{"id":974,"date":"2005-06-14T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/974"},"modified":"2005-06-14T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:31:00","slug":"yesterday-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/974","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday, I…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…got soaked by the massive deluge that hit while I was walking to Union to catch the train. Although I was made aware of this nifty science fact during an unfortunate Muskoka canoeing adventure several years ago, I was given a forcible reminder that denim and water do not mix. Neither do sopping wet purses and certified cheques, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n

…had to sit on the GOTrain for over 40 minutes while the conductor dudes scrambled out every few hundred meters to manually change the switches. Damned switches! Damned air conditioning on trains turning my soaking wet nipples numb with cold!<\/p>\n

…bought a car from the Internet. Yes, you read that right. A car. A four-wheeled, two-doored, hatchbacked, automatic vehicle. From the Internet. Damned craigslist!<\/a> See, there was this adorable little 95 Suzuki Swift, and it needed a good home. It’s A\/C was broken, and it was born without power steering, but it gave good mileage for gas with its sturdy little 4-cylinder engine, and it had passed all its safety and emissions tests, so I took it under my wing and paid the $1200 adoption fee. It needed me<\/i>, don’t you see? Now we have to find a name for it. Pepe has been suggested, as has Jefe. I may do a poll eventually, but for now, suggestions are welcome. As is gas money. <\/p>\n

This isn’t a photo of the car itself, but will give you an idea:
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Also? sent me to the ‘Post a Secret’ site, and I want to share it with you. Read some secrets, they’re beautiful.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…got soaked by the massive deluge that hit while I was walking to Union to catch the train. Although I was made aware of this nifty science fact during an unfortunate Muskoka canoeing adventure several years ago, I was given a forcible reminder that denim and water do not mix. Neither do sopping wet purses […]<\/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-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}