{"id":923,"date":"2005-05-25T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T19:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/?p=923"},"modified":"2005-05-25T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T19:08:26","slug":"stay-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/stay-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still skeptical about all of this sunshine and happiness hooha.  But, there&#8217;s not much to bum me out or piss me off these days.  (Well, I will be performing tonight at an Open Mike Showcase at <a href=\"http:\/\/roostertfeathers.com\">Rooster T. Feathers.<\/a>  That should help add some counterbalancing darkness.)<\/p>\n<p>Somehow getting pissed off at the lack of story in falling into gainful employment quickly seems a bit disingenuous.  And, complaining about clear, blue 70-80-degree days does as well.  (Especially when almost every email\/call from back home in the Northeast mentions the weather.  The cold, rainy not very Spring-like let alone almost Summer weather.  All I can say is HAHAHA, I guess I picked a good time to vamoose.)<\/p>\n<p>On top of soon to be employment and sunshine, for the first time in what seems eons, I have rocking Memorial Day plans.  We&#8217;re heading to a ranch not far from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yose\/now\/conditions.htm\">Yosemite<\/a> by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/malakoff.com\/goldcountry\/campmap.htm\">Jackson and Sutter Creek in the heart of gold rush country.<\/a>  M.&#8217;s coworker was kind enough to invite us and a few others for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from enjoying natural scenery, hopefully not getting mauled by a bear and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yosemitepark.com\/content2hdr.cfm?SectionID=33&#038;PageID=84\">eating what&#8217;s supposed to be a kickass Sunday brunch,<\/a> the big event will be (and I mention it mostly if <a href=\"http:\/\/reverendtim.com\">this guy<\/a> sees this post) shooting guns.  Yeah, bleeding heart, gun control liberal that I am, I&#8217;ll be staying at a place where the owner saw fit to set up a shooting range.  Maybe I&#8217;ll enjoy the cold steel of a .22 and the subtle kick of a small caliber (or however the fuck that works).  They tell me a dainty chick like me can&#8217;t handle the force of the big guns.  Fuck that, man, hand me the .45.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately (or I guess, no, really quite fortunately), no one in the group is much of a drinker, so I won&#8217;t be whooping it up in Hunter S. Thompson style.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, if in the future I opine about yahoos with guns and gun sports, I&#8217;ll be talking from some place other than completely out of my ass.<\/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\/stay-gold\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still skeptical about all of this sunshine and happiness hooha. But, there&#8217;s not much to bum me out or piss me off these days. (Well, I will be performing tonight at an Open Mike Showcase at Rooster T. Feathers. That should help add some counterbalancing darkness.) Somehow getting pissed off at the lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-eT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}