{"id":9321,"date":"2026-01-15T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2026-01-15T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:13:40","slug":"fired-up-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/fired-up-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired up for Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried again to get out of the house in time for a Hardee&#8217;s breakfast, but settled for Burger King instead. It wasn&#8217;t bad, but I still miss Hardee&#8217;s biscuits. We got to work and immediately started getting emails about signatures that were mostly due to not following my very simple and thorough instructions. I tinkered with that for a while, and then kept busy with a few other new things. I was so engaged that we actually took lunch nearly an hour late. I just picked up some Subway and we sat in the office to eat and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The afternoon was short after that, though it surprisingly didn&#8217;t go by particularly fast. I started to climb up into the ceiling and immediately encountered some huge rat poop, so without a proper ladder, I immediately gave up on relocating the hallway access point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We eventually made it back to an empty house, and I decided to chop some wood and start a fire. As I walked outside, Neal called for some computer advise. It was a typical goofy situation with no real way to provide valuable feedback, so I just chopped wood while talking to him through my earbuds. There were a couple logs that split super easily, and a couple more that I struggled with before setting aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire caught fairly easily with my cheater log, but it was a while before Summer got home. I got the TV ambilight set back up, and when she finally had her shower, I put on <em>Mickey 17<\/em>. She was completely disinterested, so we sat and drank until she went to bed. Then I finished the movie by myself before going to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried again to get out of the house in time for a Hardee&#8217;s breakfast, but settled for Burger King instead. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,33,71,27],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-disappointment","tag-movie","tag-sad","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}