{"id":12607,"date":"2014-04-22T00:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T07:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2014-04-22T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T07:18:33","slug":"personal-update4222014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/personal-update4222014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;4\/22\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hate few things more than wasting a day, but that is what I\u2019ve done today.&#160; I waited the whole half hour for my lift bus to arrive and take me to my medical appointment.&#160; They didn\u2019t show up so I called.&#160; They apologized and said they were running late.&#160; I waited another twenty minutes and called again.&#160; They said they came to my address and were told I did not live there.&#160; They had sent my ride to my old address, although I have told them I have moved no fewer than five separate times.&#160; They told me there was nothing they could do, because the bus had moved on and was no longer in the neighborhood.&#160; I called the doctor\u2019s office several times but could get only a recording.&#160; He must have given his scheduling staff the day after Easter off.&#160; I left a message, but have no idea if it got through, so I may be charged for a missed appointment, which my insurance will not cover.&#160; To make matters worse, I had awakened at 3:00 AM to deal with an equestrian necessity, and knowing my penchant for sleeping through alarm clocks, I opted to stay up and clean house.&#160; So I was pooped.&#160; However, I was too tired and too irritated to sleep.&#160; I lay in bed and tossed and turned, finally falling asleep late in the day.&#160; I feel frustrated over a wasted day.&#160; ARGH!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:50 (average 4:56).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-04-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet it\u2019s a Republican. \ud83d\ude41<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0422MIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0422MIA\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0422MIA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0422MIA_thumb.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate few things more than wasting a day, but that is what I\u2019ve done today.&#160; I waited the whole half hour for my lift bus to arrive and take me to my medical appointment.&#160; They didn\u2019t show up so I called.&#160; They apologized and said they were running late.&#160; I waited another twenty minutes <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/personal-update4222014\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}