{"id":3673,"date":"2006-04-20T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/04\/20\/random-thursday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:09:36","slug":"random-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/04\/20\/random-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were discussing the Gazette over coffee and dessert last night and I mentioned that I was having a &#8220;creative block&#8221; (whatever <em>that<\/em> means) and a friend asked if that was the real reason for the lack of posts, rather than the workload as I had indicated. I told her that those things went hand-in-hand. When I&#8217;m overloaded on the work side of things, that tends to suck dry what little creativity I have to begin with, leaving nothing for blogging&#8230;except for posts like this which serve no purpose other than to assure (or warn, as the case may be) folks that I&#8217;m still capable of random acts of keyboarding.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I, for one, am happy to hear that <a title=\"MyWestTexas.com: Grocery store planning to expand\" href=\"http:\/\/mywesttexas.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16507385&amp;BRD=2288&amp;PAG=461&amp;dept_id=475626&amp;rfi=6\">our local H-E-B is expanding<\/a>. &lt;hgtv&gt;Maybe that will mean that it&#8217;ll finally have the shelf space to carry the Bounty Select-A-Size Paper Towels with the blue floral print that matches our tile backsplash. I&#8217;m sick up to <em>here<\/em> with having to settle for institutional white.&lt;\/hgtv&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We finally watched <em>The Wedding Crashers<\/em>, courtesy of NetFlix, and the thing that really struck me was&#8230;was that Dwight Yoakam playing the husband in the opening divorce settlement scene? Why, yes&#8230;<a title=\"IMDB.com\" href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0948267\/\">yes, it was<\/a>. It reinforces Dwight&#8217;s lock on the category of The Actor Who Most Desperately Needs To Continue Wearing A Cowboy Hat Pulled Down Over His Eyes. Plus, I didn&#8217;t realize that he was born in Kentucky; he pulls off the Bakersfield, CA act so convincingly, you know?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It rained today, and is still drizzling a bit at this moment. About a half inch so far, at least in our backyard, and I&#8217;m reminded of why rain makes things look so fresh and green in Midland: we get used to dust covering all the plants and grass. (Let&#8217;s just keep that our little secret; no need to bring the Chamber of Commerce into this, hmm?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><acronym title=\"My Lovely Bride\">MLB<\/acronym> was called out for Emergency Clothing Rental duty Tuesday night, as The Nephew apparently realized that time was growing short for him to acquire a tux for this weekend&#8217;s prom. She found him and a friend standing outside the rental store in the mall, sporting deer-in-the-headlight looks. <em>Have you already found what you want<\/em>, she asked. <em>No&#8230;we had to come out here because they started asking us all these questions we couldn&#8217;t answer<\/em>, he replied. <em>Like what?<\/em> she asked. <em>Like, what do I want?<\/em> was his reply.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, it wasn&#8217;t much, but it was something. And sometimes, that&#8217;s the best we can hope for. Peace out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random acts of keyboarding<\/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-3673","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\/3673","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=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6452,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/6452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}