{"id":4489,"date":"2010-12-31T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T02:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2010-12-31T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T02:30:38","slug":"closing-out-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/31\/closing-out-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing out the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4491\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/31\/closing-out-the-year\/picture\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1292443603&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture1-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4491\" title=\"Picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Picture-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So spending this last day of the year on mundane news. The new kitty that adopted us a number of months ago had gotten into some kind of altercation a bit before Thanksgiving. Her injury became ugly just before I left for my Whistler trip, so there was a bit of last second rushing as we wrangled her into a box and I dropped her off at the vet barely an hour before I left for the airport. It turns out the injury was a bit more serious and she required some surgery, but she&#8217;s now been back home for a few weeks and doing fine. She has this funny pom-pom tail from having her butt shaved. She&#8217;s up to her lizard (&amp; one dove) hunting. And just recently looks like now using the litter box I bought when I brought her home. I&#8217;m glad for that. I&#8217;ll be atempting the next task of giving her a worm (or rather de-worm) pill in a few weeks. Vet gave her one a week ago when I stopped by after seeing an oogie wormy thing on her butt. Ah the wonders of pet ownership.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The other mundane thing I was wrapping up was replacing the water heater. The hot water flow was slowing to a trickle in the house and you could hear all kinda of noise from the heater when you ran the hot water. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s all kinda of krust in there. Could attempt to replace elements &amp; anode, but I figured rather just buy a good new heater. It was delivered the next day and installed. Yes, I payed almost as much as I paid for the heater itself to have it installed. Yes, I could have easily installed it myself. But yes, it was easier to pay to have someone muscle it in place, hook it up, &amp; haul away the old one. And no, I didn&#8217;t get the fancy heat pump one, that was just a bit too much coin. It would take years to recoup the cost, although I now see that there are some that come with an option to hook up an air duct to it so you can use it to in effect air condition a space. Hmmm, enclose the garage and air condition it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So spending this last day of the year on mundane news. The new kitty that adopted us a number of months ago had gotten into some kind of altercation a bit before Thanksgiving. Her injury became ugly just before I left for my Whistler trip, so there was a bit of last second rushing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1ap","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}