{"id":1818,"date":"2008-08-04T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T05:56:12","slug":"im-way-too-lazy-to-be-a-dirty-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m way too lazy to be a dirty old man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was cold outside during the day. I think there were days in the 60&#8217;s and, in any case, it actually rained. But today it was 91&deg;F. Probably even more here in the city. The workout at the gym included 3 laps around the block and I have a hard time with more than 2 on a good day. The sudden heat and my trying to cough up a lung after being in the basement all weekend (blowing black snot) didn&#8217;t help either.<\/p>\n<p>When I left for the gym there was a girl down at the school practicing tennis against the wall. She was wearing shorts and a bikini top. I would have taken a better look, but I figure anyone with that sort of fashion sense is probably very, very young. An exhibitionist wouldn&#8217;t be behind the school and anyone closer to my age would probably be wearing long sleeves and sunscreen.<\/p>\n<p>I could always try to embrace my inner dirty old man and break out my trench coat and a bag of candy, but I don&#8217;t have the kind of aberrant tenacity to pull that off. First, it&#8217;s too hot to wear a trench coat and it only comes out of my closet when I&#8217;m wearing my suit and it&#8217;s raining like for a funeral. (The suit only comes out for weddings and funerals and weddings are usually during the sunny season.)<\/p>\n<p>And how in the hell would I keep a bag of candy in the house? First, I&#8217;d eat some for a sample. Then I&#8217;d have to make sure that the sample was representative of the rest of the bag. Then I&#8217;d have eaten almost half, so I&#8217;d have to eat approximately half of the candy. Then I&#8217;d accidentally east some more. Well, now that I was almost 2\/3 of the way through the bag, I&#8217;d have to get to 2\/3. But a 1\/3 of a bag of candy is close to 1\/4 so I could eat a bit more. And 1\/4 bag of candy isn&#8217;t worth keeping around so I&#8217;d have to finish it all. This theory seems to apply to cookies and cupcakes as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, I think I&#8217;ll stick to the ice cream as a vice, if I only had some ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I put some pictures of plumbing on yesterday&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week it was cold outside during the day. I think there were days in the 60&#8217;s and, in any case, it actually rained. But today it was 91&deg;F. Probably even more here in the city. The workout at the gym included 3 laps around the block and I have a hard time with more than 2 on a good day. The sudden heat and my trying to cough up a lung after being in the basement all weekend (blowing black snot) didn&#8217;t help either. When I left for the gym there was a girl down at the school practicing tennis against the wall. She was wearing shorts and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m way too lazy to be a dirty old man.<\/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-1818","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\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}