{"id":765,"date":"2006-01-30T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2006-01-30T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T07:36:10","slug":"first-the-repetitive-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"First, the repetitive bad news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night it rained a lot. We&#8217;re talking landslide and flooding creeks sort of a lot. It rains all winter here, but we&#8217;re not big on volume, and this January was in the top 10 of rainfall somewhere. Just where I don&#8217;t know because I wasn&#8217;t paying enough attention during the weather report. Anyway, the sound of the rain PLUS THE SOUND OF MY WINDOW were waking me up last night. I called Pella again, and the guy knew exactly who it was. I mean, he seems nice enough but he&#8217;s not doing all that much for me. Oh, well, I figure I&#8217;ll keep bugging him until he tells me to shove it and then I&#8217;ll just have to remove the window and leave the shards in the Pella parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m still writing about it here because I haven&#8217;t written it down anywhere else and I may need a coherent record of what I did and how annoying the window is to me. Just in case, you see.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s about it. I was going to be put on another megacorp project, but it looks like that&#8217;s not going to happen. All the same old stuff. My paychecks keep coming in and I keep staying late. It&#8217;s a megacorp tradition, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night it rained a lot. We&#8217;re talking landslide and flooding creeks sort of a lot. It rains all winter here, but we&#8217;re not big on volume, and this January was in the top 10 of rainfall somewhere. Just where I don&#8217;t know because I wasn&#8217;t paying enough attention during the weather report. Anyway, the sound of the rain PLUS THE SOUND OF MY WINDOW were waking me up last night. I called Pella again, and the guy knew exactly who it was. I mean, he seems nice enough but he&#8217;s not doing all that much for me. Oh, well, I figure I&#8217;ll keep bugging him until he tells me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First, the repetitive bad news.<\/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-765","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\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}