{"id":3284,"date":"2003-07-31T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/07\/31\/"},"modified":"2003-07-31T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-31T11:44:00","slug":"3284","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/07\/31\/3284\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a happy camper at all.<\/p>\n<p>Rewind 24 hours. I was feeling a whole lot worse yesterday morning so I didn&#8217;t go into work. I stayed in bed watching TV for a while before getting up to go and read while lying down on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>I had planned on doing a little work and spending some time online during the day. Some of the stuff I&#8217;m on deadline for I could have gotten through at home. However this was not to be. I turned on my computer to have a mere 2 seconds later the power socket on the back blow and take the screen with it. So I&#8217;m now officially computerless at home. I&#8217;m not happy, not happy at all.<\/p>\n<p>So the rest of the day was pretty much spent moping around the house feeling sorry for myself. Watched lots of TV and read for a while. One thing of note was Ed Brubaker&#8217;s <i>A Complete Lowlife<\/i>. It was excellent and the kind of book which could easily have brought me to tears (did I mention I was pretty unhappy at the time?) if I let it. Not sure I&#8217;m going to read it again anytime soon and I think I picked a bad time to read it, but it&#8217;s gonna stay with me for a while.<\/p>\n<p>One of the lads was back in Dublin for a few days so I have some Tayto on my desk and damn do they taste good. Always nice to have a reminder of home, just a little more longing to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Flaming Lips and Iron Maiden are playing London later in the year. I shall be attending both I believe. Something to look forward to at the least.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like I&#8217;m meeting up with some friends whom I haven&#8217;t seen in possibly a year for a cinema trip next week. Could be interesting.<br \/>\n***<\/p>\n<p><i>Bush said it is &#8220;important for society to welcome each individual,&#8221; but administration lawyers are looking for some way to legally limit marriage to heterosexuals.<br \/>\n&#8220;I believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way or another,&#8221; Bush told reporters at a White House news conference. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve got lawyers looking at the best way to do that.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/07\/30\/bush.gay.marriage\/index.html\"><br \/>\nBush wants marriage reserved for heterosexuals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congrats America, land of the free and that bollocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a happy camper at all. Rewind 24 hours. I was feeling a whole lot worse yesterday morning so I didn&#8217;t go into work. I stayed in bed watching TV for a while before getting up to go and read while lying down on the couch. I had planned on doing a little work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/07\/31\/3284\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}