{"id":295,"date":"2005-03-11T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2005-03-11T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T08:27:00","slug":"295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/295\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[Shoot all the super heroes from your skies]<\/b><br \/>I. I always thought that I would cry if I ever got pulled over. Well, I didn&#8217;t. And I still got off pretty easy, considering I was doing 67 in a 55, yacking away on my cell phone with Cox at friggin&#8217; midnight. And I didn&#8217;t have my license. Well, I had it, but I didn&#8217;t know I had it because I couldn&#8217;t find it in my cavernous key-eating behemoth purse. Anyway, I won&#8217;t know how much the ticket is for a week or so, but I&#8217;m betting it&#8217;s going to hurt.<\/p>\n<p>II. Why does Maxis bring out and pander to the obsessive micromanager in all of us? I don&#8217;t know, but I love them for it. Granted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simcity4.com\">Sim City 4<\/a> is no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesims2.com\">Sims<\/a>, but it&#8217;s got all my attention this week. What&#8217;s unfortunate is the only way it&#8217;s actually fun is if you cheat like crazy. It&#8217;s either line your coffers with free money, or watch your budget plummet and your city stagnate at the ghetto level. <\/p>\n<p>III. Kristin and Jimmy are coming to visit this weekend, and Amber and Whitney are coming next week. A blitzbomb of excitement for our lonely little household, finally.<\/p>\n<p>IV. Phil is getting sick again. Which means I&#8217;ll be getting sick again. <\/p>\n<p>V. There&#8217;s this modest little used bookstore near the apartment that I plan to make a weekly ritual. The other day I got <b>Checkpoint<\/b> (Baker), <b>The Poisonwood Bible<\/b> (Kingsolver), <b>Fury<\/b> (Rushdie), <b>Alias Grace<\/b> (Atwood), and <b>Lake Wobegon Days<\/b> (Keillor) for about $4 each. I finished <b>Checkpoint<\/b> (pretty good) and started <b>Poisonwood<\/b>, which is really, really good. Of course, these were completely unnecessary purchases. Not only do we not have room for them, but I already have about 20 books I&#8217;ve borrowed or bought but have yet to begin. If that&#8217;s my biggest problem in life, I&#8217;m doing OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Shoot all the super heroes from your skies]I. I always thought that I would cry if I ever got pulled over. Well, I didn&#8217;t. And I still got off pretty easy, considering I was doing 67 in a 55, yacking away on my cell phone with Cox at friggin&#8217; midnight. And I didn&#8217;t have my license. Well, I had it, but I didn&#8217;t know I had it because I couldn&#8217;t find it in my cavernous&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-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-295","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}