{"id":2224,"date":"2008-11-17T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2008-11-17T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T07:10:14","slug":"getting-nothing-and-liking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"Getting nothing and liking it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out THMFIC at the gym is really sensitive about what I write about him, so I&#8217;m going to blithely ignore his objections and keep saying whatever the hell I feel like saying. Depressing things that don&#8217;t exaggerate his complaining ONE IOTA. Hah.<\/p>\n<p>One of the songs heard at the gym is the Rolling Stones&#8217; &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want.&#8221; The simple philosophy appeals to many, including THMFIC. I can list the things I couldn&#8217;t get tonight.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I went out to look for a cheap furnace air filter. Turns out the only ones I could find that fit are at Home Depot and cost $31. With all the dust generated by the construction, I figured I get some cheaper ones, but I can&#8217;t find any.<\/li>\n<li>The bathroom sink doesn&#8217;t drain very well, so I took it all apart again and snaked the drain. I got  nasty wastewater all over me, and the improvement is minimal.\n<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to come home to less of a mess than the contractors made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other part of the song says, &#8220;You find sometimes, you get what you need.&#8221; All I really got today was dinner at Popeye&#8217;s Fried Chicken. I&#8217;m not sure I needed that and I&#8217;m fairly sure that my arteries didn&#8217;t need it at all. I also need to iron some shirts, but that conflicts with a need to get some sleep before I go to work tomorrow. I also needed to get the garbage out to the curb, and I got that, so I guess sometimes I do get what I need. I declare victory: time for sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out THMFIC at the gym is really sensitive about what I write about him, so I&#8217;m going to blithely ignore his objections and keep saying whatever the hell I feel like saying. Depressing things that don&#8217;t exaggerate his complaining ONE IOTA. Hah. One of the songs heard at the gym is the Rolling Stones&#8217; &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Always Get What You Want.&#8221; The simple philosophy appeals to many, including THMFIC. I can list the things I couldn&#8217;t get tonight. I went out to look for a cheap furnace air filter. Turns out the only ones I could find that fit are at Home Depot and cost $31. With all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting nothing and liking it.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","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\/2224","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}