{"id":616,"date":"2005-09-14T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2011-01-28T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T03:20:14","slug":"i-had-a-girl-in-my-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"I had a girl in my bedroom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it sounds a lot better than it actually was. She was blonde and cute and SELLING ME WINDOWS. She had to measure the size of the current window. (For those who aren&#8217;t paying attention, like someone whose initials are SUN K BAE, the window is old, aluminum and rattly. So rattly that if the wind hits it a certain way, it makes a sound louder than any alarm clock I&#8217;ve ever heard, but I&#8217;ve never been a fireman so maybe it&#8217;s as loud as a fireman&#8217;s alarm clock. I don&#8217;t know.)<\/p>\n<p>So, what really happened today was getting pricing on a window for several thousand dollars, plus the garage door falling completely apart, and finding a rotted sewage pipe that I couldn&#8217;t fix very well. So, not only do I get to fix the foundation and the window, but I also get to pay for plumbing repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what my friend Greg calls a shitty picture:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/brokepipe.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>While I can make it sound like I had a good day (the whole girl in my bedroom for the first time in, what, four or five years) it wasn&#8217;t like someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=591\">sent me a bunch of ice cream<\/a> or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so it sounds a lot better than it actually was. She was blonde and cute and SELLING ME WINDOWS. She had to measure the size of the current window. (For those who aren&#8217;t paying attention, like someone whose initials are SUN K BAE, the window is old, aluminum and rattly. So rattly that if the wind hits it a certain way, it makes a sound louder than any alarm clock I&#8217;ve ever heard, but I&#8217;ve never been a fireman so maybe it&#8217;s as loud as a fireman&#8217;s alarm clock. I don&#8217;t know.) So, what really happened today was getting pricing on a window for several thousand dollars, plus the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I had a girl in my bedroom!<\/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-616","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\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}