{"id":2733,"date":"2009-05-21T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2009-05-21T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T06:39:26","slug":"getting-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"Getting lucky."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I think I may be setting myself up for failure. I&#8217;m sticking my head out of my hole when I really know I should be hiding. The less notice I get, the better off I am. That&#8217;s about all I can say.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the sad part of my life, which I probably shouldn&#8217;t even say anything about, is that getting lucky means I only spent $120 tonight. I&#8217;ve already been asked how you can spend $120 going to the movies, but there was sushi involved in all this. Really, the way things have been going, if things went the way I was thinking:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/datecost.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/datecost-232x300.png\" alt=\"datecost\" title=\"datecost\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2736\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>But really, that assumes a linear increase when we all know that it should be exponential. It&#8217;s too hard to extrapolate that sort of thing from two data points. Really, I should just stick to my strengths and just buy a bag of tacos ($0.99 for two deep fried tacos at Jack-in-the-Box) and rent all the Star Trek DVDs. Leaving the house is just too scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I think I may be setting myself up for failure. I&#8217;m sticking my head out of my hole when I really know I should be hiding. The less notice I get, the better off I am. That&#8217;s about all I can say. I guess the sad part of my life, which I probably shouldn&#8217;t even say anything about, is that getting lucky means I only spent $120 tonight. I&#8217;ve already been asked how you can spend $120 going to the movies, but there was sushi involved in all this. Really, the way things have been going, if things went the way I was thinking: But really, that assumes a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting lucky.<\/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-2733","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\/2733","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=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}