{"id":34,"date":"2004-11-18T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T21:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/18\/homesick\/"},"modified":"2004-11-19T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T16:48:30","slug":"homesick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/18\/homesick\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen my poor little apartment all week. I have been home helping my mom, who has her own busy schedule at this time of year, by watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/johnny.jpg\" target=\"ext_win\" >my younger brother<\/a> in the evenings. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to go back to Boston just to sleep and wake and come back here at 8am, so I&#8217;ve been sleeping here, instead. Saves gas money and morning aggrevation. Kind of. Anyway, a couple of days ago I caught the tail-end of a news report about an apartment building that burnt down in Boston since I&#8217;ve been away. I seriously wondered for a while if it was my building. I&#8217;m still not sure it wasn&#8217;t. If it were, it would make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/16\/the-good-mechanic\/\">last weekend&#8217;s fiasco<\/a> look like a walk in the park. But we&#8217;ll cross that bridge if we come to it&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it looks like another busy weekend. &#8216;Tis the season. As for now, I miss my coffee maker and my freezer, which is literally half full of brick-sized bags of Starbucks coffee beans of various blends and varieties (Verona being my favorite. Very yummy with dark chocolate&#8230;) These bags o&#8217; beans were free, and while I&#8217;m enjoying them, I can&#8217;t help but think of the source when I go to grind a handful&#8230; One of my dad&#8217;s clients unloaded about 15 pounds of these precious caffeinated nuggets on him, knowing that he (and his daughter) are serious coffee drinkers. The explanation being that the client&#8217;s <em>x-husband<\/em> was the coffee drinker in the family, and said client is now determined to put her freezer to better use. Sad, but true. One man&#8217;s trash is another man&#8217;s treasure, I guess&#8230; Since I&#8217;ve got the grinder, I snagged all of the whole beans. So, there you go.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry for the fuzzy thoughts. I&#8217;m Thursday-tired, whatever that really (yawn) means. 54 minutes to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen my poor little apartment all week. I have been home helping my mom, who has her own busy schedule at this time of year, by watching my younger brother in the evenings. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to go back to Boston just to sleep and wake and come back here at 8am, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}