{"id":338,"date":"2009-01-06T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/06\/2009-sucks\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:31:00","slug":"2009-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/06\/2009-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this year, and in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My mother-in-law slipped on some ice and broke her arm &#8211; both bones, just above the wrist. She didn&#8217;t need any surgery, and seems in good spirits, but 2 months in a cast might change that. One of her sons is with her right now, another is going at the weekend, and we&#8217;ll probably go up the weekend after that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My brother-in-law&#8217;s apartment flooded when a pipe burst in the apartment above him. So he, his two kids, and his puppy are homeless for a month while everything is fixed. Luckily his insurance covers everything, including temporary accommodation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A good friend is reluctantly leaving Vancouver and going back to the UK, largely because of the lack of affordable day care. This is the second good friend I&#8217;ve lost for the same reason in a 6 month period, and I&#8217;m thinking of opening my own day care so my remaining friends will stay here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The awesome tenant in our basement suite is thinking of moving to the US in the spring to join her boyfriend. As Mr E Man said, &#8220;make him come here! We&#8217;ll never find another tenant who&#8217;ll look after our cats and give us home-made butter tarts with the rent money!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The state of the roads means I won&#8217;t be able to cycle until next week at the earliest, and then only on the main roads &#8211; it could take weeks to clear the side streets. Until then I&#8217;m stuck taking the fucking bus, which I hate. Yeah, I know things are much worse in Edmonton \/ Toronto \/ Wherever, but that&#8217;s part of the reason I didn&#8217;t want to live there and chose to move to Vancouver instead!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The oh-so-pretty lattice work arch over our gate, that the purple clematis climbs over in summer, collapsed under the weight of the snow and is now lying sadly in a 3-foot snow drift in the garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Several other friends are either sick or having various personal crises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously, I think I&#8217;d like to skip 2009 and go straight to 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this year, and in no particular order: My mother-in-law slipped on some ice and broke her arm &#8211; both bones, just above the wrist. She didn&#8217;t need any surgery, and seems in good spirits, but 2 months in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/01\/06\/2009-sucks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,19,20,38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal","category-rants","category-snow","category-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}