{"id":351,"date":"2006-09-11T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2006\/09\/good-news-bad-news\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:48:52","slug":"good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/09\/11\/good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news, bad news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with the worst of the bad &#8212; I do not have a Black DS Lite.  Yet.  Today was the <i>shipping<\/i> day, and the store should get them in tomorrow.  Or possibly on the 13th.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s okay, though, because there&#8217;s good news.  I didn&#8217;t return Animal Crossing, so I can continue to get myself hooked on that ever-so-slowly&#8230;assuming Gremlin remembered to turn the little switch on the Gamecube&#8217;s wireless controller to &#8216;off&#8217; when he was done with them.<\/p>\n<p>That might be more bad news.  Kinda sucks, but hey, there&#8217;s more good news&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFastReturn is available in our area.  Yeah, I know, that makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>What &#8216;FastReturn&#8217; basically means is that, somewhere along the line, the USPS scans the games I&#8217;ve returned and GameFly finds out about it, so I get games sent to me while other games are still in transit.  I guess it&#8217;s a way to make up for the fact that they&#8217;re only shipping from some hellishly distant point in California&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Is there any bad news to counter that, other than &#8216;I&#8217;m awake&#8217;?  No, probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, here&#8217;s some.  The weekend got in the way of Netflix, and I&#8217;m stuck in the middle of House MD Season 2 with nothing left to watch until they send me the next discs.  Of course, Desperation just became &#8216;available&#8217;, so they&#8217;re sending me <i>that<\/i> in the middle of this season of House.<\/p>\n<p>That was hardly bad news.  Oh well.  Here&#8217;s something that might not seem like good news, or much of anything: truthisfalse is finally able to visit my site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with the worst of the bad &#8212; I do not have a Black DS Lite. Yet. Today was the shipping day, and the store should get them in tomorrow. Or possibly on the 13th. That&#8217;s okay, though, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2006\/09\/11\/good-news-bad-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-5F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}