{"id":371,"date":"2004-12-27T23:09:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=371"},"modified":"2004-12-29T22:15:49","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T05:15:49","slug":"worrying-about-the-wrong-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Worrying about the wrong things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my ex never called me to pill her cat while she&#8217;s off on vacation. Now I&#8217;m worried about the cat.<\/p>\n<p>So back to complaining about shirt sizes. I don&#8217;t find myself to be a huge guy, but I feel like a pig and according the Body Mass Index charts I&#8217;m overweight at 169 lbs. When I left Japan I was 65kg, or about 143lbs. Now I&#8217;m close to 169lbs or 76.7kg. Yeesh. My old driver&#8217;s license doesn&#8217;t show my weight:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/jpn_dl.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But my new one does, and of course the weight is a little off:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ordl.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But anyway, borderline fat boy (according the the BMI scale) wears a MEDIUM shirt and a SMALL jacket. Yeesh. Can&#8217;t we get some coordination between the clothing manufacturers and the health guidelines? And no, they&#8217;re not all tight and well, you know, non-heterosexual-looking. Not that it makes any difference. The closest I get to romance is watching the DVD of <b>Love Actually<\/b> I have on my desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my ex never called me to pill her cat while she&#8217;s off on vacation. Now I&#8217;m worried about the cat. So back to complaining about shirt sizes. I don&#8217;t find myself to be a huge guy, but I feel like a pig and according the Body Mass Index charts I&#8217;m overweight at 169 lbs. When I left Japan I was 65kg, or about 143lbs. Now I&#8217;m close to 169lbs or 76.7kg. Yeesh. My old driver&#8217;s license doesn&#8217;t show my weight: But my new one does, and of course the weight is a little off: But anyway, borderline fat boy (according the the BMI scale) wears a MEDIUM shirt and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Worrying about the wrong things.<\/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-371","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\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}