{"id":2026,"date":"2014-10-20T11:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:03:55","slug":"partial-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/partial-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I better make some kind of attempt at posting something I guess, although I&#8217;m still a bit put out with my Internet provider. \u00a0Apparently the mysterious people who lived in my brand new house before me called up and disconnected my service. \u00a0Sigh. \u00a0We were out for darn near a week before they finally came back out and hooked it up again. \u00a0(And acted like they were doing us a favor at that.) \u00a0The guy that came out and installed it was pretty helpful, the entire rest of the company I had the displeasure of working with were beyond pathetic. \u00a0Something tells me the whole episode isn&#8217;t quite finished yet either, I&#8217;m taking a &#8220;wait and see&#8221; stance on it.<\/p>\n<p>So, Uverse aside, things have been going OK at the new house. \u00a0As of Friday, we are officially OUT of the rental house. \u00a0Geez I didn&#8217;t think we were ever going to get all our stuff moved. \u00a0I took the day off, rented a van from Uhaul, and got it over with. \u00a0My best guess in the morning was two trips at the most, and best case I was going to get it all in one trip. \u00a0Four full loads later, (and one trip to the Thrift store to give them some stuff,) the house was finally empty. \u00a0The BAD news is we don&#8217;t have anywhere to put it all. \u00a0It&#8217;s just kind of randomly piled in the dining room and garage right now, like an episode of Hoarders. \u00a0It is a sad thing when you&#8217;ve got a three-car garage and can&#8217;t put your one car in it because it&#8217;s too full of junk. \u00a0Ahhh, for a basement. \u00a0Meanwhile, the back yard project slowly continues. \u00a0A little TOO slowly for my tastes, but as long as it&#8217;s making progress I guess. \u00a0There was a guy delivering a truckload of plants when I left the house this morning, so maybe I&#8217;ll have trees when I get home.<\/p>\n<p>How &#8217;bout them Royals? \u00a0We are more than excited for the series. \u00a0Donette is a bit put out with me for not buying tickets to see a game in San Francisco, but I just can&#8217;t pull trigger. \u00a0Too rich for my blood! \u00a0We&#8217;ve got a nice new TV to watch it on, that&#8217;ll just have to do. \u00a0Got a few bets at the office on the outcome too, maybe I&#8217;ll win enough to cover the price of the tickets. \u00a0(Oh wait, none of the bets are for money&#8230; \u00a0Never mind.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2026 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/partial-effort\/patio\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/patio-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/patio-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/patio-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/patio-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/patio.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2030'>\n\t\t\t\tSort of a view of the forms for the patio, taken from the upstairs window.  Can&#8217;t quite fit it all in the picture.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/partial-effort\/televisioin\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/televisioin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/televisioin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/televisioin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/televisioin-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/televisioin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2029'>\n\t\t\t\tMy new TV, with my old one beside it for comparison.  The amusing part is they cost just about the same.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/partial-effort\/concrete\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-112x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/concrete.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2028'>\n\t\t\t\tThe concrete truck showed up at 6:30 in the morning on a Saturday.  Good morning neighbors!!!!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I better make some kind of attempt at posting something I guess, although I&#8217;m still a bit put out with my Internet provider. \u00a0Apparently the mysterious people who lived in my brand new house before me called up and disconnected my service. \u00a0Sigh. \u00a0We were out for darn near a week before they finally came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}