{"id":2797,"date":"2004-09-08T05:44:29","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/08\/oh-this-was-just-icky\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:59:05","slug":"oh-this-was-just-icky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/08\/oh-this-was-just-icky\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, this was just icky"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8254,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/adsense&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10270,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310194317\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:43:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 02:24:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 02:24:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Some days, the depths of my own stupidity really amazes me.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, as part of my preparations for going on vacation for a week, I worked on straightening up the apartment a bit, primarily by utilizing the time-honored method of picking up stacks of old mail and papers, dumping them in garbage bags, and taking them out to the dumpster (it&#8217;s not as bad as it might sound &#8212; lots of clutter, very little actual filth &#8212; but my family has a long tradition of never letting any flat space go uncovered for more than about ten minutes, and the piles tend to build up after a while).<\/p>\n<p>This morning, while in the shower, I suddenly realized that I hadn&#8217;t set my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\/\" title=\"Google AdSense\">AdSense<\/a> profit check from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a> aside into a separate pile when I got it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Crap.<\/p>\n<p>Finished my shower in record time, took a look around my apartment, and confirmed my fear &#8212; the check wasn&#8217;t anywhere around.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you, crawling into your apartment&#8217;s dumpster to retrieve your trashbags from the night before &#8212; after other tenants had added their trash bags, not all of which were closed properly, if at all &#8212; and then standing next to the dumpster, ripping them open, and pawing through them trying to find one particular envelope is <em>not<\/em> an enjoyable way to start a day.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, though, not only had the trash not been picked up yet, but I was able to find the check (at the bottom of the second bag, naturally).<\/p>\n<p>Man, that was icky, though.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s just a two-shower morning, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>[![iTunes]] &#8220;I Melt With You&#8221; by Modern English from the album <em>Pillow Lips<\/em> (1990, 3:55).<\/p>\n<p>[iTunes]: http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png {width=&#8221;61&#8243; height=&#8221;15&#8243;}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as part of my preparations for going on vacation for a week, I worked on straightening up the apartment a bit, primarily by utilizing the time-honored method of picking up stacks of old mail and papers, dumping them in garbage bags, and taking them out to the dumpster. This morning, while in the shower, I suddenly realized that I hadn&#8217;t set my AdSense profit check from Google aside into a separate pile when I got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}