{"id":3642,"date":"2006-01-08T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/08\/whoopssomething-slipped\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:01:30","slug":"whoopssomething-slipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/08\/whoopssomething-slipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops&#8230;something slipped."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7169,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.popastronaut.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250925162400\\\/https:\\\/\\\/popastronaut.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/joeeastham.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 00:14:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 21:57:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:44:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:31:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 00:38:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 00:38:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7170,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000680&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&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;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7171,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00079FUI6%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00079FUI6%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20&amp;link_code=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;path=http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/redirect.html%3fASIN=B00079FUI6%26tag=djwudicom-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\\\/o\\\/ASIN\\\/B00079FUI6%253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7172,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/phobos.apple.com\\\/WebObjects\\\/MZStore.woa\\\/wa\\\/viewTVSeason?id=102808898&amp;s=143441&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;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7173,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000686&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&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;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>And&#8230;we&#8217;re back. The server my site resides on went down about 3pm yesterday, and didn&#8217;t come back until sometime this morning. Sorry &#8217;bout that &#8212; these things do happen from time to time, though.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a customer came wandering into the store. &#8220;Hi there,&#8221; I greeted him. &#8220;Anything we can help you with today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I wanted to look at a couple cameras.&#8221; Then he paused and took a closer look at me. &#8220;Um&#8230;are you Michael? Of Eclecticism?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laughed. &#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Joe &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popastronaut.net\/\" title=\"Pop Astronaut\">Pop Astronaut<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And another connection was made between the online world and real life. We chatted for a bit, then got him set up with the camera he&#8217;d been considering. Small world!<\/p>\n<p>Small bits related to my recent re-acquaintance with television:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000680&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"iTMS: Desperate Housewives\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Desperate Housewives\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/FC101205\/desperateHousewives_120x90.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Last night, Prairie and I finished our <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000680&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"iTMS: Desperate Housewives\">Desperate Housewives<\/a> Season One marathon, which we&#8217;d been working on for the past couple weeks. We&#8217;ve both been enjoying watching Season Two on Sunday nights, and have been borrowing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00079FUI6%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B00079FUI6%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Charles McDougall, Larry Shaw, Robert Duncan McNeill: Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season\">Season One<\/a> so that I could get caught up on all the back story.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewTVSeason?id=102808898&amp;s=143441\" title=\"iTMS: Battlestar Galactica\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a> has started up again also, and I&#8217;ve been doing my best to avoid any articles about the first episode of the second half of Season Two until I get a chance to watch it myself. The episode is sitting on my &#8216;puter&#8230;I just need to get a chance to watch it! Maybe tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000686&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"iTMS: Lost\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Lost\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/FC101205\/lost_120x90.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000686&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"iTMS: Lost\">Lost<\/a> finally starts up again this Wednesday &#8212; and because I&#8217;m working until 10pm that night, I&#8217;m not going to be able to see it until I get a chance to download it! Grrrrr&#8230;stupid work. ;)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I think that pretty much brings us up to date. Plans for tonight are light: work &#8217;til 6pm, do my reading for school tomorrow, have dinner, and watch tonight&#8217;s Desperate Housewives. Non-stop excitement, I tell you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I think that pretty much brings us up to date. Plans for tonight are light: work &#8217;til 6pm, do my reading for school tomorrow, have dinner, and watch tonight&#8217;s Desperate Housewives. Non-stop excitement, I tell you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043,2037],"tags":[671,3246,13,202,8],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-desperate-housewives","tag-life","tag-lost","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","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=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}