{"id":345,"date":"2007-12-14T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=345"},"modified":"2007-12-14T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T04:42:00","slug":"impatience-is-a-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/12\/14\/impatience-is-a-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Impatience is a virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 10:43pm and I can&#8217;t go to bed. My eyes are burning, my contacts are like pieces of sandpaper in my eyes and I keep glancing longingly over at my cat who is curled up on my bed snoring lightly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to import one of my forum databases into its new home on my new server. Apparently the database is giganimous and I&#8217;ve been waiting for it to import for about 2 hours now. I didn&#8217;t realize it was going to take this long so now I&#8217;m wishing I&#8217;d started it earlier this evening. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been particularly patient. Growing up, Christmas eve was agony for me, so eager was I to get to pressies in the morning that I&#8217;d stay up all night, too excited to sleep. I&#8217;ve grown out of that phase now though \ud83d\ude42 But my impatience leaks out all the time.<\/p>\n<p>On the road, I despise being behind people who drive way below the speed limit. Online, I will curse at my computer if a page takes too long to load, or lags. I&#8217;ve cussed a blue streak at the database this evening. At work, my laptop is being particularly pokey when switching between programs and it&#8217;s pretty much driving me insane.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for people who are late bothers the hell out of me. Once, back in Cali, a friend of mine told me she would pick me up when I finished my shift at the video store. I close up the place at ten and step outside to wait for my ride. And I wait. and I wait. Soon an hour has passed. This was the Jurassic era when we didn&#8217;t have cell phones so I had no way to call her and yell at her. Long story short, she never showed and I walked the five miles home in the dark. The next day I found out I&#8217;d been blown off so she and her boyfriend could shag on the beach. Ever since then if someone is late to meet me or pick me up, I panic and get pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have a point for this blog other than I needed to kill some time while I wait for this motherf****ing ****sucking piece of **** big-ass database from hell to import.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll go poke the cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 10:43pm and I can&#8217;t go to bed. My eyes are burning, my contacts are like pieces of sandpaper in my eyes and I keep glancing longingly over at my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}