{"id":550,"date":"2005-02-17T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/02\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T00:37:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:37:32","slug":"operation-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/02\/17\/operation-avoidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The past couple of weeks, mom and I have been working on J2&#8217;s financial aid papers.  Last Saturday, I went to her house to finish up the last of them.  I thought this would be a simple thing, but then mom called in the morning to alert me to a possible snag: J1 was staying at her house!<\/p>\n<p>According to a glum IM from J2 &#8220;He&#8217;s here all the time now, I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221;  I&#8217;m puzzled about it myself &#8212; he&#8217;s doing work in Milford, which is a town near where I live, but not all that much closer to mom&#8217;s house than his own apartment (with the highways the actual physical distance is secondary to how long it actually takes to drive there.)  Apparently he&#8217;s doing lots of work there; no one can figure out why he&#8217;s not staying in a motel, because surely that would be about as economical as having him drive nearly three hours round trip every day.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, he was at work on Saturday, so I managed to come over, do the papers and depart again without running into him.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday was mom&#8217;s birthday, so I came back over to her house.  This was more tricky, since she doesn&#8217;t get home &#8217;til 7:20 and J1 was due to return&#8230; whenever.  But all went well.  We had some pizza and some cake and I fixed mom up with Firefox instead of her old Mozilla, and then I left shortly after J1 got home.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks, mom and I have been working on J2&#8217;s financial aid papers. Last Saturday, I went to her house to finish up the last of them. I thought this would be a simple thing, but then mom called in the morning to alert me to a possible snag: J1 was staying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}