{"id":10480,"date":"2016-12-27T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=10480"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:33:16","slug":"december-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/12\/27\/december-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"December Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December was one of those months that both flew by and at the same time seemed to go on forever.  Here&#8217;s the recap:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A trip to San Antonio at the beginning of the month got things started, followed by a trip to Spokane the following week for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce-architects.com\/\">Commerce Architects<\/a> Christmas party.  The party coincided with a polar vortex hitting the northern states, which for non-meteorologists means SO COLD NO WARMTH CAN&#8217;T FEEL FINGERS.  We celebrated on the top floor of a 17 story office building with temperatures outside hovering right around zero; at one point I looked out and wondered where smoke was coming from, but apparently when it&#8217;s super cold water just magically condenses out of the air into smoke.  I very much appreciated living in LA when I returned home.<\/li>\n<li>Life in LA continues more-or-less as usual, although Audrey and I did share much excitement over a new garage door and opener; being a homeowner makes you get excited about really, really dull things.<\/li>\n<li>Christmas was again spent with Ma &#038; Pa in the Bay Area, meaning I got to take the <a href=\"\/journal\/2016\/11\/30\/suby-iii\/\">new car<\/a> on his first road trip; among many other reasons why this car rules, adaptive cruise control is all sorts of awesome when you&#8217;re spending many hours on the Interstate.  Christmas went according to plan, with Ma pulling off another amazing turkey dinner, Aaron stalking me with a semi-automatic Nerf gun, and the Skipper all kinds of happy when I showed him how to watch nature documentaries in HD on his new Amazon Fire TV.<\/li>\n<li>Following Christmas the <a href=\"\/journal\/tag\/man-trip\/\">annual man-trip<\/a> began, but for the first night I stayed with Aaron in Sacramento and we went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3748528\/\">Rogue One<\/a>, since both of our significant others would be unable to tell the difference between a Stormtrooper and a storm cloud.  It&#8217;s not a high bar to clear to be the best Star Wars movie since the Empire Strikes Back, but this movie cleared that bar with tons of room to spare; it not only looked and felt <i>exactly<\/i> like it belonged with the original movies, but the story filled in some plot points that made Star Wars an even better movie &#8211; to cite the biggest example, George Lucas needs to send the writers a huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; for freeing him from hordes of nerds who have mocked the original movie for having a moon-sized based that could be blown up with a single missile.  Now?  Totally plausible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December was one of those months that both flew by and at the same time seemed to go on forever. Here&#8217;s the recap: A trip to San Antonio at the beginning of the month got things started, followed by a trip to Spokane the following week for the Commerce Architects Christmas party. The party coincided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/12\/27\/december-recap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December Recap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,34,57,29],"class_list":["post-10480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-homeownership","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10480"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10497,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10480\/revisions\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}