{"id":1777,"date":"2003-12-08T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2003-12-08T10:13:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T10:13:20","slug":"watching_waitin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/watching_waitin\/","title":{"rendered":"watching, waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/images\/digicam\/myeye.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"i'm watching you!\" title=\"i'm watching you!\" \/><\/div>\n<p>i&#8217;m in far too good a mood to be at work.  i had such an overall great, fun, productive weekend!  the only thing wrong with it was not playing cards with m&#038;m&#038;d <i>again<\/i>.  it totally throws my life out of whack without that part of my routine.  that&#8217;s okay, cards is on the calendar for this coming saturday. literally.  and i&#8217;m showing up regardless of any other schedule changes.  at the very least, i could search around for my xmas present!<br \/>\nspeaking of xmas presents, they&#8217;re seriously pissing me off this year.  i finally figured out what to get my dad and dean, i had m&#038;m&#8217;s presents figured out months ago, and mom just wants cash for her vegas trip in march.  that&#8217;s the bulk of it, but karen and brenda have me completely stymied.   i think i&#8217;ll just ask karen what she wants for her new apartment or get her an ikea gift certificate or  something similar.  as for brenda, i don&#8217;t want to spend too much, but karen already got her movie gift certificates, so that option&#8217;s closed.  ugh.  i suppose two gifts left with two weeks to go isn&#8217;t that bad.  i wish everyone had an amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/registry\/1MAQ9ZTMYX5Q0\/\">wish list<\/a>.<br \/>\nall right, i have a rant.  why don&#8217;t people signal when they&#8217;re driving?  don&#8217;t they realize that your indicators are they only way other drivers have clue as to what&#8217;s going on in your addled mind?  the same goes for brake lights.  dear god, how many times have i seen cars with completely non-functioning brake lights?!      what kind of moron thinks it&#8217;s acceptable to drive without working brake lights?  yeah, yeah.  &#8220;but i can&#8217;t see my brake lights to know if they&#8217;ve gone out!&#8221;  uh, i don&#8217;t know about you, but i actually check mine.  while i&#8217;m warming up my car in the mornings i usually flick on and check all my turn indicators and ensure my brake lights are all working.  it&#8217;s really not that hard and, honestly, i&#8217;d rather do that than find someone&#8217;s bumper up my ass because they didn&#8217;t know what my vehicular intentions were.  it&#8217;s only a flick of your finger, people.  do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m in far too good a mood to be at work. i had such an overall great, fun, productive weekend! the only thing wrong with it was not playing cards with m&#038;m&#038;d again. it totally throws my life out of whack without that part of my routine. that&#8217;s okay, cards is on the calendar for <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/watching_waitin\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}