{"id":7490,"date":"2011-10-10T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2011-10-10T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T02:38:07","slug":"a-paid-non-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7490","title":{"rendered":"A paid non-holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5105968017\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1141\/5105968017_27e79b0165.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some you, today was Columbus Day. For some, it was Thanksgiving. For me, it was pretty much just a regular Monday.<\/p>\n<p>They upgraded me to Windows 7 at work, which is a weird coincidence given that I&#8217;d only just seen it for the first time this Saturday when my parents&#8217; new computer arrived. I think I can give it a resounding &#8220;Ehh, I guess it&#8217;s okay.&#8221; I&#8217;m less annoyed by some the cosmetic changes than by the things, like my internet bookmarks, that were lost in the transition.<\/p>\n<p>At least I got my Portal 2 password working again.<\/p>\n<p>The trains home&#8230;well, not so much. More &#8220;signal problems&#8221; delayed my train about forty minutes. Considering that I pay a little over $250 a month for a monthly ticket, and these sorts of problems are happening quite often, with little indication that the Long Island Railroad is prepared to do anything but slap a Band-Aid on after the fact, it&#8217;s quite aggravating. At least the train was reasonably uncrowded this evening.<\/p>\n<p>You know, with all the people for whom today was a holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some you, today was Columbus Day. For some, it was Thanksgiving. For me, it was pretty much just a regular Monday. They upgraded me to Windows 7 at work, which is a weird coincidence given that I&#8217;d only just seen it for the first time this Saturday when my parents&#8217; new computer arrived. I &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7490\">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":[35,28,75,52],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-games","tag-personal","tag-travel","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490"}],"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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}