{"id":2838,"date":"2004-06-15T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2021-06-03T20:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:43:12","slug":"another-wound-to-my-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/06\/15\/another-wound-to-my-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Wound to My Credit Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    If there’s anything worse than having to buy some overpriced gadget it’s having to buy two<\/i>! Agh, the ignominy!
    I was out taking some photos of storm clouds last week and my digital camera’s battery ran out. I couldn’t find my power adapter anywhere, with which to recharge the Canon’s battery. I searched all over the house but could not find it. I wondered if I might have left it at my brother’s house, from when I’d been taking pictures at my niece’s graduation party. I called him up and he said he’d look for it for me; but the fact he hadn’t spotted it already seemed to suggest it wasn’t there.
    With Father’s Day coming up I’d need to do something quick. I couldn’t just buy another battery since that would only be a temporary solution — I’d be right back where I was in a few days. So I swallowed my pride and ordered another<\/i> Canon CA-560 power adapter. The damned thing cost me ninety bucks too! Plus I spent twenty bucks on 2nd<\/sup> Day Air shipping to insure it would show up before the weekend.
    I fully expect to find the adapter soon after the new one arrives. However, I didn’t know what else to do to insure I’d be able to use my digital camera again.
    I’m such a loser.  \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If there’s anything worse than having to buy some overpriced gadget it’s having to buy two! Agh, the ignominy!    I was out taking some photos of storm clouds last week and my digital camera’s battery ran out. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2840,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}