{"id":329,"date":"2010-08-13T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/08\/13\/100813_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:55:27","slug":"100813_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/08\/13\/100813_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday &#8211; The Friday the 13th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s already Friday. Seems like yesterday it was only, well, Thursday. Anyway, before we get too cocky, don&#8217;t forget that it&#8217;s only three days until Monday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m sorry, but if you&#8217;re intentionally running your sprinkler system on an established lawn in the middle of a West Texas August afternoon, you&#8217;re either ignorant or an idiot*. I can help solve the ignorance (it&#8217;s simple&#8230;quit doing it!) but I&#8217;m afraid there&#8217;s no cure for the latter. Water&#8217;s just too precious out here to be wasting 30-40% of it to evaporation.\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\"><i>*If there&#8217;s a third option, please enlighten us. As I said, ignorance is curable.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I just finished a bike ride, managing to get out before the heat of the day (but not beating the humidity!). Fifteen miles in 50 minutes, meaning that I hit my normal goal of an 18 mph average. Could have been faster if it weren&#8217;t for all those pesky cars that made me stop at intersections. Anyway, the highlight of the ride was on the return leg, with a slight tailwind and smooth pavement, and catching a draft behind a UPS truck; I hit 28.5 mph and beat a BMW SUV to the neighborhood turn-in.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">A TV show entitled <i>World of Whitetail<\/i> is on Versus as I type this. This is a hunting show, focusing on whitetail deer. I&#8217;ve never watched it before, but I confess that I fail to find it riveting. As much as I intellectually understand the importance of hunting deer, watching as a bullet hits a trophy buck and seeing him drop and twitch until his heart stops (or, worse, run off into the brush before dying) makes me slightly nauseous. Of course, I can&#8217;t watch <i>Bambi<\/i>, either, so perhaps I&#8217;m emotionally flawed. (The kill I just saw was made worse by the fact that the deer was strolling down the middle of a dirt road when the fatal shot arrived from a nearby blind. The sporting aspects of that seem to escape me.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stuffchristianslike.net\/\"><i>Stuff Christians Like<\/i><\/a> has turned into my new favorite blog, although I detest the writer, Jon Acuff, because he&#8217;s so talented and funny, and, really, nobody likes those people. But you should read his advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffchristianslike.net\/2010\/08\/trying-to-find-a-new-church\/\">&#8220;Trying to find a new church,&#8221;<\/a> especially if the one time you visited my personal church there was someone dancing with a snake. That was an anomaly. Really. It&#8217;s usually an iguana.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">In closing, this morning on <i>The Today Show<\/i>, during a report on the plane crash that took the life of former Alaskan senator Ted Stevens and several others, the reporter told us that &#8220;&#8230;accidents are a way of life in Alaska.&#8221; Finally&#8230;a cogent explanation for Levi Johnston!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s already Friday. Seems like yesterday it was only, well, Thursday. Anyway, before we get too cocky, don&#8217;t forget that it&#8217;s only three days until Monday. I&#8217;m sorry, but if you&#8217;re intentionally running your sprinkler system on an established lawn in the middle of a West Texas August afternoon, you&#8217;re either ignorant or&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/08\/13\/100813_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday &#8211; The Friday the 13th Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9023,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/9023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}