{"id":5949,"date":"2011-02-02T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T02:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2011-02-02T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T01:17:24","slug":"taking-off-on-wednesday-is-just-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5949","title":{"rendered":"Taking off on Wednesday is just weird."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I woke up at six this morning, only to learn that, yes indeed, we’d had a freezing rain overnight, and it had played havoc with the morning commute. The Long Island Railroad was running weekend hours all morning — albeit at the regular, weekday morning peak fares — and at my station, weekend hours means no more than one train every hour. They were also predicting ten to fifteen-minute delays, which itself usually means twenty to thirty-minute delays. So, after much deliberating, I decided to send an e-mail around to my group at work and take a vacation day.<\/p>\n

After that, the day was actually fine, especially after I discovered that Groundhog Day<\/i> was available for streaming over Netflix. It just seemed like the right choice for today. I spent the rest of the day mostly reading, finishing a couple of graphic novels (The Alcoholic<\/i> by Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel, and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge<\/i> by Josh Neufeld, both quite good). I also watched last week’s episode of Community<\/i>, which I hadn’t seen yet, and the first episode of Quantum Leap<\/i>, which I haven’t seen in years. It was really just a random, lay-about-the-house kind of day.<\/p>\n

That said, I’m really<\/i> kind of sick of snow at this point, particularly snow that ruins my morning commute. (Enough snow to close<\/i> my office and keep me home without<\/i> taking vacation? Well, we can talk.) I’m actually kind of looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Taking off on Wednesday is just weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up at six this morning, only to learn that, yes indeed, we’d had a freezing rain overnight, and it had played havoc with the morning commute. The Long Island Railroad was running weekend hours all morning — albeit at the regular, weekday morning peak fares — and at my station, weekend hours means … 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":[16,20,152,14,28,75,17,52],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-long-island","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-travel","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949"}],"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=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}