{"id":30,"date":"2004-08-20T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T09:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/?p=30"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T02:56:09","slug":"my_day_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/08\/20\/my_day_off\/","title":{"rendered":"My day off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Friday is my day off, giving me a long weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked up my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowfoot.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/burgled.html\">replacement briefcase<\/a>, returned the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowfoot.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/same-old-same-old.html\">crutches<\/a> to the hospital (I&#8217;m still limping a bit), and forgot to look at new bicycle options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">I did some grocery shopping and got some more\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowfoot.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/enjoyable-night-home-alone.html\" target=\"_blank\">gingerbread ice cream<\/a>. It is a limited edition, so perhaps I&#8217;ve got to eat so much of it that I no longer like it before they withdraw it from the market. I ran into a friend whom I haven&#8217;t seen for months. She and her other half have moved house and will soon be having a housewarming<\/span>. (Am I allowed to say her boyfriend&#8217;s hot, given my lack of identifying them?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wished David an enjoyable vacation. Starting tomorrow, he and his boyfriend are off to San Francisco, Chicago, and Las Vegas for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m enjoying a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/brownbrothers.com.au\/\">Brown Bothers<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winedirect.com.au\/matesrates\/products\/searchres.asp?bid=345&amp;id=95\">2002 <em>Everton<\/em> Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec<\/a>, which I opened with dinner. It was on sale at the supermarket, which saved me from opening any in my cellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/ShowMainServlet\/showid-16751\/\">Jake 2.0<\/a> while I ate my fettucini dinner. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0330913\/\">Christopher (Jake Foley) Gorham<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do anything for me, nor does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/PersonDetail\/personid-148409\">Philip Anthony (Kyle Duarte) Rodriguez<\/a>, yet both have their charms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Who created a show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/ShowMainServlet\/showid-17210\/\"><em>Las Vegas<\/em><\/a>? Google has 12.7 million references to that. The second episode was on tonight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvtome.com\/tvtome\/servlet\/PersonDetail\/personid-13652\">Josh (Danny) Duhamel<\/a> is hot, even without dark facial hair, and I wouldn&#8217;t say no to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapsite.com\/lv\/cast\/mike.htm\">Mike<\/a>. For you straight guys (all three of you), oh, and you J, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapsite.com\/lv\/cast\/delinda.htm\">women<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapsite.com\/lv\/cast\/nessa.htm\">are<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soapsite.com\/lv\/cast\/samantha.htm\">beautiful<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free-to-air television in New Zealand is good<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">. It shows the better of the shows from the US and UK, including premium channels. The new season of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/sixfeetunder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Six Feet Under<\/a>\u00a0starts soon. It&#8217;s a good<\/span> thing I have a couple of VCRs, just in case I get a date on the night things are on. (Any offers?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is my day off, giving me a long weekend. I picked up my replacement briefcase, returned the crutches to the hospital (I&#8217;m still limping a bit), and forgot to look at new bicycle options. I did some grocery shopping and got some more\u00a0gingerbread ice cream. 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