{"id":4124,"date":"2013-07-11T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2013-07-11T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:10:42","slug":"bad-at-typing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=4124","title":{"rendered":"Bad at Typing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think about writing here practically every day (well, except weekends&#8230; I only think about being awesome on weekends), and then every day I&#8217;m stupidly busy during the hours I&#8217;m in front of a computer and the last thing I want to do in my leisure hours is more typing. Not that I&#8217;m complaining about the stuff that keeps me busy, because I love the incredible sense of accomplishment every day.<\/p>\n<p>So. Now it&#8217;s time for some very brief notes, picking up from where I left off <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=4085\" target=\"_blank\">almost a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy and Amelia&#8217;s shower went really well. The weather was excellent, the event was laid-back, and I was pretty excited to bring this cake, since it came very close to being a failure!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"I'm pretty proud of myself right now. by the queen of subtle, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9119536232\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"I'm pretty proud of myself right now.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7351\/9119536232_6c5c6ced52_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, we&#8217;ve been to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Twins games (Both losses? Probably. One involved really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9209774938\/\" target=\"_blank\">excellent fireworks<\/a>, though.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9182035217\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pride<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dillinger 4 at Triple Rock<\/li>\n<li>Social Distortion outside on the Cabooze patio<\/li>\n<li>Bowling at the Nook<\/li>\n<li>A couple happy hours<\/li>\n<li>Races at Canterbury<\/li>\n<li>Kayaking and picnicking<\/li>\n<li>A roadtrip that involved:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9232597813\/\" target=\"_blank\">train ride<\/a> across the Minnesota\/Wisconsin border<\/li>\n<li>A visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9227114470\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Bridge Brewery<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An evening in Red Wing (with awesome pizza from Red Wing Brewery)<\/li>\n<li>A night at Treasure Island (with minimal blackjack losses)<\/li>\n<li>Wandering around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/9232587893\/\" target=\"_blank\">on a bluff<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lunch at the most awesome Jamaican bar that just happens to be in Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>All in all, seven border crossings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for succinct?<\/p>\n<p>Two more things: I wrote this review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/travel-tips\/a-travelers-review-of-the-capital-one-venture-rewards-card\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital One Venture Card<\/a>, since I like giving travel advice. (A lot.) Also, we&#8217;re going to Duluth this weekend for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mncraftbrew.org\/events\/allpintsnorth\" target=\"_blank\">All Pints North<\/a>, and staying at Fitgers! We leave tomorrow morning, so I&#8221;m going to go pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think about writing here practically every day (well, except weekends&#8230; I only think about being awesome on weekends), and then every day I&#8217;m stupidly busy during the hours I&#8217;m in front of a computer and the last thing I want to do in my leisure hours is more typing. Not that I&#8217;m complaining about &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=4124\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-list","category-roadtrip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9216470095_0ec1b059fe_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-14w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}