{"id":3805,"date":"2010-03-07T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2010-03-07T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T04:09:18","slug":"well-that-was-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4416151664\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2697\/4416151664_df0a0eb6c8.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So anyway, that&#8217;s the weekend done with.<\/p>\n<p>At yesterday&#8217;s blood drive, I learned that there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcelladvantage.com\/\">a point system<\/a>, where you earn for each donation and can then trade those points in for valuable prizes online. The NY Blood Center sent me an e-mail this morning to confirm this, as well as to thank me for giving blood yesterday. I don&#8217;t do it for gifts, which is good, because I&#8217;d have to donate more regularly, and probably for several long decades, before I&#8217;d earn enough for even the smallest of prizes. I&#8217;m at 75 points right now, plus whatever I earned yesterday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rewards.plateletadvantage.com\/item\/2063271\/\">a box of 100 self-sealed business envelopes<\/a>, for instance &#8212; a featured item &#8212; is worth 445 points. So it&#8217;s going to be a few more hundred thousand pints before I rack up enough points to do any real damage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, today was pretty uneventful. I went for a short walk, since the weather was still so nice, and I struggled to finish the <i>New York Times<\/i> crossword puzzle. (I still haven&#8217;t, and probably won&#8217;t, but I did at least get all the theme answers. I also watched a short British miniseries called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murderland\">Murderland<\/a>. It was okay, though not at all remarkable, and Robbie Coltrane seems pretty wasted in it, honestly. <\/p>\n<p>I could be watching the Oscars, I suppose &#8212; I even have a kind-of pseudo-Oscar pool running with a friend of mine &#8212; but our cable company dropped ABC first thing this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/08\/business\/media\/08scramble.html\">in a contract dispute over money<\/a>. (Why <i>either<\/i> of them should be getting money for a broadcast channel I&#8217;m not entirely sure, but that&#8217;s another story.) I didn&#8217;t feel like scouring the web for a shaky, bootleg live feed &#8212; which is apparently all there is to be had &#8212; and frankly, I didn&#8217;t really feel like watching what, from all the Twitter comments I keep getting, is shaping up to be an exceptionally boring show.<\/p>\n<p>So instead, I think I&#8217;m just going to go to bed. Although there&#8217;s no red carpet, no video montages, and nobody ever wants to know who designed my pajamas. Goodnight!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So anyway, that&#8217;s the weekend done with. At yesterday&#8217;s blood drive, I learned that there&#8217;s a point system, where you earn for each donation and can then trade those points in for valuable prizes online. The NY Blood Center sent me an e-mail this morning to confirm this, as well as to thank me for &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3805\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,17],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}