{"id":1268,"date":"2006-07-04T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2006-07-04T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T15:32:00","slug":"more-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"More weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, pictures<\/a> from the weekend are up.<\/p>\n

We went to the demolition derby with capital_l<\/a> and technolope<\/a>, as well as Vinny<\/a> and nearly too many others to count. A good time was had by all, and I was once again overcome by the power and beauty of a spectacle where hundreds of men (and a woman!) come together to smash up perfectly good cars. There were also fireworks and patriotic music. <\/p>\n

Before that, we had a little electrical adventure, when redmed<\/a> attempted to dig a hole to place a plant in one of our flower beds and noticed that the “root” she had just stomped through was in fact 2 connector, 12 gauge wire. In related news, the garage door didn’t work anymore. The previous owner (not that this is any sort of surprise anymore) had done a half assed job, and buried the cable (a) sans conduit (b) about 4″ underground (c) in the GDMF flower bed. Seriously, why not place it someplace where you’re *unlikely* to dig casually. Anyway, I was sort of geeked by the fact that this sort of thing doesn’t even slow me down anymore. I’ve got 12 gauge wire, nuts, and electrical tape. I’ve even got a cheat sheet indicating which breaker serves that wire. I got it spliced and rocking again just in time for our guests to show up and look at me funny.<\/p>\n

Today’s adventure involved re-hanging the front gutters in the hope that they’ll catch water a little better. They were attached to the house such that there was a good inch or so of space between them and the flange that supposedly directs water into the gutter, off the roof. Now, there is appropriate overlap. I spent a fair amount of time sitting on the roof, which was fairly calm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, pictures from the weekend are up.<\/p>\n

We went to the demolition derby with capital_l and technolope, as well as Vinny and nearly too many others to count. A good time was had by all, and I was once again overcome by the power and beauty of a spectacle where hundreds of men (and a . . . → Read More: More weekend<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}