{"id":682,"date":"2004-07-26T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/682"},"modified":"2004-07-26T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T01:56:00","slug":"how-do-i-use-this-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/682","title":{"rendered":"How do I use this thing again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well hellooooooo LJ! <\/p>\n<p>Long time, no internet connection or computer for me. But now I have both. And all I have to do is remember how to use them. First, a brief recap of the past few months, starting with 1 hour ago:<br \/>\n-after frantic phonecalls to cousin in BC and <lj user=\"sanity_clause\">, figured out how to network the house computers together and get them both on the &#8216;net<br \/>\n-2 hours ago, ate a meal so large it would gag a python (seriously, I barely chewed, very glad only one witness to my gluttony)<br \/>\n-3 hours ago, helped JVL bandage his hand after an unfortunate run-in with some soap suds and a broken Bodum (Captain Picard-style tea beakers)<br \/>\n-4 hours ago, ran helter-skelter for the GOTrain to Weston, bludgeoning fellow pedestrians competing for sidewalk real estate with my 875lb woad-blue backpack (on loan from the lovely Paul Z)<br \/>\n-5 hours ago, escaped from work and dashed to the Snail<br \/>\n-6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 hours ago, before the work-coma set in, got ripped off by a Toronto cabbie en route to government offices; too tired to protest absurd fare<br \/>\n-15 hours ago, disembarked from special &#8220;Parchment Air&#8221; flight Vegas to Pearson Int&#8217;l *note: actually flew America West, but I think they should change their name and adopt the motto &#8220;we guarantee not an atom of moisture will pollute our arid cabin atmosphere!&#8221; it was a little dry in there.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got inme for now. Must sleep. If Allah is willing, I will return and type more tomorrow, about San Diego and other stuff, too. Best to break myself in gently, though.<\/p>\n<p>Missed you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well hellooooooo LJ! Long time, no internet connection or computer for me. But now I have both. And all I have to do is remember how to use them. First, a brief recap of the past few months, starting with 1 hour ago: -after frantic phonecalls to cousin in BC and , figured out how <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/682\">[&hellip;]<\/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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}