#8217;s not that often. This morning, however, I was coughing stuff up. Why is it that doctors always want to know what color the stuff was? My usual doc wants to know if it&#8217;s green, and the TB researcher up the street wanted to know if it was red. It was neither, fortunately.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent much too much time trying to get IPV6 working at home. I doubt I&#8217;ll stop any time soon. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So somewhere around 12:30AM this morning, I was holding a razor blade in my left hand trying to figure out if I should cut into my right thumb. Keep in mind that I&#8217;m right-handed. I got a 3\/8&#8243; sliver in my thumb and at first I convinced myself it was just the blood after I pulled out most of the wood with my teeth. While I was lying in bed I finally decided that it hurt too much and it must be a sliver. So I got whatever cheap magnifying glasses, tweezers, and pins I could find and went to town. I&#8217;ll spare any more details, but it&#8217;s gone now. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pointlessness.<\/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-1403","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\/1403","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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}