{"id":9925,"date":"2026-07-13T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=9925"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:48:53","slug":"its-a-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/its-a-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My shower wasn&#8217;t great with a messed up diverter this morning, but it could have been worse. It was still better than a hotel shower by a huge margin. We got to work, and things were again pretty quiet. I spent a large part of the morning troubleshooting a weird Start Menu issue where it keeps reverting back to category view. I found several articles mentioning group policy, but I couldn&#8217;t find anything similar that would have affected it in Intune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took a really late lunch and ended up at Wendy&#8217;s for a spicy chicken sandwich in a <em>Minions &amp; Monsters<\/em> meal. For some reason they felt the need to serve it to me piecemeal, so I got my Frosty first. Then I got fries. Finally, my sandwich was delivered to my table. I guess at least the food was fresh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The afternoon went by fairly quickly just because I ate so late. I had a sudden anxiety attack that didn&#8217;t linger too long, and then we made it home. Eaddie had received my Steam Machine that Johnny let me order, so I had been looking forward to opening that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer got home shortly after I did, and I unboxed my new computer while she showered. I had to tinker with my home theater again, because for some reason there was no sound coming out of the subwoofer. Once I got everything set up, Summer decided she wanted Taco Villa for dinner, so Muad&#8217;Dib and I went to pick that up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We ate, and then she went to bed. I cleaned all the stuff out of my car so I can leave it at the body shop, and made it to bed on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Now what?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My shower wasn&#8217;t great with a messed up diverter this morning, but it could have been worse. It was still better than [&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":[23,96,36,39,53,78,27],"class_list":["post-9925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anxiety","tag-dog","tag-food","tag-gaming","tag-health","tag-model-3","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925","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=9925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9927,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}