{"id":595,"date":"2005-08-21T22:43:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T05:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2005-08-21T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T05:43:58","slug":"another-exciting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Another exciting day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Oregon, we have a bottle bill, maybe the first in the country, where you pay a nickel deposit on most every soft drink bottle, and they give it back to you. They have these machines that take your bottle or can one at a time, spin it around so it can read the bar code, crush it, and count it. Rejected cans are returned to you undamaged. At the end it spits out a receipt. The worst part about the machines is that some incompetent industrial engineer appears to have designed it. I&#8217;ve had cans scanned and crushed without getting a credit. It&#8217;s MY FIVE CENTS after all. Anyway, the real story is that my dad goes through a lot of Coke and never takes the cans back. I finally got around to going to Safeway and got back $14.95. That&#8217;s 299 cans of his Coke cans I had to stick in the machine, one at a time!<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day I spent trying to wreck the house. I started ripping the trim off of my window so I can measure the opening. Sounds like a new Pella window is going to cost me two large.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/windowmolding.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also had to climb under the house to move some visqueen around. Her e I am modelling my new coveralls. \ud83d\ude42 At least those only cost me $20.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/moleman.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oregon, we have a bottle bill, maybe the first in the country, where you pay a nickel deposit on most every soft drink bottle, and they give it back to you. They have these machines that take your bottle or can one at a time, spin it around so it can read the bar code, crush it, and count it. Rejected cans are returned to you undamaged. At the end it spits out a receipt. The worst part about the machines is that some incompetent industrial engineer appears to have designed it. I&#8217;ve had cans scanned and crushed without getting a credit. It&#8217;s MY FIVE CENTS after all. Anyway, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another exciting day.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","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\/595","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=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}