{"id":450,"date":"2005-03-24T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-25T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2005-03-25T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T01:20:06","slug":"time-to-hide-in-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Time to hide in the basement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I spent a lot of time in the basement tonight, putting together more ham radio stuff, but I realized that I was limited by my &#8220;need&#8221; to watch <b>Joey<\/b> and <b>Dragon Ball: GT<\/b>. So I thought I was slowing down on the building pace but I only put in a couple of hours. (In the past, I represented the US in an International electronic assembly competition. I don&#8217;t remember how well I did, and think I might have come in dead last, but I do know I didn&#8217;t win.) In any case, I was good at this at some point, good enough to be sent to Linz, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. Now that I think of it, I was a day late and a dollar short there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Time to try to get some sleep. There&#8217;s a Japanese saying about springtime and sleeping like you were dead or something (which doesn&#8217;t sound all that great when you say it in translation) but I&#8217;ve been having troubles getting up lately. This morning I woke up in a panic, thinking it was mid-morning and I was late for work. My alarm hadn&#8217;t gone off yet. In any case, I&#8217;m probably going to end up screwing around until late and then drag into work. It&#8217;s just the way things are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I spent a lot of time in the basement tonight, putting together more ham radio stuff, but I realized that I was limited by my &#8220;need&#8221; to watch Joey and Dragon Ball: GT. So I thought I was slowing down on the building pace but I only put in a couple of hours. (In the past, I represented the US in an International electronic assembly competition. I don&#8217;t remember how well I did, and think I might have come in dead last, but I do know I didn&#8217;t win.) In any case, I was good at this at some point, good enough to be sent to Linz, Austria. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to hide in the basement.<\/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-450","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\/450","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=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}