{"id":250,"date":"2003-09-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/09\/02\/days-of-labor\/"},"modified":"2003-09-02T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-02T11:59:00","slug":"days-of-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/09\/02\/days-of-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a long weekend. A pretty good one in a lot of ways, but long nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, <a href=\"http:\/\/raininva.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">raininva<\/a> left for DragonCon to do some contracting for WizKids. Thursday night, after my afternoon nap, I yanked half of my office out into the living room for sorting and re-arrangement. I ended up with a huge plastic storage tub full of gaming stuff that I don&#8217;t want to get rid of, but I don&#8217;t have room for in the office. That went to the storage along with another tub of loose items; several empty boxes that were just wasting cubic went to the trash, along with two bags full of stuff that just wasn&#8217;t doing anyone any good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Friday through Monday-->Friday, I went straight from work to South Carolina to see Jo and Erin. I don&#8217;t think I was as much fun to be with as I&#8217;d have liked to be&#8230; the drive really took more out of me than I&#8217;d thought it would &#8211; I think I didn&#8217;t sleep well Thursday night (empty bed and all). I-77 had one of those &#8220;everyone slows to 5 mph for an hour&#8221; spots, and there didn&#8217;t seem to be any reason for it &#8211; no accident, no flooded road, nothing I could find.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, I headed back. Jo and Kirk and Erin&#8217;s household contains seven kids, and I think that the two ladies would have gladly stowed away in my trunk had they the chance. There was another &#8220;everyone slows to 5 mph for an hour for no visible reason&#8221; spot on I-77, and two torrential downpours to navigate through. Saturday afternoon consisted of another nap, and the evening was spent on the computer: archiving files to free hard drive space, hooking up a Lexmark printer-scanner, and playing &#8220;A Mess of Trouble&#8221; and &#8220;No One Lives Forever&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/shrewlet.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shrewlet<\/a> helped me move the tubs to storage, then I headed up to her place for dinner. Saw the new &#8220;Duck Dodgers&#8221; cartoon on Cartoon Network &#8211; pretty funny stuff, in fact; I noticed that one of the writers is one of the Batman Animated writers.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, I didn&#8217;t feel too well at all. I slumped on the sofa for some time watching a few episodes of &#8220;American Chopper&#8221; and hoping to feel better, but It didn&#8217;t help much. I went by my mom&#8217;s for a bit, then went home and tried to pick up the place a little for Rain&#8217;s return. I didn&#8217;t accomplish what I was shooting for there either.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Rain will be home when I get home &#8211; and I&#8217;m really glad to know that. I missed her terribly!! Welcome home, sweetie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a long weekend. A pretty good one in a lot of ways, but long nevertheless. Thursday, raininva left for DragonCon to do some contracting for WizKids. Thursday night, after my afternoon nap, I yanked half of my office out into the living room for sorting and re-arrangement. 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