{"id":4803,"date":"2011-08-31T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T06:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2011-08-31T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T06:24:19","slug":"disappointments-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4803","title":{"rendered":"Disappointments abound."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess not everything is a disappointment. I was expecting the antibiotic I&#8217;m taking to upset my digestive system and it&#8217;s doing that quite nicely. At least antibiotics come in horse-pill sizes so you feel like you&#8217;re getting something for the money you pay.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest disappointment of the day was going to they Dairy Queen near work for lunch. They used to have the old-school menu (Queen burgers, King burgers, and a giant &#8220;Hillsburger&#8221;) but now they have a much more corporate-looking menu. The hamburgers were awesome in the past, like they&#8217;d used fresh meat, and they were served on real, though chipped, plates. Now it&#8217;s all fast-foodish paper and the burgers have that cafeteria taste. I described it as the same taste as the burgers in my high school. I thought the meat was actually fake until I showed up too early once and smelled them grilling. Somehow they pre-grill, let them sit, and then reheated them before they served them and that made them taste funny. My co-worker described it as the &#8220;rest stop Roy Rogers drive-through taste.&#8221; Oh how the mighty have fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Another disappointment was getting the external hard drive for my DirecTV DVR. Sure it&#8217;s bigger and will hold more shows, but it completely replaces the internal hard drive and it&#8217;s like resetting the whole thing. Nothing is set to record and all the settings were deleted. I was all set to re-enter all the shows to record but the DirecTV web site was down. Ugh. Time to put that all off. Besides, I have a bunch of &#8220;Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives&#8221; recorded and I don&#8217;t want to lose those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess not everything is a disappointment. I was expecting the antibiotic I&#8217;m taking to upset my digestive system and it&#8217;s doing that quite nicely. At least antibiotics come in horse-pill sizes so you feel like you&#8217;re getting something for the money you pay. My biggest disappointment of the day was going to they Dairy Queen near work for lunch. They used to have the old-school menu (Queen burgers, King burgers, and a giant &#8220;Hillsburger&#8221;) but now they have a much more corporate-looking menu. The hamburgers were awesome in the past, like they&#8217;d used fresh meat, and they were served on real, though chipped, plates. Now it&#8217;s all fast-foodish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=4803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disappointments abound.<\/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-4803","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\/4803","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=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}