{"id":9986,"date":"2016-07-27T16:55:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:24:57","slug":"july-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/07\/27\/july-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"July Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those wondering what&#8217;s new since <a href=\"\/journal\/2016\/06\/25\/status-update-3\/\">last time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier this month Audrey &#038; I spent a weekend in San Francisco to celebrate her friend&#8217;s wedding.  The night before the wedding we went to an <a href=\"http:\/\/hakkasan.com\/\">incredibly fancy dim sum place<\/a> and were joined by Aaron, who had been at Lake Tahoe earlier and nonchalantly enjoyed the posh surroundings while wearing a swimsuit and flip-flops.  The following day we attended the first combination wedding \/ improv comedy show that I&#8217;ve ever been to, an event which included musical numbers, vows that made everyone cry, and comedy skits; rarely is San Francisco boring.  On our last day the Skipper met us for a trip to see the bugs &#038; fishes at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/\">California Academy of Sciences<\/a>, after which we blew his mind by showing him how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/\">Uber<\/a> works (in fairness, I used Uber for the first time on the same trip, and it is magical).<\/li>\n<li>After many years of incredibly solid management, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce-architects.com\/\">Commerce Architects<\/a> made the first truly questionable decision that I&#8217;ve seen them make when they offered me the opportunity to join them as a junior partner.  My career continues to mirror that of Forrest Gump, as I have been successful primarily by blankly staring at someone and then saying &#8220;OK&#8221;; also, like Forrest, I&#8217;ve been lucky with occasional investments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">fruit companies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The rats in the attic are <a href=\"\/journal\/2016\/03\/28\/it-is-what-it-is\/\">still winning<\/a>.  I&#8217;m confident we&#8217;re going to eventually prevail and will then get to enjoy a rat-free attic, but like many epic conflicts throughout history, I have vastly underestimated my opponent and my resolve has been tested to the point where I&#8217;m fairly certain that the enemy is mostly just continuing the fight in order to mock me.<\/li>\n<li>While I am battling rats and spending my hours building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heb.com\">grocery store websites<\/a>, Audrey is spending some of her time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thresholdchoir.org\/\">Threshold Choir<\/a> and will be helping ease the pain of dying people by singing to them; clearly any good karma I experience in this life is merely bits that were directed at her but instead hit the bald guy by her side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those wondering what&#8217;s new since last time: Earlier this month Audrey &#038; I spent a weekend in San Francisco to celebrate her friend&#8217;s wedding. The night before the wedding we went to an incredibly fancy dim sum place and were joined by Aaron, who had been at Lake Tahoe earlier and nonchalantly enjoyed the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/07\/27\/july-happened\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;July Happened&#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":[34,57,29,51],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-family","tag-homeownership","tag-recap","tag-rodents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}