{"id":158,"date":"2005-03-15T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2006-04-03T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T01:43:32","slug":"days-x-gas-x-food-x-miles-i-need-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Days x Gas x Food x Miles = I need more money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/6348644\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/6348644_32f1fc10b2_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/6348644\/\" \/><br \/>\nWe are on Disneyland count down at our house.<br \/>\n&#8220;How many days till Disneyland?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;SEVEN!&#8221; they all scream in unison.<\/p>\n<p>Disneyland, also known as the happiest fucking place on earth. I don&#8217;t remember it being the &#8216;happiest&#8217; place. My happy place does not include over priced food, crowds of people, long lines and large mice.<br \/>\nYes, If I had my choice I would be packing my dive gear, flip flops &#038; bathing suit and heading to Maui.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when getting in the car and driving in the general area of where I wanted to go was the perfect way to plan a vacation.<br \/>\nThose days are SO over. Now I have become a freak about planning.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t let anyone see the many journals I keep of numbers. I&#8217;m a number person. I hate math, but I like knowing how much something is going to cost if you add in certain factors. I like to know how many miles divide by this and rounded off to that. I love that stuff, but it consumes me. I&#8217;m consumed right now.<\/p>\n<p>I am calculating the miles, the gas, the cost of sodas, the blue book value of a 1982 Dodge Aries, the amount of water it takes to &#8230;.yeah, I&#8217;m getting carried away.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me i&#8217;m not the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are on Disneyland count down at our house. &#8220;How many days till Disneyland?&#8221; &#8220;SEVEN!&#8221; they all scream in unison. Disneyland, also known as the happiest fucking place on earth. I don&#8217;t remember it being the &#8216;happiest&#8217; place. My happy place does not include over priced food, crowds of people, long lines and large mice. Yes, If I had my choice I would be packing my dive gear, flip flops &#038; bathing suit and heading to Maui. There was a time when getting in the car and driving in the general area of where I wanted to go was the perfect way to plan a vacation. Those days are SO over. Now I have become a freak about planning. I haven&#8217;t let anyone see the many journals I keep of numbers. I&#8217;m a number person. I hate math, but I like knowing how much something is going to cost if you add in certain factors. I like to know how many miles divide by this and rounded off to that. I love that stuff, but it consumes me. I&#8217;m consumed right now. I am calculating the miles, the gas, the cost of sodas, the blue book value of a 1982 Dodge Aries, the amount of water it takes to &#8230;.yeah, I&#8217;m getting carried away. Tell me i&#8217;m not the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}