{"id":124,"date":"2006-08-22T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T02:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:03:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:03:48","slug":"vital-statistics-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/vital-statistics-66","title":{"rendered":"Vital Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was nearly a victim of the &#8220;right hook&#8221; (explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/bicyclesafe.com\/\" target=\"bikesafe\">here<\/a>). A burgundy pickup passed me as I ented an intersection and then turned directly in front of me, passing within a foot of my front wheel. The violation was so blatant that I got mad enough to turn around and attempt to catch up with the vehicle in question. Unfortunately, he\/she had a two block head start on me and disappeared around a corner. I cruised the street for a few blocks but they were long gone.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I spend the night at Portland Adventist where I will be fitted with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continuous_Positive_Airway_Pressure\" target=\"wikipedia\">CPAP<\/a> device. I&#8217;m bringing my camera this time and hope to get some good pictures of me all wired up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike odometer:<\/strong> 74 miles<br \/>\n<strong>Current reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illuminatus\" target=\"wikipedia\">The Illuminatus! Trilogy<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Shea\" target=\"wikipedia\">Robert Shea<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Anton_Wilson\" target=\"wikipedia\">Robert Anton Wilson<\/a>, The Prince by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machiavelli\" target=\"wikipedia\">Machiavelli<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recent listening:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugmusic.com\" target=\"drugmusic\">DrugMusic<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recent viewing:<\/strong> The Daily Show, 30 Days, Sportscenter<br \/>\n<strong>Recent playing:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zuma_%28computer_game%29\" target=\"wikipedia\">Zuma<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recently accomplished:<\/strong> Zuma Level 12-6<br \/>\n<strong>Imperative To Do:<\/strong> Install network in Graham&#8217;s room, labels for my sister&#8217;s CDs, pay bills, fix Newton server, kill and pull weeds<br \/>\n<strong>Cool video:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Naked basketball<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was nearly a victim of the &#8220;right hook&#8221; (explanation here). A burgundy pickup passed me as I ented an intersection and then turned directly in front of me, passing within a foot of my front wheel. The violation was so blatant that I got mad enough to turn around and attempt to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/vital-statistics-66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vital Statistics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1561,39,1566,155,277,122,1567,272,116,975,1559,993,1562,1560,24,194],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-statistics","tag-biking","tag-bills","tag-books","tag-comedy","tag-commute","tag-computers","tag-games","tag-gifts","tag-graham","tag-links","tag-music","tag-newton","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-yard-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-20","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}