{"id":741,"date":"2010-08-18T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/18\/the-hump-day-report\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:50:00","slug":"the-hump-day-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/18\/the-hump-day-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hump Day Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up early-ish this morning to take Tye to the vet for another ECG (result: he responded normally to atropine, so apparently he just has a slow resting heart rate), then played hooky in the afternoon to go see <i>Scott Pilgrim vs. the World<\/i>&#8211;which, as I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sparCKL\/status\/21528328436\">tweeted<\/a>, <b>totally f**king rocked or whatever and stuff.<\/b>  Go see it.  You&#8217;ll be happy you did.<\/p>\n<p>Finished a puzzle prototype for next month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a>, met my <a href=\"http:\/\/sparckl.livejournal.com\/129056.html\">writing<\/a> quota for the day, then did a bit of research on <a href=\"http:\/\/misterhouse.sourceforge.net\/\">home automation<\/a>.  D helped me locate a stash of X10 hardware&#8211;the appliance modules are what I was looking for&#8211;so I only had to order the computer interface module (which, mercifully, now uses USB instead of RS232) in order to have all the hardware we need to switch the cats&#8217; auto-feeder over to full computer control.<\/p>\n<p>Now D&#8217;s playing <i>Dragon Age: Origins &#8211; Awakenings<\/i> while she continues to recover from last week&#8217;s migraine, and I&#8217;m going to see what&#8217;s playing on Netflix streaming&#8211;which, amazingly, hasn&#8217;t totally sucked the last few times I&#8217;ve tried it.  Though tonight I think I&#8217;ll pick something a little less depressing than <i>No End in Sight<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up early-ish this morning to take Tye to the vet for another ECG (result: he responded normally to atropine, so apparently he just has a slow resting heart rate), then played hooky in the afternoon to go see Scott&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[64,13,3,59,27,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky","category-movies","category-overshare","category-puzzledpint","category-puzzles","category-sci-tech","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}