{"id":366,"date":"2011-07-29T02:24:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T02:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucebramson.com\/2011\/07\/29\/blogus-interruptus-ii-at-m-y-o-b-3\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T02:24:38","slug":"blogus-interruptus-ii-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"BLOGUS INTERRUPTUS II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hiatus in posting was occasioned by a drive to Pennsylvania and back, by way of Denver, where a dear friend lives. He accompanied me to PA and back as far as Denver.<\/p>\n<p>It was a quick trip, driving a lot of miles:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tripstats11-500x406.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trip Miles<\/p>\n<p>That entry for Denver to Barstow is correct: I miscalculated the distance, and planned to stay in Las Vegas to shorten the day. However, I got off the freeway there, could not find a hotel, and could not get back on the freeway due to massive reconstruction. I finally said, \u201cTo heck with it\u201d, and drove on to Barstow as planned. It was a long day!<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the trip went fairly well, despite some bad weather and in spite of my taking a rented car rather than my own old Chrysler. About all I can say for the modern Chrysler \u201cTown &amp; Country\u201d is that it went father on a gallon of gas than my old car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/tripstats2-499x345.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trip Gas Costs and Miles Per Gallon<\/p>\n<p>One thing I found noticeable and annoying: since we ate in restaurants, we were subjected to numerous disgusting children, better known as rug-rats. With few exceptions, they were ill-mannered and loud, and their parents did nothing to induce better behavior.\u00a0 For the life of me, I can\u2019t figure out why americans are so afraid of gay people: at the rate mid-westerners reproduce, it can\u2019t be they fear depopulation! Could it be that deep in their hearts, they\u2019re worried that <strong>some of their own precious little brats will grow up to be gay?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I did have some time to complete a new story: <em><strong>Life After Charlie<\/strong><\/em> turns the Nature-Boy trilogy into a tetralogy, so read the Nature-Boy triplet first, then Life After Charlie. They are all on <strong>Nifty<\/strong>, and formatted pdf files are available if you drop me a line at MYOB@brucebramson.com .<\/p>\n<p>Once I get used to the changed time and catch up on a flood of emails, I will continue the narrative of my trip: Thailand turned out to be very different from Cambodia. I expect it still is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/signature1-300x149-150x149.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1, 2009 The hiatus in posting was occasioned by a drive to Pennsylvania and back, by way of Denver, where a dear friend lives. He accompanied me to PA and back as far as Denver. It was a quick trip, driving a lot of miles: Trip Miles That entry for Denver to Barstow is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucebramson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}