{"id":3038,"date":"2009-07-15T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2009-07-15T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T08:01:40","slug":"remind-me-to-buy-a-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/remind-me-to-buy-a-lottery-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Remind me to buy a lottery ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s adventure was trying to catch up on a spreadsheet that I kept getting interrupted while trying to understand while chained to my cubicle walls.  Meanwhile, M. got a night call from his manager with some out of office strategizing.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any surprise that all I want to do is go to the beach near our house.  Sadly, it&#8217;s the house we must pay for every month with our meager, or at least not nearly enough zeroes on the checks, earnings.  If I can&#8217;t have a life of leisure, I&#8217;ll grab the leisure I can get.<\/p>\n<p>It would all be so much less painful if I were filthy, fucking rich.  The kind of money in which scandals and embarrassments abound and countless generations of stupid and degenerate.  I want that kind of dough.  I want to douche with Chateau Neuf du Pape.  OK, maybe I&#8217;d just drink that.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, my vacation from this level of workaday horror is more <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low-end_fortified_wine\">Ripple<\/a> and less <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=biarritz&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;split=0&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=Lo1dStatLZKasgP6pMSwCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1\">Biarritz.<\/a>  Shit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.plateoftheday.com\/food_blog\/nightTrainNThunderbird.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.plateoftheday.com\/food_blog\/nightTrainNThunderbird.gif','popup','width=425,height=384,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/nighttrainnthunderbird-tm.jpg?resize=300%2C271\" height=\"271\" width=\"300\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Nighttrainnthunderbird\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/money\" rel=\"tag\">money<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/life\" rel=\"tag\">life<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/work\" rel=\"tag\">work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/remind-me-to-buy-a-lottery-ticket\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s adventure was trying to catch up on a spreadsheet that I kept getting interrupted while trying to understand while chained to my cubicle walls. Meanwhile, M. got a night call from his manager with some out of office strategizing. Is it any surprise that all I want to do is go to the beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-N0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}