{"id":87614324,"date":"2008-11-17T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614324"},"modified":"2008-11-17T00:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:36:52","slug":"16th-weird-night-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614324","title":{"rendered":"16th: Weird night out there."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a walk to Shoppers and then SuperValu to buy Qtips (it&#8217;s a thing, I just gotsa have my tips, yo), and some newspaper for a little random floor-board cramming, and it was sketchy out there tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I live in the middle of Vancouver&#8217;s West End (well, to be fair, on the East Side of the West End), but wooftie.  I saw the following things in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taser-armed security guard with a bad hat, watching the front door of Shoppers.<\/li>\n<li>Less-than-subtle undercover security floor-walkers.  (Seriously: Who buys a single houseplant at 11:10pm on a Sunday, by yourself?  Didja drop something expensive last time you nabbed some punk stealing a Snickers bar?)<\/li>\n<li>Police takedown of some sort.<\/li>\n<li>Someone watching the takedown from 20ft away, with their hoodie pulled up like the world&#8217;s stupidest ninja.<\/li>\n<li>Another hoodie &#038; backpack guy watching from about 100ft away, sorta-kinda hiding behind a big cube container in the parking lot of the Shoppers while trying to look nonchalant in that &#8220;LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! way only the addicted\/sketched can.<\/li>\n<li>A tipsy dude just about get taken out entirely by a bus, because he was trying to jaywalk in front of it.  Sorta like seeing really bad drivers driving a AutoBody Courtesy Car.  You can see how they got that way, y&#8217;know?<\/li>\n<li>The non-full moon behind mist.  Can&#8217;t blame the moon tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to go put away laundry now, and then off to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Sportball again, I wonder what&#8217;s next?  Hockey?  Bowling?  Robot Wars?<\/p>\n<p>Ripley discovered headphones work in the CD player in his room, which means he can listen to music at a volume above &#8220;The Red Line.&#8221;  Now, he&#8217;s probably trying to figure out if his stereo can somehow get YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went for a walk to Shoppers and then SuperValu to buy Qtips (it&#8217;s a thing, I just gotsa have my tips, yo), and some newspaper for a little random floor-board cramming, and it was sketchy out there tonight. I mean, I live in the middle of Vancouver&#8217;s West End (well, to be fair, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87614327,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614324\/revisions\/87614327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}