{"id":2145,"date":"2009-03-01T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2020-11-28T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T23:26:47","slug":"hobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/01\/hobbyist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbyist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I notice that I haven&#8217;t been posting all that much lately. What can I say? February tends to emphasize to me that life is short &#8230; a short month full of short days &#8230; so I spent more time doing rather than documenting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caught up at home this weekend, and it&#8217;s been really nice. I was in Texas two weeks ago, and Virginia last week. Got down to see my dad at the farm for a day, and then played with my petabyte scale storage. When I got off the plane in Boston around 9pm on Friday, I was greeting by a grinning car filled with <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technolope.livejournal.com\/\">technolope<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/capital_l.livejournal.com\/\">capital_l<\/a>. The stated plan, unless I had a problem with it, was to go back to our apartment, drink wine, and play video games. We wound up sitting up until stupid:30 watching the fight scenes from several Jason Statham movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning, it was off to breakfast for them, and off to Judo for me. I managed to work in with the Texas A&amp;M judo team when I was there, and went back to <a href=\"http:\/\/hybridacademy.com\">Hybrid<\/a> last week. Both places are great &#8230; but nothing beats the home dojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also bottled 29 bottles of the 2008 white wine. This one came from a kit, and I think that I managed to get all the CO2 out of solution, by dint of a special adaptor on a power drill. Name suggestions for this vintage are solicited &#8230; though <a href=\"http:\/\/redmed.livejournal.com\/\">redmed<\/a> requests that they be &#8220;positive,&#8221; since we&#8217;re trying to mitigate our tendency to rip on ourselves over here. The specific example is the 2007 &#8220;You&#8217;ll Just Screw it Up&#8221;. I&#8217;m considering &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; and &#8220;Upper Middle Class, White&#8221;. Early reports indicate that it&#8217;s quite good, and needs some time to sit in the bottle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day proceeded, and wound up at the bar with <a href=\"http:\/\/simianpower.livejournal.com\/\">simianpower<\/a>, Len, and the wondertwins from Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was consumed with laundry, bills, listening to old-school Kid Rock and Emminem, and bottling 50 bottles of American Ale. Yes, indeedy, we&#8217;re preparing for <a href=\"http:\/\/snc-institute.org\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\">art weekend<\/a>. You ready, <a href=\"http:\/\/ect.livejournal.com\/\">ect<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now: Back to finishing my letter to Dr. Dobson, of Focus on the Family. I listened to one of his shows and God Damn if I don&#8217;t have the urge to write the man a letter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that I haven&#8217;t been posting all that much lately. What can I say? February tends to emphasize to me that life is short &#8230; a short month full of short days &#8230; so I spent more time doing rather than documenting. Caught up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin","category-real-life","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}