{"id":22,"date":"2001-01-15T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-15T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=22"},"modified":"2001-01-15T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-15T17:23:00","slug":"22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday morning, and I’m at work in the Toronto office. This is extremely unusual for me for a Monday, now. This is the first Monday that I haven’t been on the road since last March… which is pretty ridiculous.<\/p>\n

I had a fun weekend but a tiring one. My new computer arrived last Friday and most of the weekend was spent setting it up and gaming with a few friends. The game of the moment is <\/a>Counterstrike, which has actually been big for quite a while but is still pretty new for me. If you’ve got Half-Life, you’re all set; the Counterstrike add-on is free at their web site.<\/p>\n

Dell did a good job of getting my machine configured, built and shipped. The only mistake they made was sending me the wrong speakers, and when I called them Friday afternoon to point this out they were quick to fix the problem. Purolator had the right ones to my door this morning, so now I am in quadrophonic heaven. Or will be when I get through the speakers’ 30 page manual and figure out the remote control… (!?!)<\/p>\n

As my friend Dirk commented when I told him about the new machine, this is all clearly more evidence that I need to start dating again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday morning, and I’m at work in the Toronto office. This is extremely unusual for me for a Monday, now. This is the first Monday that I haven’t been on the road since last March… which is pretty ridiculous. I had a fun weekend but a tiring one. My new computer arrived last Friday and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}