{"id":1361,"date":"2015-08-31T22:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:32:22","slug":"round15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/08\/31\/round15","title":{"rendered":"Equines, Vines, and Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look what day it is. Come around for the fifteenth time and once again it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><br \/>\n<font size=6 color=\"#FF8800\"><b>DAY<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><br \/>\n<font size=6 color=\"#FF8800\"><b>100<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Alright, let&#8217;s see, what went on that&#8217;s remotely interesting and I feel like sharing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, none of it is all that interesting, but here it is anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Day 4, late birthday cake gathering for me at work, later Trapped Forever by Metro because I didn&#8217;t have the exit fare<\/p>\n<p>Day 6, aaaand trying to drive down a very narrow DC street resulted in me destroying someone&#8217;s side mirror, clearly going into DC is a bad idea in general.<\/p>\n<p>Day 7, Rush concert! Three hours of music&#8230; but they didn&#8217;t play Freewill. Sigh. Afterward, Virginia said &#8220;oh, going into DC has been nightmarish? challenge accepted!&#8221; So in the middle of the night I was stuck in construction traffic on the beltway for THREE HOURS! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/irked.gif\" title=\"So, basically, Virginia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 8, a bunch of weird backyard games, but stayed in Maryland, so no driving issues this time!<\/p>\n<p>Day 9, gahhh, jury duty! County is making me miss work&#8230; for like two hours. They let us out at like 11am and I was still able to go to work. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>Day 13, mmmm, free donut!<\/p>\n<p>Day 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/06\/06\/triple-crown\" title=\"Who Comes After Affirmed?\" class=\"post\">AMERICAN PHAROAH [sic] WINS THE TRIPLE CROWN!!!!!<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/biggrin2.gif\" title=\"Wow!\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 21, took little brother to Sugarloaf to climb rocks to his heart&#8217;s content. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/smile2.gif\" title=\"Nice\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 22, yay, rained out barbecue!<\/p>\n<p>Day 25, parents clearing out stuff from old storage trailer, better not throw away stuff I want to keep! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/doitnow2.gif\" title=\"Or else...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 26, work picnic! Oh, and my headlight&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n<p>Day 27, trying to get a blood test and get my headlight bulb replaced on the same day was a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Day 29, Nationals game!<\/p>\n<p>Day 35, Inside Out!<\/p>\n<p>Day 39, family left town on a train and left the Wii with me, woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>Day 42, &#8216;splosions and chili! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/us_flag.gif\" title=\"Because I'm American...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 43, Team USA wins World Cup!<\/p>\n<p>Day 45, wow, there&#8217;s this overgrown vine slowly conquering my backyard&#8230; Better start yanking it out&#8230; Hey, we have an air conditioner! I remember that thing.<\/p>\n<p>Day 47, Donkey Kong Country! Fuck yeah!<\/p>\n<p>Day 50, cleaning up a lot of crap, finding a lot of old crap I kept for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>Day 54, crap, I think my laptop is having issues.<\/p>\n<p>Day 55, loud tapas are loud!<\/p>\n<p>Day 56, Minions!<\/p>\n<p>Day 57, family left again&#8230; but took the Wii with them this time. D&#8217;oh!<\/p>\n<p>Day 61, power outage at work! LOL<\/p>\n<p>Day 64, so hard to pick out a new laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Day 68, LOL another power outage at work<\/p>\n<p>Day 69, hey, my car hit 69,000 miles today! What timing!<\/p>\n<p>Day 70, Crash Bandicoot!<\/p>\n<p>Day 75, oh, wait, my laptop does still work, Chrome was just eating its RAM for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Day 77, hey, it&#8217;s 8\/8 and I opened an 8 in Minesweeper! Think I&#8217;ll bingewatch Sense8.<\/p>\n<p>Day 80, making travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>Day 84, zoo!<\/p>\n<p>Day 86, eep, I&#8217;m in trouble&#8230; I can fix this.<\/p>\n<p>Day 87, yay, I fixed this!<\/p>\n<p>Day 91, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/08\/23\/new-hat\" title=\"New Hat!\" class=\"post\">all the numbers<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Day 94, time for car maintenance&#8230; going to take a while, I&#8217;ll need to take a *shudder* loaner car! I hate the loaner car! I want MY car! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/irked.gif\" title=\"Ugh, loaner.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Day 95, a bunch of very expensive car work later, finally rid of loaner car and got my own car back!<\/p>\n<p>Day 97, shit, my other headlight is out now.<\/p>\n<p>Day 98, stuff that should have happened a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Day 99, mmmm, yummy Greek salad.<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Day 100. Crazy work day and a mysterious intermittent rumbling sound at home. And chicken wings.<\/p>\n<p>Alright.<\/p>\n<p>As these 100 Days of Summer draw to a close, I see that so far 2015 has had a lot going on, which will be gone over on New Year&#8217;s Eve. But it&#8217;s got four more months to work with. And I&#8217;ve got to post on here again because this thing has been kind of neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye to another 100 Days of Summer. It all starts up again on Day 1 of Round 16 on May 24, 2016, in whatever form the world will be in then. Who knows!<\/p>\n<p><i>This has been <b>Day 100<\/b> of the <b>100 Days of Summer, Round 15<\/b>.<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Summertime!\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, look what day it is. Come around for the fifteenth time and once again it is&#8230; DAY 100 Alright, let&#8217;s see, what went on that&#8217;s remotely interesting and I feel like sharing&#8230; Okay, none of it is all that interesting, but here it is anyway. Day 4, late birthday cake gathering for me at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2015\/08\/31\/round15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Equines, Vines, and Mines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-100-days-of-summer","tag-day-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}