{"id":283,"date":"2004-09-12T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:19:20","slug":"nice-calm-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Nice, calm weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t do all that much. Hung out with my friend Greg and spent $100 on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surefire.com\/E2E-Executive-Elite\">flashlight<\/a> which does seem a little excessive but I hate cheesy flashlights. $20 for a MagLight is fine, but they&#8217;re really crap compared to the Surefire. In the dark, it makes a difference, and if I&#8217;m stumbling around in the dark looking for whatever made a loud noise, I don&#8217;t want to have to guess what&#8217;s hiding in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>I already have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surefire.com\/E1E-Executive-Elite\">single-battery version<\/a> but the two-cell version is much brighter. I could have bought the plastic body version for $35, but what fun is that?<\/p>\n<p>Today I mostly just watched a few football games, something I enjoy doing, so I&#8217;m going to keep doing it. Had lunch with my friend Megan and her mom, and her mom said Megan and I should have kids together. OK, if the population of the nuthouse is decreasing, that would be a good idea; otherwise I think it would be better if we found sane people to have kids with to even the kids chances out a little.<\/p>\n<p>Was that a gratuitous use of a semicolon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t do all that much. Hung out with my friend Greg and spent $100 on a flashlight which does seem a little excessive but I hate cheesy flashlights. $20 for a MagLight is fine, but they&#8217;re really crap compared to the Surefire. In the dark, it makes a difference, and if I&#8217;m stumbling around in the dark looking for whatever made a loud noise, I don&#8217;t want to have to guess what&#8217;s hiding in the shadows. I already have the single-battery version but the two-cell version is much brighter. I could have bought the plastic body version for $35, but what fun is that? Today I mostly just watched a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice, calm weekend.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","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\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}