{"id":481,"date":"2011-05-05T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=481"},"modified":"2011-05-05T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:07:26","slug":"nothing-day-new-date-saving-friday-the-13th-eq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Day! (New Date, Saving, Friday the 13th, EQ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wowzers, look at this!\u00a0 It&#8217;s Nothing Day and for the second week in a row, I am posting!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Big news of the week is that I have a new date planned.\u00a0 The previous date was missed because (1) my would-be date was sick and (b) she could not log into Facebook to find the contact information I sent her.\u00a0 So even if (b) wasn&#8217;t true, she wouldn&#8217;t have been able to make it anyway.\u00a0 That&#8217;s okay; I asked out a <em>different<\/em> person at church, somebody I will call Hugs for my own obscure reason.\u00a0 No, she&#8217;s not a huggy person; as I said, the reasons are obscure.\u00a0 The date is tomorrow night and is at least a little bit different.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be going to her house (I have been there before and know the address) with the original <em>Hoodwinked<\/em> movie on DVD.\u00a0 We will watch it and then go see the sequel, which is now out in theaters.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a good chance her twelve-year-old daughter will be along, but I still see it as a mostly regular date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The money I will spend on my date will be an exception to a new practice for me:\u00a0 Saving money.\u00a0 I want to have at least a thousand saved back for my trip in July to Indiana.\u00a0 I <em>did<\/em> place my usual payday Amazon order late last night when my paycheck hit my bank, but I exercised some restraint and ordered much less than I wanted to, if that makes any sense.\u00a0 I even removed something from my cart, as I added something a couple of days ago which put the total a little higher than I wanted.\u00a0 Anyway, I hope to have the money saved I want to have saved with my next paycheck, even with an Amazon order going out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The thing I added was a monk costume.\u00a0 I already have the haircut for it, and on Friday the 13th of this month, I am going to need it for a Medieval Supper one of my church friends is hosting.\u00a0 I will be helping out by serving and whatever else may be needed, and for that I need to be in costume.\u00a0 So I ordered one on Amazon, which meant I had to not order one other thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, EverQuest and, well, everything else SOE related went offline on Monday.\u00a0 A couple of weeks ago, the Playstation Network was taken offline due to being hacked.\u00a0 Sony then found out the hackers got into their SOE network as well, and got a bunch of information on people.\u00a0 The latest information is that Anonymous did it, although the Anonymous top dogs have anonymously denied involvement.\u00a0 Sony is hoping to bring SOE back online soon, but as of now EQ is not playable.\u00a0 Personally, I don&#8217;t understand why the games are offline, as it seems the damage has been done.\u00a0 Hopefully they are patching whatever vulnerability was used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have the usual poetry tomorrow.\u00a0 See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wowzers, look at this!\u00a0 It&#8217;s Nothing Day and for the second week in a row, I am posting! &nbsp; Big news of the week is that I have a new date planned.\u00a0 The previous date was missed because (1) my would-be date was sick and (b) she could not log into Facebook to find the [&hellip;]<\/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:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}