{"id":538,"date":"2010-01-15T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/01\/15\/while-the-cats-away-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:27:00","slug":"while-the-cats-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/01\/15\/while-the-cats-away-2\/","title":{"rendered":"While the cat&#8217;s away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr E Man is working in Whistler at the moment, building wheelchair access ramps for some of the Olympic venues. The entire crew are <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/i-build-spaceships.html\">movie set carpenters<\/a>. I\u2019ve reminded him that the ramps are not supposed to collapse, explode, or otherwise provide any spectacular and\/or hilarious visual effects. I\u2019ve at least established that they\u2019re using real wood, rather than plywood, or Styrofoam painted to look like wood.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. He&#8217;s only been gone for two days of a probable seven to ten day stretch, but it&#8217;s been interesting to see how some of my pre-cohabitation habits have already returned&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to bed at my night-owl body&#8217;s natural midnight or thereabouts, rather than Mr E Man&#8217;s usual 10:30 pm.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m reading in bed before going to sleep<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m sleeping diagonally across the whole bed<\/li>\n<li>(One thing I haven&#8217;t done is change the alarm from our usual 6:00 am. Blegh. Sleep deprived. Which leads me to:)<\/li>\n<li>I will probably sleep until 11:00 am on Saturday and Sunday mornings<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m eating omelettes for dinner (Mr E Man still refuses to believe that Brits think this is perfectly normal)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m eating the same thing two nights in a row (on Wednesday night I grilled some lovely Portabello mushrooms and steamed some asparagus, and had this mix plus mature cheddar in an omelette with a side of baked potato on the last two nights. The asparagus-mushroom mix has also been mixed with wholewheat pasta and some balsamic dressing for yesterday&#8217;s and today&#8217;s lunches. I did this kind of thing as a student all the time).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m watching re-runs of <i>Friends<\/i>, even when I&#8217;ve already seen the episode a few times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite nice for a change, but I&#8217;ll be glad when Mr E Man&#8217;s back. The cats aren&#8217;t such a good source of conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr E Man is working in Whistler at the moment, building wheelchair access ramps for some of the Olympic venues. The entire crew are movie set carpenters. I\u2019ve reminded him that the ramps are not supposed to collapse, explode, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/01\/15\/while-the-cats-away-2\/\">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":[51,19,25,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-glorious-food","category-personal","category-silliness","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}