{"id":561,"date":"2006-12-26T13:20:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2006\/12\/26\/4-days-to-go\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:44:38","slug":"4-days-to-go","status":"publish","type":"earl","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/earl\/4-days-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"4 days to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have&#8217;t gone in to work yet, but today we get back to the big countdown: 4 days until the end of my penance in the TV industry.  Can&#8217;t wait.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q4-06\/obilivvie1.jpg\" alt=\"Oberon and Olivia\" \/><br \/>\nOberon and Olivia are chilling out after all the Christmas cheer.  Actually, they got to spend a lot of the day in the house with no people around &#8211; as usual, we head to my sister-in-law&#8217;s place for Christmas.  I missed seeing Sampson and the other kitties around; there&#8217;s only one cat left up there.  It&#8217;s easy to figure out why when you see real live bald eagles zipping around the mountain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q4-06\/jangoodies1.jpg\" alt=\"My Cat Is The Real Boss\" \/><br \/>\nMy wife liked the bundle of Olivia goodies I got her.  As crazy as she is about her kitten, I hoped they&#8217;d go down well.  I filled the mug with these chocolates that she likes a lot, so all was well.  I suppose sometime this year I need to update that design with one that includes Oberon and says &#8220;My <em>Cats<\/em> Are The Real Bosses.&#8221;  \ud83d\ude06  Anyone who&#8217;s interested in picking up the Olivia-wear can still find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/oliviakitty\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI got a nice big spindle of dual-layer DVD+R blanks, new boots (seems that the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2006\/12\/19\/oh-god\/\">a week ago today<\/a> was pretty much the end for my already-slowly-disintegrating farm boots) and socks to go with them, and the 4-disc Chronicles Of Narnia DVD set.  And today, I got&#8230;technical problems.  Zen has suddenly decided that it will no longer run Paint Shop Pro 8, nor will it let me reinstall it; I&#8217;ve had to load up PSP<strong>5<\/strong> to get any graphics work done.  As a possible solution to this problem, I managed to get IE7 uninstalled at last, at the cost of Microsoft trying to tell me every 15 minutes that my computer requires Critical Updates.<br \/>\nTime for me to get cleaned up a bit and head to work.  4 more days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have&#8217;t gone in to work yet, but today we get back to the big countdown: 4 days until the end of my penance in the TV industry. Can&#8217;t wait. Oberon and Olivia are chilling out after all the Christmas cheer. Actually, they got to spend a lot of the day in the house with no people around &#8211; as usual, we head to my sister-in-law&#8217;s place for Christmas. I missed seeing Sampson and the other kitties around; there&#8217;s only one cat left up there. It&#8217;s easy to figure out why when you see real live bald eagles zipping around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"scribblings-cats":[],"scribblings-tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","earl","type-earl","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/earl"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8076,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/earl\/561\/revisions\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"scribblings-cats","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scribblings-cats?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"scribblings-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scribblings-tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}