{"id":988,"date":"2009-01-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/01\/02\/watching-the-what-now\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T09:30:00","slug":"watching-the-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2009\/01\/02\/watching-the-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My exciting New Year&#8217;s: no party, no fancy dinner. I didn&#8217;t feel well, so we stayed home to watch the ball drop on one of the excruciating network New Year&#8217;s shows. We waited for the countdown to start&#8230; and waited&#8230; and waited&#8230; and looked at the clock to notice that it had somehow become 12:22. Yes, we fell asleep waiting for New Year&#8217;s. Such a hardcore life we lead, eh?<\/p>\n<p>I repeat what I said last year: if I&#8217;m planning to party or otherwise celebrate late into the evening, I&#8217;m at a point in life where an afternoon nap would be a wise preparation &#8211; especially if I&#8217;d gotten up at 5:30am that day to go to work.<\/p>\n<p>Slept until almost noon on the 1st, because I&#8217;m still exhausted from last weekend. (Possibly from all of December.) Starr had to work, so after lunch I headed to Bert and Meche&#8217;s, where they got a game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/munchkinquest\/\" target=\"_new\">Munchkin Quest<\/a> going. I&#8217;m glad they have it, because I want to play it again, but this time I don&#8217;t have to buy a copy. It looks like an average game might well be 4-5 hours, though we had some non-gamer types at the board, which slowed things down a touch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to say that my New Year&#8217;s Resolution is &#8220;1280 x 1024, 32-bit color at 60hz&#8221;. But in fact, the personal-improvement things I hope to accomplish this year are to keep trying to lose some spare tire, improve my education and my earning power, and do more non-journally writing. I&#8217;m especially unhappy with my writing output in 2008; I&#8217;ve stared at a lot of empty text files this year. That will be changing.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My exciting New Year&#8217;s: no party, no fancy dinner. I didn&#8217;t feel well, so we stayed home to watch the ball drop on one of the excruciating network New Year&#8217;s shows. We waited for the countdown to start&#8230; and waited&#8230; and waited&#8230; and looked at the clock to notice that it had somehow become 12:22. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,8,49,62,13,17],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-exercise","tag-friends","tag-gaming","tag-sleep","tag-work","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-fW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}