{"id":831,"date":"2008-05-20T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:09:00","slug":"absence-of-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/absence-of-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence of posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because I&#8217;m not posting doesn&#8217;t mean things aren&#8217;t happening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I went down to SoCal for my cousin&#8217;s Bar Mitzvah last weekend.  It&#8217;s scary that he&#8217;s 13 already, because I remember him being born.  I also think I impressed him by &#8220;fixing&#8221; their TV to make the Wii work by changing it to the right input with a single button press.\n<li>I&#8217;m trying to lose weight again, although I haven&#8217;t introduced more exercise into the equation yet, I am back to eating less.  I know it&#8217;s not enough yet, but I&#8217;m still trying to work out my routine.\n<li>I&#8217;m also in the process of examining my budget, after realizing that I&#8217;m probably spending more on random per-month things than I really need to.  Scarily, the money I spend on FFXI each month is starting to seem like it would be better spent elsewhere.  I&#8217;m also going to try to look into possibly refinancing to lock into a nice low rate, even though my ARM is going to be coming back down because it&#8217;s a 12 month moving average.  My mortgage payment is about 130% of what it was when I first started, and that extra money every month really starts to hurt.\n<li>My room is probably the cleanest its ever been since I moved in.  I&#8217;ve been working on the various regions of it, and I just managed to get my desk mostly cleared this weekend.  The last few steps were amazingly noticeable &#8212; sections of carpet that hadn&#8217;t seen the light of day in years were now visible.  Seeing each part by itself was already pretty amazing, once I managed to get it all done at once, I&#8217;m going to have to take pictures as historical proof.\n<li>My Prius didn&#8217;t get as good mileage as I thought it would have when I drove down to SoCal.  I suppose it makes sense: when you&#8217;re driving at a constant speed on a flat road, a hybrid doesn&#8217;t really get much benefit.  I was &#8220;only&#8221; getting 38-40 mpg on I-5.  But then when I hit LA, and I was driving up and down hills, slowing down and speeding up, it went back up to 50.  I was a bit afraid that I wouldn&#8217;t make it on one tank of gas (it&#8217;s a smaller tank than my last car, which could barely make it on one tank), but I managed with miles to spare.<\/ul>\n<p>Back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because I&#8217;m not posting doesn&#8217;t mean things aren&#8217;t happening. I went down to SoCal for my cousin&#8217;s Bar Mitzvah last weekend. It&#8217;s scary that he&#8217;s 13 already, because I remember him being born. I also think I impressed him by &#8220;fixing&#8221; their TV to make the Wii work by changing it to the right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/absence-of-posting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Absence of posting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,33,50,11],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-car","tag-ffxi","tag-money","tag-what-i-did"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}