{"id":34,"date":"2006-12-31T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T20:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-12-31T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T20:40:22","slug":"new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First an apology. To whom, I&#8217;m not sure. I turned off commenting on all the posts on this blog. I got tired of moderating spam comments. And, the fact of the matter is, I have never gotten anything but spam comments. So, I guess I&#8217;m apologizing to the non-existent group of non-spam commenters to this blog. That&#8217;s a weird concept.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Eve today. I&#8217;m almost over the virus that has consumed the majority of the winter break. I have gotten next to nothing I planned to do over break done. I&#8217;ve spent the time with folks I love, feeling pretty bad. But I am hereby putting this behind me and leaving it in 2006!<\/p>\n<p>Some of the neat things that happened this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pam won me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallax.com\/detail.asp?product_id=28132\">BOEbot<\/a> for approximately half price on ebay!<\/li>\n<li>We found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallax.com\/detail.asp?product_id=27237\">Javelin Stamp Starter Kit<\/a> on ebay. We&#8217;re still waiting to see if it will go for a price I can afford.<\/li>\n<li>I got Kurt his Christmas present from me and Pam, a cell phone. He and Erin can stay in touch easier now.<\/li>\n<li>I figured out which video camera I was going to buy in a couple of weeks.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/consumer\/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&#038;fcategoryid=174&#038;modelid=12827\">Canon Elura 100 Digital Camcorder<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I figured out which digital camera I&#8217;m going to get for Erin (about the same time). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikonusa.com\/template.php?cat=1&#038;grp=2&#038;productNr=25555\">Nikon Coolpix S10<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I found a copy of Roger Zelazny&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Book-Amber-Complete-Chronicles\/dp\/0380809060\/sr=8-1\/qid=1167596880\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-8732334-7675919?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\"><em><span class=\"sans\">The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber)<\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"sans\"> which allows me to read the second half of the story! Great story by the way.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sans\">I subscribed to a bunch more channels on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> (65 at the time I write this).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sans\">I finally relaxed (2 days before I have to go back to the tension inducing grind but at least I <strong>did<\/strong> relax).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"sans\">Enough for now. Happy New Year everybody!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First an apology. To whom, I&#8217;m not sure. I turned off commenting on all the posts on this blog. I got tired of moderating spam comments. And, the fact of the matter is, I have never gotten anything but spam comments. So, I guess I&#8217;m apologizing to the non-existent group of non-spam commenters to this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6,16,5,11,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kellie.wildroseandbriar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}