{"id":2574,"date":"2009-03-16T21:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2009-03-17T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T01:37:43","slug":"for-those-of-you-keeping-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"For those of you keeping score:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn, you win.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress, it was a red-letter day today. My beautiful new shower is pretty nice, but I&#8217;ve been having my troubles with it. The door is quite pretty, but it leaks. I can&#8217;t get them to fix it correctly. And the grout looked like it wasn&#8217;t sealed right and was crumbling. The contractor didn&#8217;t really believe me, but when the tile guy came back to look at it he knew right away that something was wrong. He&#8217;s going to let it dry out for three days, work on it for three days, and let it cure for three more days. So I can&#8217;t use my expensive new shower for nine days.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not so bad because I had tomorrow to look forward to. I actually was going out to dinner tomorrow with someone, well, age inappropriate, to a restaurant that everyone tells me is rather good. Tonight at 8:43PM, I got a text message, &#8220;&#8230; I am starting to see someone and I cant go on a date with you. I am REALLY sorry its so last minute.&#8221; I am disappointed, but I figured things would go awry and I immediately started thinking of backup plans. I called Il and asked him if he wanted to go, but he&#8217;s off meat because of stomach problems and the restaurant is eat-all-you-can carnivore food. I just ended up canceling my reservation.<\/p>\n<p>So the bad news is that I am not going out on a date. I&#8217;ve been playing it down and telling people who knew about that I was just going out to dinner, it wasn&#8217;t a date. If you recall, everyone thought I was going out on a date last year but the woman who I was going with didn&#8217;t, and she started inviting all her friends to come along. The good news is that if you read the above text message carefully, you&#8217;ll notice I almost went out on a date! That&#8217;s as close as I&#8217;ve been since the last date I was on, three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In any case: Carolyn, you don&#8217;t have to eat your hat. I give up. I promise not to ask anyone else out for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and surprise. I just opened up a form letter and I may have problems with my health insurance. I hope this day doesn&#8217;t get any better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn, you win. But I digress, it was a red-letter day today. My beautiful new shower is pretty nice, but I&#8217;ve been having my troubles with it. The door is quite pretty, but it leaks. I can&#8217;t get them to fix it correctly. And the grout looked like it wasn&#8217;t sealed right and was crumbling. The contractor didn&#8217;t really believe me, but when the tile guy came back to look at it he knew right away that something was wrong. He&#8217;s going to let it dry out for three days, work on it for three days, and let it cure for three more days. So I can&#8217;t use my expensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For those of you keeping score:<\/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-2574","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\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}