{"id":401,"date":"2011-04-08T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viciousgrin.com\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2011-04-08T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T23:05:51","slug":"the-power-outage-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/the-power-outage-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power Outage Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Outage Effect is having the all-consuming urge to heat something in the microwave, charge my phone, or check the internet when the power is out. I&#8217;m having the same effect with the looming government shutdown and associated furlough.<\/p>\n<p>I am potentially about to be without a paycheck and there are things I want to buy. BUY ALL THE THINGS!<\/p>\n<p>There are purchases I wanted to make with my savings\/tax refund to beautify my home and instead I will need that money for exciting things like my mortgage and other house associated bills.<\/p>\n<p>But damned if I don&#8217;t want to be out buying the computer parts I need to fix my other desktop or ordering the furniture I want for the basement. I just know it would be monumentally irresponsible to do so. Ah well, this too shall pass.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of passing things, Congress (hint hint).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Outage Effect is having the all-consuming urge to heat something in the microwave, charge my phone, or check the internet when the power is out. I&#8217;m having the same effect with the looming government shutdown and associated furlough. I am potentially about to be without a paycheck and there are things I want &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/the-power-outage-effect\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,79,49],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odds-and-ends","tag-nerdery","tag-stuff","tag-work","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346,"url":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/from-the-win-files-squishable-android-wookiee-the-chew-tg-app-magnets\/","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":0},"title":"From the Win Files: Squishable Android, Wookiee the Chew, TG App Magnets","author":"Jess","date":"September 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been awhile since I've made a Win Files post. 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