{"id":3485,"date":"2010-02-28T00:20:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T08:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2010-02-28T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T08:20:56","slug":"sad-but-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"Sad but true."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If an alien were watching me to figure out what I really liked to do, what would he see? Probably that I like doing home improvement projects, poorly. Today was actually pretty fun because I was able to take Sean and his daughter Hannah out for Sean&#8217;s birthday lunch at Skyline Burgers. Compared to the burgers we&#8217;ve had at Burger Club, it&#8217;s not such a big deal, but it&#8217;s a good diner burger. And the milkshakes push it over the top as far as my ratings go.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the aliens. If they did see me, they&#8217;d probably think what I like to do is home improvement, poorly. I spent the rest of my afternoon finally putting curtains in my office. Belgian linen drapery for my office. Really? Restoration Hardware gets my business mainly because they&#8217;re in my neighborhood. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that there are attractive women working there, but I really do like the hardware. But $500 for drapes in my office seems kind of excessive. Now that I have them in, they&#8217;re pretty nice, but it&#8217;s dark in my office now.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so the only other thing I&#8217;m mentally wrestling with today is whether I should sign up for eHarmony or not. Last year I actually went on some dates, unlike most years of my life, but now I&#8217;m wondering if I should just sign up. My heterosexual life partner Il has a girlfriend now thanks to eHarmony and he&#8217;s no longer calling me up to accompany him to life events. He thinks I should take the plunge and become one of &#8220;them&#8221; as well. His girlfriend is an atheist, like me, so I&#8217;m guessing that&#8217;s not an issue for eHarmony like everyone thinks it is. Lord knows I have no game otherwise, and I need some help.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I should mention, for the second year in a row, I&#8217;ve asked out someone out of my league and it&#8217;s gone nowhere. Last year I missed out going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazilgrillrestaurant.com\/\">Brazil Grill<\/a> and this year I&#8217;m missing out on going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleysplace.net\/\">Paley&#8217;s Place<\/a> because I&#8217;m just not able to ask out someone who is appropriate for me. It&#8217;s not like I follow any societal norms. I&#8217;m a nerd. I&#8217;m going to die alone with cats eating my face, if I can only get off my ass and buy a goddamn cat. I&#8217;m going to have to settle for bugs and microbacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If an alien were watching me to figure out what I really liked to do, what would he see? Probably that I like doing home improvement projects, poorly. Today was actually pretty fun because I was able to take Sean and his daughter Hannah out for Sean&#8217;s birthday lunch at Skyline Burgers. Compared to the burgers we&#8217;ve had at Burger Club, it&#8217;s not such a big deal, but it&#8217;s a good diner burger. And the milkshakes push it over the top as far as my ratings go. But back to the aliens. If they did see me, they&#8217;d probably think what I like to do is home improvement, poorly. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=3485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sad but true.<\/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-3485","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\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}