{"id":2458,"date":"2007-01-05T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm2\/2007\/01\/05\/tailgating-friendship\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T11:18:28","slug":"tailgating-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/2007\/01\/05\/tailgating-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgating friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m being cuddled up to by one of the most consistent, persistent, and expert cuddlers I&#8217;ve ever known: Shaun, my lovable mexican sewer rat. (e.g. One of the two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felis_silvestris_catus\">Felis silvestris catus<\/a> that walked into my internal combustion engine powered hunks of metal almost four years ago.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A friend mentioned to my on my world-wind trip back through southwest ohio that she didn&#8217;t realize how lonely I was. She was wrong and right.<\/p>\n<p>On the same trip my sister, the deftly skilled interviewer, asked me &#8220;Do you miss Dayton?&#8221; and I, being the deftly skilled politician, answered, &#8220;I miss you all.&#8221;  (This of course was followed by a pointed observation that I didn&#8217;t answer the question.)<\/p>\n<p>Also on the same trip I re-experienced the joy of being tailgate, mind you not just any tailgating, this is the good ol&#8217; lets drive 10 feet behind you at 60 miles an hour tailgating. (This is about 0.10 seconds between cars.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a new method of cardiovascular exercise, it simply involves commenting to my roommate on how she doesn&#8217;t actually do her chores at the house, which results in her using the world&#8217;s worst conflict resolution skills&reg; (essentially high pitched screaming that comes out of blue), which raises my heart rate..  If this were actually helpful exercise I&#8217;d have lost ten pounds by now. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Seattle adventure&reg; is hitting an interesting point right now.  <\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>The aforementioned roommate has prompted me to quietly begin looking for places to move to.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m lonely in a way I wasn&#8217;t lonely in Cincinnati..  In Cincinnati, I was missing a very specific type of companionship that the friend above didn&#8217;t have the ability to provide, specifically romantic companionship.  I&#8217;ve not found that yet, but I&#8217;m enjoying the search, and I&#8217;ve probably gone on more dates in the past six weeks than I did in my last six months in Cincinnati.\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit lonely here in Seattle because I&#8217;m still needing to expand my circle of friends, which I&#8217;ll do, but right now it&#8217;ll just take more time.  I&#8217;ve never been one to quickly make lots of friends, but those I do make I tend to keep.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I miss my friends back in the midwest. (hey y&#8217;all! Move out here, we&#8217;ll all rent a house together!) <\/p>\n<p>But, I don&#8217;t miss the midwest, especially not those damn tailgaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m being cuddled up to by one of the most consistent, persistent, and expert cuddlers I&#8217;ve ever known: Shaun, my lovable mexican sewer rat. (e.g. One of the two Felis silvestris catus that walked into my internal combustion engine powered hunks of metal almost four years ago.) A friend mentioned to my on my world-wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}