{"id":14936,"date":"2009-06-02T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14936"},"modified":"2009-06-02T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T17:26:14","slug":"batching-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/batching-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Batching it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in, &#8220;being a bachelor for a few days.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think the &#8220;t&#8221; should be in there, but &#8220;baching it&#8221; makes me feel all Baroque inside &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So Margie&#8217;s off on a business trip to Oakland for a few days, returning late Thursday night. Kitten&#8217;s flying out with her this afternoon, to be let off on her first stop in SoCal. There the young&#8217;un will participate in the now-time-honored tradition of &#8220;Grandma &amp; Grandpa Camp,&#8221; wherein both my folks and Margie treat her like a little princess and spoil her rotten.<\/p>\n<p>So empty house tonight and tomorrow night and, effectively, most of Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep busy &#8212; I have karate tonight and Thursday, I&#8217;m doing some WP conversions tonight, and getting together with the Dave Club on Wednesday night. And even failing those, I have games to play and Nets to browse and way too much on DVD and DVR to watch.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a certain fun freedom of not having to worry about anyone else, to heat up whatever I want for dinner (I made plenty of leftovers in my cooking on Sunday night), watch whatever I want, etc. I can lounge about in my skivvies, pick my nose, drink beer and belch and all those other manly things one does when one is a Solo Guy.<\/p>\n<p>And Margie will be back soon, and we&#8217;ll be rejoining Katherine in SoCal later in the month for family celebrations and camping and all.<\/p>\n<p>But I miss &#8217;em already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in, &#8220;being a bachelor for a few days.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think the &#8220;t&#8221; should be in there, but &#8220;baching it&#8221; makes me feel all Baroque inside &#8230; So Margie&#8217;s off on a business trip to Oakland for a few days, returning late Thursday night. Kitten&#8217;s flying out with her this afternoon, to be let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/batching-it.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batching it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-love-and-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12501,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/all_my_bags_are_packed_it.html","url_meta":{"origin":14936,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;All my bags are packed, it&#8217;s ready to snow &#8230;&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Apr-08 10:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wait, that's not how the song goes. 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