{"id":1976,"date":"2008-09-19T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T06:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2008-09-19T23:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T06:58:56","slug":"was-there-something-i-was-supposed-to-do-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1976","title":{"rendered":"Was there something I was supposed to do tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the birds, I&#8217;ve had to leave work on the early side to get a parking spot in front of the house. It&#8217;s the weekend now, so I got home around 4:30 and I almost was too late. I just have to hope it all ends soon.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have my tickets for Japan now. I have to figure out what to do about being in cell phone range again. Last year we rented a cell phone because what kind of Neanderthal doesn&#8217;t have a cell phone? We even had a US number you could call that would ring through to Japan. As I recall, the only real phone calls we got were from my brother-in-law, but I&#8217;m sure there were other calls as well. I wish there was a way to just get my iPhone to work in Japan for an amount of money that didn&#8217;t rival replacing my furnace, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s an option.<\/p>\n<p>Since my sister isn&#8217;t coming along, I have to stock up on paperbacks and I probably have to shop for lip balm for her. I don&#8217;t know why, but it&#8217;s an obsession for her. I&#8217;ll probably end up text messaging her about her lip balm enough times that it would have just made sense to buy her a ticket so she could buy her own lip balm. I offered to buy her a ticket already and she declined, so I&#8217;m destined to be her personal shopper. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the birds, I&#8217;ve had to leave work on the early side to get a parking spot in front of the house. It&#8217;s the weekend now, so I got home around 4:30 and I almost was too late. I just have to hope it all ends soon. I think I have my tickets for Japan now. I have to figure out what to do about being in cell phone range again. Last year we rented a cell phone because what kind of Neanderthal doesn&#8217;t have a cell phone? We even had a US number you could call that would ring through to Japan. As I recall, the only real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1976\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was there something I was supposed to do tonight?<\/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-1976","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\/1976","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=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}