{"id":4353,"date":"2010-12-19T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T07:15:58","slug":"where-did-my-weekend-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"Where did my weekend go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I could say I&#8217;ve been busy with work and with non-work, but mostly I&#8217;ve been busy at work and that&#8217;s about it. I did spend most of the day trying to reverse-engineer the Harbor Freight alarm thing, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve decided that it&#8217;s kind of silly. I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time on it and I&#8217;m not quite finished, but I&#8217;m not really sure why I&#8217;m doing it any more because it looks like there&#8217;s not much I can change on it. Ah well, live and learn.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the year is nearing and I better get on the donations I always seem to put off until the end of the year. There&#8217;s probably some way of maximizing my tax benefit, but really my real goal is to assuage my liberal guilt. Besides, I always tell charities that I donate at the end of the year and I think it&#8217;s important that I&#8217;m not lying. I&#8217;ve tried in the past to see if I could actually donate 10% (like the god botherers and their tithing) but I can&#8217;t even do that much. Perhaps if I planned better, but I&#8217;m not exactly a planner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I could say I&#8217;ve been busy with work and with non-work, but mostly I&#8217;ve been busy at work and that&#8217;s about it. I did spend most of the day trying to reverse-engineer the Harbor Freight alarm thing, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve decided that it&#8217;s kind of silly. I&#8217;ve spent a bit of time on it and I&#8217;m not quite finished, but I&#8217;m not really sure why I&#8217;m doing it any more because it looks like there&#8217;s not much I can change on it. Ah well, live and learn. The end of the year is nearing and I better get on the donations I always seem to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where did my weekend go?<\/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-4353","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\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}