{"id":2122,"date":"2005-02-03T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2005-02-03T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T14:52:12","slug":"brakes_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/brakes_work\/","title":{"rendered":"brakes work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/digicam\/vern_escaptes.jpg\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"vern_escaptes.jpg\" title=\"the beautiful tanya and the wily vern at aqua riva\" \/><\/div>\n<p>even after a crappy day at work and then a crappy afterwork (wherein i stopped at metrotown to pick up my jeans only to find i&#8217;d left my wallet at work), i managed to get myself together and get across the harbour to meet up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-goddess.net\/peechie\/\">jen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netchick.ca\/\">tanya<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javakinetic.blogspot.com\/\">vern<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macapinlac.com\/\">ritchie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/colene.blogspot.com\/\">colene<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunson.ca\/blog\/\">gill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonkwok.ca\/\">nelson<\/a> for dinner at aqua riva.  unfortunately, gill was sick and left before the appetizers arrived, which was a total bummer (dude) because i was very much looking forward to talking about cats.  all. night. long.<br \/>\nthe meal was beautiful and delicious.  i don&#8217;t often get out for fine dining in any sense of the phrase, so it was a real treat for me to go out to a restaurant that actually has a coat check and gives you TWO kinds of bread and spreads before your meal.  the place was packed, but i scored the seat right by the window (sweet) so when they all started to bore me, i just watched the lights twinkle on the water.<br \/>\nof course, i&#8217;m kidding about that.  the lights were <i>glittering<\/i> on the water.  teehee.<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t know, i&#8217;d love to relate to you all the fun and funny conversations we had, but i don&#8217;t have that uncanny photographic memory for quoting people.  the best i could do is paraphrase and, well, that never turns out well.  besides, why try to reproduce such a great, lively, interesting evening out when we all have it in our memories?  if you really wanted to share in it, you should have been there!<br \/>\nritchie put up all the photos <s>he<\/s> we took with his adorable little camera.  i think i like it, if only because it somehow made me look halfway decent (go canon go).  although, i&#8217;m still not sure why colene wanted to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ritchierocks\/4191360\/\">lick my face<\/a>.<br \/>\np.s.  my <a href=\"http:\/\/horoscopes.astrology.com\/dailylongcancer.html?arrivalSA=1&#038;cobrandRef=0&#038;arrival_freqCap=1&#038;pba=adid=13632501\">horoscope<\/a> says:<br \/>\n<i>Intimacy is the name of game now &#8212; and you, of course, being the emotional, sensitive creature that you are &#8212; won&#8217;t mind a bit. Since you&#8217;re so good at spoiling the ones you love, there&#8217;s an excellent chance that you won&#8217;t hear any arguments when you suggest to a certain someone that you two start the fun early. Especially since they&#8217;ve probably been waiting for you to make your move for some time now.<\/i><br \/>\nso, who&#8217;s been waiting and why haven&#8217;t you said anything?<br \/>\np.p.s.  i&#8217;ve decided on my designated crush for 2005.  yay!  new crush!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>even after a crappy day at work and then a crappy afterwork (wherein i stopped at metrotown to pick up my jeans only to find i&#8217;d left my wallet at work), i managed to get myself together and get across the harbour to meet up with jen, tanya, vern, ritchie, colene, gill and nelson for <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/brakes_work\/\" 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-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}