{"id":326,"date":"2004-06-21T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/06\/21\/hands-not-here\/"},"modified":"2004-06-21T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-21T09:45:00","slug":"hands-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2004\/06\/21\/hands-not-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand&#8217;s not here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to echo sentiments posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/snidegrrl.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">snidegrrl<\/a> a few months back: morning radio, shut up and play some damn music! I don&#8217;t mind headlines, I appreciate the weather, I can even deal with sports scores. But I don&#8217;t want to hear your views on welfare, library fines, or your cute little call-in battle of the sexes. Play some music! It&#8217;s your own fault that I&#8217;m not listening to your advertisers &#8211; I waited for 10 minutes, but finally gave up and switched over to my mp3 player which never makes me listen to anyone&#8217;s opinion.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it&#8217;s a cloudless, low-humidity 70 degrees this morning, so the start of the day isn&#8217;t all that bad. And I finally fixed the space bar on my work keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>One can play the Lord of the Rings CCG online, buying virtual starter decks and boosters and playing 24\/7 against people all over the globe. The tutorial is free, runs on OS X and Windows, and it looked like an easy way to learn the game, so I downloaded it. I&#8217;ve played 10 games, and been wiped out every time. Am I just not any good at collectible games? Does my brain just not have the correct logic paths? I know I&#8217;m a newbie playing against a computer, but still I thought I&#8217;d have won once. Or maybe even just barely lost. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>Entry-level Tolkien fans, save yourself some time! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/camwyn\/328358.html\" target=\"_new\">The Silmarillion in 1000 Words<\/a> Surprisingly accurate, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to echo sentiments posted by snidegrrl a few months back: morning radio, shut up and play some damn music! I don&#8217;t mind headlines, I appreciate the weather, I can even deal with sports scores. But I don&#8217;t want to hear your views on welfare, library fines, or your cute little call-in battle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,26,11,51],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-books","tag-lotr","tag-music","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-5g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}