{"id":1610,"date":"2007-07-31T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T12:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-with-the-getaway\/"},"modified":"2007-07-31T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T12:19:09","slug":"more-with-the-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-with-the-getaway","title":{"rendered":"More with the getaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another day off, dear readers! Although I have tons of vacation time remaining (14 more days, by official count), I can’t realistically take much time off till November (except for our mini-vacation around Labor Day weekend), because I self-centeredly believe the world will grind to a halt if I’m not in the office.<\/p>\n

So I’ll take today and Thursday off before guilting myself into lots of office-time! Thursday will likely consist of yardwork, once I figure out how best to trim forsythia. There probably won’t be any chainsaw pix.<\/p>\n

Today’s “vacation” will involve a drive into the busiest city in the world, as I roll into NYC to see friends, shop for books, comics and records, and take pix of whatever neighborhoods I visit.<\/p>\n

Which means yet another slideshow. Put up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time for another day off, dear readers! Although I have tons of vacation time remaining (14 more days, by official count), I can’t realistically take much time off till November (except for our mini-vacation around Labor Day weekend), because I self-centeredly believe the world will grind to a halt if I’m not in the office. … <\/p>\n

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