{"id":543,"date":"2005-02-05T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=543"},"modified":"2005-02-05T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T09:46:00","slug":"what-i-learned-today-by-fdmts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"What I learned today, by FDmTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) The nice people at Home Depot will cut your roller blinds to custom lengths for you, using this truly amazing blind cutting machine.  <\/p>\n<p>(2) When you measure roller blinds, *always* measure the distance between the mount points, *not* the width of the blind itself.  You want to end up with a roller the correct width.  The cloth will, naturally, follow the roller in terms of being the correct width.<\/p>\n<p>(3) You can exchange blinds that were cut to the wrong length, again with the nice people at Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I finished my first bottle of Dave&#8217;s Insanity Sauce.  To celebrate, I purchased another one.  Dave&#8217;s is the slowest consumed product of which I I know.  I love spicy food, and I (apparently) go through one bottle per decade, max.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on my mind:  When are the republicans going to get on with the agenda of hate and discrimination that got them elected?  They mobilized their base with anti-gay fear mongering and that white supremacist code word &#8220;values.&#8221;  I would have thought they&#8217;d follow through.   Instead, they&#8217;re going after social security and high malpractice payouts.  Even more weirdly, I&#8217;m sort of a fan of both initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m confused.  I thought they were going to ban gay marriage, crush unions in favor of big business, and destroy the arctic wildlife preserve.  That&#8217;s what I voted against, anyway.  Damn flip floppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) The nice people at Home Depot will cut your roller blinds to custom lengths for you, using this truly amazing blind cutting machine. (2) When you measure roller blinds, *always* measure the distance between the mount points, *not* the width of the blind itself. You want to end up with a roller the correct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}