{"id":1777,"date":"2008-07-24T23:57:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2008-07-24T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:57:49","slug":"what-a-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"What a long day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know things aren&#8217;t quite right when you start your day off with a 7:30AM meeting and you finally get home at 11PM and all you&#8217;ve had to eat for dinner was some cashews and a couple of cookies. Especially if you had to work through dinner, watching people trying to configure a computer that shouldn&#8217;t be so hard to fix. Oh, and lunch was a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger at the Wendy&#8217;s stand in the airport which you ate standing in line to get on the plane that you barely caught. At least barely catching the return flight wasn&#8217;t so bad because I GOT HOME.<\/p>\n<p>When I got home I noticed that my gateway computer had rebooted itself. I&#8217;m not quite sure that it&#8217;s working quite right, which is another joy in itself. Also, I guess while I was away, my mother was sick in bed with a 102&deg;F fever. Fortunately my sister was around and I don&#8217;t know what all went on. All I can tell you is that a trip to San Jose is probably a lot more pleasant if you see more than the airport, the rental car agency, and the conference room of the company you&#8217;re going to visit. Even if they bribe you with a half-dozen peanuts and a day-old pot of coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know things aren&#8217;t quite right when you start your day off with a 7:30AM meeting and you finally get home at 11PM and all you&#8217;ve had to eat for dinner was some cashews and a couple of cookies. Especially if you had to work through dinner, watching people trying to configure a computer that shouldn&#8217;t be so hard to fix. Oh, and lunch was a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger at the Wendy&#8217;s stand in the airport which you ate standing in line to get on the plane that you barely caught. At least barely catching the return flight wasn&#8217;t so bad because I GOT HOME. When I got home I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What a long day.<\/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-1777","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\/1777","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=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}