{"id":298,"date":"2012-05-27T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-05-27T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:43:23","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-spider-on-the-washing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to the spider on the washing line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need to put cobwebs on the clothes pegs. You don&#8217;t need to put any on my jeans, either. You don&#8217;t &#8212; look, no webs on the washing line, alright? It&#8217;s a good job you&#8217;re doing, and you seem like a really efficient worker, but it&#8217;s wasted out here. They&#8217;re mighty fine webs, but I don&#8217;t think any bugs are going to be interested in my pants. We could probably make an arrangement where I make my pants a bug paradise, and you could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Look, just get a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Love, Mark.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d meant to have a Bomberman update, but I&#8217;m having pretty bad computer problems. Namely, I can&#8217;t get past the boot cycle!<\/p>\n<p>In my infinite wisdom, I installed XP Service Pack 3, and Microsoft&#8217;s site ever so kindly didn&#8217;t bother telling me the million or so hoops you need to jump through just so it won&#8217;t <strong>fuck up your computer<\/strong>. After looking for a safe way to remove it, I&#8217;m told that just doing a bog-standard uninstall should do the trick&#8230; and now I can&#8217;t access my desktop. Thanks a bunch, SP3! <em>Thank you straight to hell.<\/em><br \/>\nAmusingly, I installed the service pack in the first place because a program wouldn&#8217;t run until I had SP3. Now that it&#8217;s working, it doesn&#8217;t do what I wanted. <em>Wahey!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not hindered too badly by this &#8211; I last made a backup in April, and I honestly have no clue what I&#8217;ve done all this month <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(it&#8217;s nearly June already?!)<\/span>, so the possibility of lost files is nothing to cry over <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(I hope!)<\/span>. Not having a machine is just a bit of a bummer, though!<br \/>\nThought I&#8217;d keep all two of you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need to put cobwebs on the clothes pegs. You don&#8217;t need to put any on my jeans, either. You don&#8217;t &#8212; look, no webs on the washing line, alright? It&#8217;s a good job you&#8217;re doing, and you seem like a really efficient worker, but it&#8217;s wasted out here. They&#8217;re mighty fine webs, but [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,8],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-observation","tag-site-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}