{"id":2109,"date":"2009-01-15T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2009-01-15T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T19:14:00","slug":"observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snippets and observations from a day:<\/p>\n<p>* Woke and fought the alarm, as usual with alarms.<br \/>\n* Coffee.  Sometimes you need coffee before you go downstairs to get coffee.<br \/>\n* Solved technical problems by social means.  Primarily public shame and an unwillingness to just let it go.  Labelled the goddamn wires so it&#8217;ll be hard to claim ignorance when they get screwed up again.<br \/>\n* Solved technical problem by technical means.  Damn the tape robot.  Damn it to tape robot hell.<br \/>\n* Found a local judo club.  Called ahead.  Got nervous about grappling with <a href=\"http:\/\/sportjudo.org\/\">these people<\/a><br \/>\n* Lanced a social issue at work.  Sat very, very still while said social issue worked itself out.  Washed hands.<br \/>\n* Rode mass transit for 1.5 hours to get to workout.  Read first half of <u>The Watchmen<\/u><br \/>\n* Felt calm on the ground and standing.  Saw the opportunity to apply a choke, and applied it.  Opponent tapped.  Noticed flaws in technique, worked on them.<br \/>\n* Rode mass transit for 1.5 hours to get back to a hotel.  Nearly finished with <u>The Watchmen<\/u><br \/>\n* Decided to go to Hampton, VA tomorrow evening rather than stay here.  Save myself a whole trip by sacrificing a day.<br \/>\n* Hotel restaurant closed.  Restaurant kitchens close at 10pm.  Bars are open later.  Asked the front desk for local kitchens open late.  TGI Fridays.  Ick.<br \/>\n* Ate dinner surrounded by waitstaff having a beer after their shift.  Nice folks.  Foul deep fried dinner.  Foul.<br \/>\n* Heard lyrics in head &#8211; &#8220;Bartender&#8221; by Dave Matthews Band.  Next song on the radio was &#8220;Satellite&#8221; by the same.  I was thinking <em>Bartender please, fill my glass for me, with the wine you gave Jesus that set him free after three days in the ground.<\/em>, but instead I got <em>satellite, strung from the moon, and the world your balloon.<\/em><br \/>\n* Set up travel for tomorrow.  Dependencies:  Train, Flight, Car, Hotel.  Car depends on flight, since I need to know where to return the car.  Hotel totally doesn&#8217;t matter, since &#8220;recession&#8221; means &#8220;lots of hotel rooms.&#8221;<br \/>\n* Posted to LJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snippets and observations from a day:<\/p>\n<p>* Woke and fought the alarm, as usual with alarms. * Coffee. Sometimes you need coffee before you go downstairs to get coffee. * Solved technical problems by social means. Primarily public shame and an unwillingness to just let it go. Labelled the goddamn wires so it&#8217;ll be hard <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2109\">Observations<\/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":[71,79,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"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=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}