{"id":9915,"date":"2026-07-10T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:55:10","slug":"time-wasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/time-wasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Wasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been a ton of police on the roads lately, and I saw an article about Arkansas joining a national campaign against speeders. I just sit back and let the car do its thing. I spent an inordinate amount of time fighting limitations in Exchange and Outlook today. I had a call right after lunch, so we went to Sonic a little bit early. I wasn&#8217;t super hungry, but I got their usual deal and burned my mouth on some cheddar peppers. An older lady came up and offered Muad&#8217;Dib her leftovers, but I didn&#8217;t expect to see her pull out half of a hamburger and nearly a whole large order of tots. He made quick work of all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our call was short, and I eventually got all 124 emails sent out manually since mail merge won&#8217;t work to send from a group address. We ended up leaving just a hair late, but it was a quick drive home. We stopped at the shop to see Summer, who had been at it for an extra long day. She had a call-in and had to close, so we headed home after a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer said she wanted pasta for dinner, so I expected her to get home and take her out for dinner after she had a shower. She did not expect that for some reason, but I talked her into putting on some clothes. We went to my parents&#8217; house to drop off Muad&#8217;Dib, and they were both working on some leftover spaghetti. We ended up coming in to help finish it off, instead of going out to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we got back home, I just went to my office for the rest of the night until bed. Summer has a run in Barling in the morning, so I won&#8217;t see her until she gets back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Every one.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a ton of police on the roads lately, and I saw an article about Arkansas joining a national campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,29,36,66,71,27],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-depression","tag-family","tag-food","tag-frustration","tag-sad","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","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=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}