{"id":205,"date":"2004-11-10T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2004-11-10T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T04:15:00","slug":"205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/205\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[A working-class hero is something to be]<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>Buying a computer is harder than I thought. I just spent 15 minutes on a conference call with Irene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> and my dad. The outcome? Tomorrow I have to call and beg yet another bank to give me a $2,000 loan.<\/p>\n<p>+++<br \/>\n<br \/>I got some xmas shopping out of the way today. Until Thursday, Dillard&#8217;s is giving their employees an extra 20 percent off of stuff. We already get a 25 percent discount, so I can get some pretty cool stuff for reasonable prices. And by &#8220;pretty cool stuff&#8221; I mean 310-count luxury sheets that I&#8217;ve been drooling over since they stocked the shelves with them. Phil and I just got them out of the dryer. They&#8217;re warm and fragrant and it&#8217;s hard for me not to just call it a day and go crawl into them right now. Oh yeah, I got stuff for other people, too. But I can&#8217;t say what.<\/p>\n<p>+++<br \/>\n<br \/>I got a call today from someone with a 917 prefix, which, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/SouthBeach\/Marina\/9505\/areacode.html\">this site<\/a>, is the prefix for Manhattan cell phones and pagers. I only know two people who live in New York, and they would have either called me from their phones or left me a message. Was it the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span> calling to beg me to work for them?<\/p>\n<p>+++<br \/>\n<br \/>We took Gonzo to the vet today and learned that he probably has adrenal gland disease, a pretty common disorder in aging ferrets. It makes their hair fall out and, from what I gather, will eventually kill them if left untreated. Gonz has been losing hair for a month or so, and I was afraid it might be adrenal gland problems. There are two options. One: A $250 ultrasound that can let the vet look at the glands to see if they&#8217;re abnormally large, and if they are, he&#8217;s got to have surgery that will be at least $500. Two: To forgo the ultrasound and go straight to surgery, which will let the doctor poke around in his innards to make sure they&#8217;re in top shape. Either way, it&#8217;ll be costly and not necessarily entirely effective. I&#8217;m just worried about him and don&#8217;t want him to get any sicker. I hate knowing that they only live for seven years or so, and they&#8217;re already three and a half.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A working-class hero is something to be] Buying a computer is harder than I thought. I just spent 15 minutes on a conference call with Irene from Apple and my dad. The outcome? Tomorrow I have to call and beg yet another bank to give me a $2,000 loan. +++ I got some xmas shopping out of the way today. Until Thursday, Dillard&#8217;s is giving their employees an extra 20 percent off of stuff. We&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-205","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}