{"id":292,"date":"2009-01-09T21:23:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-03-13T22:31:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:31:34","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0TGIF\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; First week back after a break is always tough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 15px; height: 15px;\" title=\"Meh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/meh.gif\" alt=\"Meh\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Celtics &#8211; Serious slump. From a near perfect season to second place in a week. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Trader Joe&#8217;s Cranberry Stollen\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Man, is this stuff good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 539px; height: 198px;\" title=\"Cranberry Stollen\" src=\"https:\/\/bimmermail.com\/stollen.jpg\" alt=\"Cranberry Stollen\" width=\"539\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Winter &#8211; Single digits and below coming next week. I am so ready for spring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"18\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Blago about to be impeached &#8211; Six months late, but better than never.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"22\" height=\"21\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Amazon.com&#8217;s shipping &#8211; Used to be the best in the business. now it&#8217;s just pathetic. Up to two weeks to get some items. I ordered a very small handheld CB radio on Dec. 31. It may arrive on Monday, nearly two weeks later. It shipped from Hazelwood, MO which is less than a hundred miles from here. I guess the Pony Express still lives, although even a horse could be here quicker. Used to be you&#8217;d get the item you bought in a few days, now it&#8217;s a few weeks. Amazon made their fortune off instant gratification and now they&#8217;re abandoning the very thing that made them famous and successful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>My CB arrived today (Saturday), so 10 days after ordering. Not as bad, especially considering the 1st was a holiday. Still, from an hour-and-a-half away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and Downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0TGIF\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; First week back after a break is always tough. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Celtics &#8211; Serious slump. From a near perfect season to second place in a week. Yikes. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Trader Joe&#8217;s Cranberry Stollen\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Man, is this stuff good. \u00c2\u00a0 Winter &#8211; Single digits and below coming next week. I am so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}