{"id":583,"date":"2005-05-12T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T06:14:09","slug":"the-checkers-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/the-checkers-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"The Checkers Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>As is usual when I&#8217;m not having to go anywhere during the day, my sleep schedule is completely reversed.  But I&#8217;m too tired by mid-morning to stay up the rest of the day, so I end up sleeping during the afternoon&#8230; which is enough to keep me going until once again I&#8217;m up until the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I know as soon as I have to be getting up in the morning again I&#8217;ll at least partially fix it, but it&#8217;s really frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>Today I started to make lunch, but then I was too tired to actually eat it, so I put it in the fridge and instead fell asleep on the sofa.  Bleh.<\/p>\n<p>On another, weirder note, I was playing checkers with someone online.  Now, we all know, checkers, not exactly chess, and certainly not Go or some super complex game.  Checkers has been solved.   Anyhow, we were playing, and at the end, when I won most handily, I get this message &#8216;What script do you use?&#8217;.  I was taken aback by the question &#8212; do people really lack even the ability to take responsibility for playing  an abysmal game of checkers?  Because they lost, clearly there was foul play involved.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, hon.  You just stink.  Here&#8217;s a hint for next time: don&#8217;t leave your checkers where I can jump over them with my own.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is usual when I&#8217;m not having to go anywhere during the day, my sleep schedule is completely reversed. But I&#8217;m too tired by mid-morning to stay up the rest of the day, so I end up sleeping during the afternoon&#8230; which is enough to keep me going until once again I&#8217;m up until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}