{"id":350,"date":"2004-12-06T23:56:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T06:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=350"},"modified":"2004-12-07T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T08:02:08","slug":"back-to-the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Back to the gym."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, in the locker room of the gym, surrounded by naked guys, and I really wanted to get out of there so I could start exercising (and have the cute girls sneer at me.) But I couldn&#8217;t! In the week-and-a-half since I&#8217;d last been to the gym, I forgot the combination to my lock. In my mind it was a mish-mash of the last two locks I had. (Both bought recently; I lost the first one.)<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, after twisting the thing around for a while I figured it out. I had the same problem on the way out. The guy standing next to me laughed and told me that was why he had to use a keyed padlock for his locker.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and my other fun for the day: since AT&#038;T and TDMA are going the way of the dodo, I went to the <del>AT&#038;T<\/del> Cingular store to see what deal they had for me. The phones weren&#8217;t that much fun and the plans were more expensive than, say, T-Mobile. But they did say that I&#8217;d get a new user deal if I explicitly switched from AT&#038;T to Cingular. The worst part is that I&#8217;ve been such a &#8220;loyal customer&#8221; that my $29\/mo plan gives me my original 60 minutes + 60 bonus minutes + 100 bonus minutes + 1000 weekend and evening minutes. And my evening starts earlier than others, at 8PM. I LOSE ALL THAT.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well, that&#8217;s progress for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, in the locker room of the gym, surrounded by naked guys, and I really wanted to get out of there so I could start exercising (and have the cute girls sneer at me.) But I couldn&#8217;t! In the week-and-a-half since I&#8217;d last been to the gym, I forgot the combination to my lock. In my mind it was a mish-mash of the last two locks I had. (Both bought recently; I lost the first one.) Fortunately, after twisting the thing around for a while I figured it out. I had the same problem on the way out. The guy standing next to me laughed and told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to the gym.<\/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-350","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\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}