{"id":1339,"date":"2004-07-02T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2004-07-02T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T16:19:37","slug":"so-much-to-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/so-much-to-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"So much to blog, so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are going out of town this weekend so I’ve been busy getting ready. Yesterday was a big errand day, including a stop at the optician’s. Something’s wrong with my new glasses: I don’t have good distance vision out of my left eye. It’s beginning to get inconvenient; I’m finding myself turning my head to favor my fully-corrected right eye. It’s especially annoying when I’m driving and can’t read street signs, or in a store when I’m barraged with signs that are slightly out of focus.
\nAnyway, they checked the prescription and it was filled correctly, so next week I go back to the optometrist’s. The opticians will refill the prescription at no charge (that was a big relief!) I hope I will not lose my granolacon credentials when I say I am so thankful for all this new technology — I am nearsighted and have astigmatism, yet I can enjoy fully corrected vision with scratch-resistant lenses that don’t totally resemble the bottoms of Coke bottles (back when they were made out of glass.) For that matter, remember when glasses were made of glass? When I was a kid I would have to wait for a week to get my new glasses, but Lenscrafters can have two new pairs ready for me in an hour.
\nToday I am washing and waxing the car. Hambet was an eager helper while we were vacuuming, but he got tired (it’s really hot out) and went back inside. I’m back in to give him some lunch before I go out to wax it. Why is detailing a car so much more fun than detailing a bathroom?
\nI am not sure why I’m detailing the car instead of washing and packing clothes. Part of it was just being sick of having a dirty car. Part of it may be since we’ve just done all this work on the Moss-mobile, it seems right to have it nice and clean. Part of it was being really embarrassed at all the Cheerios in the crevices when I went to bring it in (there weren’t that many, but I was still embarrassed…. and I should, in fairness, note that there were plenty of coffee splashes, too.)
\nPart of it is that in our travels this weekend, we are going to be seeing my dad, whose car always looks awful but who always has a great deal of (good) advice on how to keep a car looking nice. When we were there last summer, he went messing around with our windshield and putting some kind of magic preparation on it — something about making the rain bead up. We were getting kind of annoyed in that he went doing this when we were trying to get going on our road trip to Bismarck. But we were thankful on the way back, when we got caught in one of the heaviest thunderstorms I’ve ever seen in my life — the windshield elixer really made the rain bead up, and it made a hugh improvement in the visibility. (It’s called Rain-X or something like that, and yes, I’m going to put some on the car today.)
\nAs long as I’m endorsing things, let me endorse the baby pictures at Papa-Lu’s<\/a> and the mommy blogs A Call to Adventure<\/a>, Princess Mommy<\/a>, and Ruminations<\/a>. And while we’re on the topic of thankfulness, go catch up on Katholik Shinja <\/a>and be thankful if you live in a country where free speech is protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are going out of town this weekend so I’ve been busy getting ready. Yesterday was a big errand day, including a stop at the optician’s. Something’s wrong with my new glasses: I don’t have good distance vision out of my left eye. It’s beginning to get inconvenient; I’m finding myself turning my head to… Continue reading So much to blog, so little time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peonyiana","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}