{"id":8966,"date":"2014-10-15T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/?p=8966"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:51:22","slug":"halfway-to-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2014\/10\/15\/halfway-to-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway to Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught about 15 minutes worth of a documentary about the Cowsills this morning. If you&#8217;re my age or older, then you know who they were and if you&#8217;re much younger than that (like Google Chrome spellchecker, apparently), then you don&#8217;t. I&#8217;d say they to the Partridge Family as the Beatles were to the Monkees, except you probably wouldn&#8217;t know who the hell the Partridge Family was either (plus however they came into being, the Monkees actually had some good stuff, whereas the Partridge Family, not so much). <\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I had no idea that Bud &#8220;daddy&#8221; Cowsill was such a dick, but apparently he was. I had to leave just as the grown up (by that I mean &#8220;old&#8221;) Cowsills were getting ready to sing the National Anthem or something at Fenway Park, and one Cowsill was being a dick to another Cowsill because the second one apparently wasn&#8217;t singing right. Or something. I dunno, I was trying to get ready for work.<\/p>\n<p>I also watched an hour or so of Ron Howard&#8217;s &#8220;Rush,&#8221; which is about the Formula One rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. I&#8217;ll be honest, auto racing isn&#8217;t a subject I&#8217;m particularly interested in (though if I was going to pay attention to any of it, it would be Formula One &#8211; though the couple of times I went to DIRT races, it was fun watching them kick all that dust and dirt everywhere). When I was a kid, they used to have Figure Eight races on the Wide World of Sports, and got a kick out of them and the demolition derby.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, what I saw of the movie was really good, and I may have to watch it from beginning to end one of these days. I&#8217;d also like to google Suzy Sparkle, just &#8216;cuz I love the name. Unfortunately, I was experiencing network difficulties last night, which I mostly tracked down to a bad cable this morning (upon further review, I&#8217;m expecting to find mouse-related damage &#8211; further strengthening my resolve to wage all-out war, if not genocide on the little bastards).<\/p>\n<p>So now I have network connectivity to my home office for my Genie Mini, PlayStation, and Roku &#8211; but sadly there still seems to be an issue at my main computer. Which I&#8217;ll need to fuck around with some more tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I picked a good time to give up giving up drinking (though to be honest, I gave giving that up a while ago).<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as we&#8217;re all gonna die horrible deaths from Ebola, what&#8217;s the point in abstaining?<\/p>\n<p>As usually happens, this four-day week is proving to be a long one. I&#8217;m not sure how all this time warp stuff works, but yesterday felt like Monday all day long, so I should technically be a day ahead. But today for some reason feels like Thursday (I even keep checking the calendar to make sure), so I&#8217;m mentally a day behind. It&#8217;s like I have to work six days instead of five (never mind four).<\/p>\n<p>It just aint right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught about 15 minutes worth of a documentary about the Cowsills this morning. If you&#8217;re my age or older, then you know who they were and if you&#8217;re much younger than that (like Google Chrome spellchecker, apparently), then you don&#8217;t. I&#8217;d say they to the Partridge Family as the Beatles were to the Monkees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8966\/revisions\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}