{"id":682,"date":"2011-09-30T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=682"},"modified":"2011-09-30T20:54:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:54:02","slug":"nothing-day-better-date-transportation-poetry-zip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Day! (Better, Date, Transportation, Poetry — Zip!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry I did not post yesterday.\u00a0 Readjusting to long days \/ weeks, and simply never managed to post.\u00a0 On the bright side, I did<\/em> have a nice, long work week.\u00a0 No sick days, no days off, nothing like that.\u00a0 I am scraping for money right now, but next week’s paycheck should be nice.<\/p>\n

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Overall, then, it’s been a better week than last week.\u00a0 I have a hard drive which is slowly and painfully dying, but next week’s paycheck will fix that.\u00a0 This means a slight change in hard drive plans.\u00a0 I had originally planned for my next drive to be a 4 TB drive, but that’s not available yet and I need a replacement drive now<\/strong>.\u00a0 I wanted to have a 1, a 2, a 4, an 8 and a 16 TB drive as the tech improved and made the bigger options available.\u00a0 Well, tech hasn’t been going as fast–not doubling like I hoped it would–so I will go for 2, 3, 4, etc., dropping the 1 TB as it is dying and I don’t feel like getting an exact replacement.<\/p>\n

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One of the really bright bits of this week is that I have a Date tonight.\u00a0 She is about half my age–yes, I am old enough for that to mean she’s very much legal for me to date–and she’s a sweetheart.\u00a0 She works at an Arby’s, which is where I met her, so I will call her Ar here.\u00a0 The plan is a little vague but I am thinking dinner and a movie.\u00a0 I’ll let you know next week how that went.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, a few positive things on the transportation front.\u00a0 I have borrowed a church friend’s van for a couple of weeks, and that has been extremely helpful.\u00a0 In theory, her son reclaims it on Monday; I’ll find out for sure on Sunday I am thinking.\u00a0 A different church friend is selling me a scooter at a really good price, so I will either not go transportation-less or be transportationless for only a short time.\u00a0 I will be test riding the scooter in a little bit, but I have seen pictures and I already like it.\u00a0 It’s red, my favorite color!\u00a0 It’s Chinese, which means maintenance will be a challenge, but nothing I can’t manage somehow.\u00a0 Also, a friend of yet another church friend may have a car for sale.\u00a0 I’ll pass on more about that when I learn more about it.<\/p>\n

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Finally, here’s this week’s poem:<\/p>\n

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****<\/p>\n

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Zip!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Zipping here
\nZipping there
\nZipping zipping
\nEverywhere<\/p>\n

Never slowing down
\nNever stopping
\nNever never
\nGetting anywhere<\/p>\n

I want to see the sights
\nI want to have it all
\nI I I I
\nThink I’m getting dizzy<\/p>\n

All this running around
\nAll this madness
\nAll all all all
\nThe time is tiring<\/p>\n

Can I take a break
\nCan I find some rest
\nCan can can can
\nWe agree on this?<\/p>\n

The world isn’t the same
\nThe world is a hectic place
\nThe world the world
\nNeeds to chill<\/p>\n

But still we go zipping around
\nBut still we never stop
\nBut but but but
\nMoving too fast will be our end<\/p>\n

Let’s slow down
\nWe can rest a while
\nI know a place to go
\nEveryone can find their smile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry I did not post yesterday.\u00a0 Readjusting to long days \/ weeks, and simply never managed to post.\u00a0 On the bright side, I did have a nice, long work week.\u00a0 No sick days, no days off, nothing like that.\u00a0 I am scraping for money right now, but next week’s paycheck should be nice.   Overall, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}